Barn quilts are quilt blocks that are typically painted on boards and mounted on barns. If you’ve been on a road trip recently, perhaps you’ve spotted some–they’re popping up all over the country!
Mark Fitzgerald of the Classic Metal Company has seen them too, and they were his inspiration for quilt blocks made from steel. You don’t need a barn to display these beauties. Maybe you admired his barn quilts in Quiltmaker’s November/December ’12 issue. We asked Mark to share a little more about his product:
How did you get started at Classic Metal Company?
An old friend of mine, Ted, invited me to take a tour of a machine shop he was managing. I watched in fascination as his computer-guided laser cutters cut large sheets of thick steel as if they were made of butter.
A short time later, I had a “divine spark of inspiration” to make barn quilts using this process. I had always admired both barn quilts and fabric quilts I had seen, but had no experience with quilting in my family. I made one prototype and showed it to Tami, a co-worker who is a quilter. She gave it her hearty approval and thought other quilters would like them too. After building an on-line store to showcase the barn quilts and attending several regional quilt shows, I was convinced that I should pursue creating barn quilts full time and quit my career of 27 years. It was a great decision–I couldn’t be happier being a part of the quilting community.
What inspired you to make your barn quilts?
After coming up with the initial idea, I thought about how barn quilts were becoming so popular across the country. Most people don’t have barns or don’t want to make a traditional painted wood block, so making it easy for everyone to enjoy the artistry of a barn quilt seemed like a good niche to fill. Having come from a commercial printing and graphic design field, I also enjoyed the beautiful designs I discovered as I started collecting books devoted to quilt block designs.
Can you tell us a little more about the manufacturing process?
First, I create a design for a quilt block in Adobe Illustrator. I have to think in reverse because the parts I draw are the parts that are cut out of the metal. What is left becomes the barn quilt. I then email the design to Ted’s machine shop and he converts my drawings into a language his computer uses to guide the laser-cutter. The barn quilts are cut from 4′ x 6′ sheets of heavy gauge steel.
The barn quilts are then taken to another facility for powder-coat painting. The metal squares are washed several times and then are hung on a conveyer that slowly takes them through a paint booth where they are coated with paint powder. The blocks move through a very hot oven where the paint powder melts and spreads–totally covering the barn quilts for a durable, outdoor finish.
Do you have plans for other block designs and sizes?
I plan to add new designs on a regular basis. Larger 3 and 4 foot sizes have been recently added. I don’t stock many of the larger sizes–at this time they are created as custom orders.
I am also adding napkin holders (or fat quarters) utilizing the barn quilt designs. Many other home decor items incorporating the barn quilt designs are in the design stage and I plan to start introducing them in 2013.
Is there anything else about your barn quilts that you’d like our readers to know?
I attend 6 to 8 regional quilt shows a year and invite quilters to stop by my booth. I really enjoy talking with quilters–they inspire me with their creativity and fun ideas. At a recent quilt show, I learned that one of my barn quilts now adorns an outhouse! My event schedule is listed on my website: classicmetalcompany.com.
Large, 3 foot Mariner's Compass Barn Quilt
Mark has generously supplied five barn quilts of various sizes (including the large Mariner’s Compass barn quilt above) for a Quiltmaker giveaway. To qualify, leave a comment below telling us where or how you would display the barn quilt or suggest a traditional quilt block you would like to see Mark add to his list of designs. Leave your comment by 12 noon MST on Monday, November 26, 2012. We’ll draw five winners at random.
The winners are: Robyn Brown (#33), PaulaK (#66), Dee Davis (#326), Martha Moore (#457) and Judy Johnson (#94). The winner of the large Mariner’s Compass is Donna Amos (#160). Congratulations to all the winners! Thank you everyone who participated!
These are so beautiful. I have a friend that does this type of metal work and I have a name design on my house. Now, I need a Quilt Block design to hang on the garage door!
What a great idea! I’ve wanted to put a barn quilt on the road side of the garage at our lake home. Every year I make a quilt for the Lake Association annual meeting as a door prize, and the folks all know me as ‘the quilt lady.’
These are so cool. I have a spot on the front of my garage that used to hold a basketball net. I think one of these would be much better. How about a Double Wedding Ring Design? Thanks for the chance to win!
They are so beautiful! What an artist! I’d love to see a block of Sister’s Choice. Thank you for the chance to win.
Mary
I have a perfect spot near my front door in our porch. I’ve wanted to hang something there for the longest time!
I’ve frequented Mark’s web page and just can’t decide which design I love the most! I have a 3 story field stone fireplace where a barn quilt design would look just wonderful!
How wonderful these are. I grew up in Pa and had a dear friend in Pa Dutch country. I always envied them such beautiful art. I know just a spot to hang one. First I thought in my sewing room. But that would hide it away from most visitors even though I could enjoy it. I would hang it in my living room to enjoy every day. Since I live in Southwest it would not go well with my roadrunners on the front of the house. Thank you for making such beautiful art. If I could afford to make purchases I would have them all and hang them in my living room to remind me of my friend of 40 years who is no longer with us.
I would hang it outside near my door….or maybe over the fireplace in our living room. Either place would be great.
These are just lovely. I was going to suggest a Carpenter’s star, but that’s essentially the same as the Dutch Rose, so how about an Ozark Star. That would look pretty in a silhouette. Thanks for the fantastic giveaway opportunity.
I would display it on my front porch, very similar to the one pictured in this post. I sometimes will hang a quilt there and get many compliments. Think this would be really wonderful to have. Thanks for a chance to win.
I want one for my front porch! They are awesome! Thanks for the chance to win!
Oh my gosh! I would *love* to win one of these. I would display it right at the front door.
I live in a 55+ community wherein almost all the homes look just alike. Many have used their hobbies as their signatures on the house to give a bit a variety. I would love to have one of these delicious barn hangings to use on the front of my garage door.
No one would wonder if this is the house the quilting lady lives in. Indeed, it is.
What a wonderful chance to win something so special.
I love these. Would it have to be outside? I’d never see it by my front door. Maybe the garage?
Oh wow! These are great! I would display mine in the front of my house.
Love love love!
I love the Americana Star on his website, as well as the Blazing Star.
I would love any star design he wants to do!
How about Cross and Crown? maple leaf. 54-40 or Fight. Providence? Weathervane. Rambler (wild geese in an x diagonally through the block).
I would hang mine, if I won, in my living room/kitchen where the vaulted ceiling meets, or above my stairs where a huge blank wall is waiting!
I just love these they are beautifully created lovely job Mark!! I would make a Cake Stand block and have it on point with 4patches on the boarder. Love love the look it would be a wonderful accessory to the top front of garage where it can be viewed from the street but high enough that it won`t be taken!!
Lovely lovely idea!!
I’d display mine on the front of my house between the living room and dining room windows. Thanks.
HI! THESE ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL! I MIGHT BE TEMPTED TO HANG IT ON THE BARN, BUT IF I WON ONE OF THESE, I’M SURE IT WOULD GO IN MY SEWING LOFT! THANKS FOR SHARING!
Wow Mark’s metal quilt blocks are beautiful. I would hang one on the outside of my quilting studio as it is a small 12′x16′ building and would look perfect on it!! I think I know what to ask for Christmas now
Absolutely love this. I have an empty area between my front kitchen windows. I used to hang a wreath in the winter, but could never find anything extraordinary for the rest of the year. (I want my house to look original.) This is it. Next stop, Mark’s website, so I can put it on my Christmas wish list.
Wow, what a generous giveaway. And they are beautiful. If I won one I would hang it on the house. We just moved, and it has a big area that would be perfect for one. The house it red and green, so the design would show up beautifully. Thanks for a chance.
I have seen these and think they are awesome. I would display it on the front of my house. Thanks for a chance to win one!
Storm at Sea would look awesome!! I slap one right up on the front of my house in my deck area. (ha, ha, my deck spans the whole front!). What a clever idea. Why didn’t I think of that?
Oh my!! This is amazing!!! I would love to display one of these on my house! What a super creative idea!!
I would Love to display this quilt outside at my back door.
“A Quilter Lives Here” You are so talented designing the
blocks to hang. Thanks
I would hang one right over my mantle, they’re lovely pieces of art!
Oh these are just amazing and so eye catching. Just perfect for my sewing room.
Happy days.
Bev C
I love these! I would happily hang one right by my cottage door to let everyone know my favorite hobby! Thank you for the chance!
i have always told my husband that i was going to turn his barn/man cave into my quilting studio. So i think this would be the perfect sign to hang on the outside of the barn.
I have just the spot on the side of my garage where one of these would fit perfectly! Sisters Choice is one of my favorite blocks in honor of my three sisters.
I would love a “shoo fly” block in one of those! Thanks for the chance to get one!
I would definitely hang it outside my front door. Those are so pretty.
I would like to hang one on my porch or in my sewing room.
These are lovely. I would hang it on my garage over the door. My garage is out front and my house is behind so everyone could see it and hopefully know a quilter lives here!
I would hang it on the front porch so everyone would know a quilter lives here. As if they didnt already know….. or perhaps my hubby would let me hang it on the shed near the road, since the driveway is half a mile long.
Since I hope to be moving to a farm soon, I would display one on the side of a new barn!
Ooo, I’d love to have one of those and I’d put it on the eve of my house. I’m a rabid quilter, proud of it, and could share my love with others if I had one of those metal quilt blocks to display.
Beautiful! I would display a barn quilt on the side of the house where I have a little garden/sitting area. I can imagine spending some quality quiet time rocking and admiring the barn quilt.
Hey Mark!
The Barn Quilts are so beautiful! Looks like you put alot of time and effort in to them! I love the look of the metal works! We live in a country style home and any of your works would be right at home here! I think the Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Sam would be cute in the metal work,too.
I like flying geese. Could those be made into medal work? I could put in on the side of my house where my deck is.
I love the barn quilts. Would hang it right on the front of my house so everyone in the neighborhood could enjoy it along with me.
It’s time to retire our unused basketball hoop from the garage and give it a quilty upgrade! Thanks for the chance.
I’ve seen barn quilts but never metal quilts. I would love to hang one over my garage door. Thanks for the chance to win one!
These are great! I’d love to put one on my porch right by my front door.
What a great idea to make them from metal! I would hang one above my garage door.
I would love to win one of these beauties! I would hang it on the shed in my yard, right where I could see it from the kitchen window. I’m working on a card trick quilt now, wonder how that block would work in metal?
I would love to display one of these on my garage, just above the door. Would be so nice there! Or, I have a blank space on my wall at work that I could hang one….Hmmm….decisions…
I love star blocks, so would love to see a friendship star or New York Beauty in a barn block.
Thanks!
These quilt blocks are fantastic. I have the perfect spot for one on the side of our garage.
Since we recently moved, I would put it beside my front door. They are just beautiful!
I would put it up on my gable which just happens to be my sewing room!!!
I love these. I met Mark at the Des Moines AQS show, and bought a small Mariner’s compass to hang above my husband’s train sign by our house numbers. I would love to win a larger one to put up in the front of the garage.
I would be so excited to win this. I have a “Southern front porch” with a swing. I would hang a quilt lock there.
I have cathedral ceilings making my walls very tall. I think I could find a wall that a barn quilt would look very nice on since I don’t have a barn. I am a city girl.
Those are gorgeous…I have NO idea where I would put one, but I’d certainly find a space if I won one!
Wonderful pieces! I would put mine on the side of my lake home near the window of my sewing room (aka the guest bedroom). Thanks for the chance at a wonderful giveaway.
We have a barn, but it’s back in the field. If we win, think we should hang our barn quilt above the garage door where will be real obvious. Or, finally my mother will let me hang something on the wall behind the dining table as we are both quilters. That is a prominent spot too. Both are proper locations to display this lovely metal quilt.
Oh I love these! My two favorite things -quilts and metal work! I would probably put this on my new front porch next to my new front door!
I love the Ohio Star in Black. It would look great on my screened in back porch. Thanks for the giveaway.
I loved these the first time I saw them. I have wanted to paint our garage door with a quilt block, but my DH said NO!. When I showed him these he said it would be perfect on the front of the house. They are just striking. Thank you for the chance to win one.
I would place the quilt block right outside my quilt room door. It has a set of French doors that leads to the outside. Oh how very, very special! Everyone would know a quilter lives here!
I would display the quilt block over my garage door — just in case any of the neighbors do not know I am a quilter.
Oh, they are stunning! I would put it on my front porch..i have the perfect spot! Thank you for a lovely giveaway.
I would love to display one of the squares in my Mom’s room in a skilled nursing facility. She shared her loving of quilting with me, and now that I’ve truly been ‘converted’ into a quilter (after her years long efforts) I’d like to gift her back with a lasting symbol of the wonderful creativity she opened up to me.
I have a wall between my kitchen and my family room that one of these would look perfect on. They are so beautiful.
Fantastic! I would hang one near my back door so my “back door” friends can see it when they come to visit! I have the perfect spot in mind! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I have light concrete walls all around my patio and one of these blocks would really look nice out there!
Beautiful! I would probably hang it over the fireplace.
Oh those are neat! I’d put it on the back of my house, where I have a nice little patio going on that I do my sewing on in the summer! Thank you for the giveaway.
Pingback: Barn Quilts for Your Home + Giveaway | Quilty Pleasures Blog | How To Quilt
I love these metal quilts. If I had one I would put it on the side of my barn shaped storage unit where it can be seen from two streets. A block that I think should be added to the collection is Noonday.
I would display a barn quilt on my porch. Thank you for a chance to win. Janita
Absolutely gorgeous! I would try to display a barn quilt above our garage door – pending hubby’s approval! I think Churn Dash would be a striking design. Thanks for the chance to win!
Wow! Amazing art. How about a Dresden Plate block?
If I won one, I would probably pass it on to my daughter who has a more farmhouse-y house with more non-windowed walls. Though if I kept it, it could go IN a window.
I recently had a deck built and had the builder add an Ohio Star to the floor by the door. Wouldn’t it be great to hang on on my house?
These barn blocks are so beautiful. I love to put it at my garage door. I love to see traditional blocks such as churn dash or pin wheel
We’re going to be rebuilding our garage shortly after the Christchurch earthquakes destroyed the original one, the new building will include a studio for me and I’d put it on the wall of that part of the building.
I would definitely put one of these on the front porch of the brand new home we are building in central Washington.
These are really nice! I would put one on the side of our shop – highly visible from the street! LOL!
These are beautiful. I think a block would make a nice decorating item in my garden.
I would love to win one of these. I have several places on my house where one could be used depending on the size. It will absolutely have a place of honor – now the decision – let the neighborhood enjoy it or hang it in a more private outdoor space where I frequent? Decisions, decisions – I’ll accept this hardship with graciousness and gratitude should I be lucky enough to win. Now, off to check out the website and their schedule – hopefully they will be coming to an area near me.
What beautiful quilt designs!!! There is a spot above our front door that would be perfect to display one of them. Our son was learning how to do the metal art until he had a stroke 2 years ago. Now we’re hoping someday he’ll be able to continue. This might give him inspiration!! Continue the good work.
I love these quilts! Not sure where I’d put one, though it would probably end up in the house so I could see it often. Thanks for another great chance to win.
I would love to hang one of these by my front door–they are beautiful! I think a Celtic knot would look great made up into a metal quilt block.
These are cool. I especially like the mariner’s compass. I have a spot on the side of my house that would be perfect.
I love this. Thanks for sharing this information.
Oh, my. I live in Utah, the land of quilting. I would hang one on the front of my house and be the envy of the neighborhood. What beautiful work!
I would display my barn quilt right next to my front door. I have a space that has a large star right now but the star is kind of boring. I would suggest a volume 6 block that is on the cover, I don’t know the name but have been noticing it, it is the fourth row down and the 3rd over, it’ s very intricate. Thanks. Vivian
I love these. I would like to see a log cabin block. I leave in a log cabin. I would put it on my house.
These are absolutely fabulous! We have a couple of barn quilt trails in our state. They are wonderful to tour, but I have not seen these beauties. I would love to have one for my house. Mark has done my three favorite blocks. I’m not sure how he would do it, but one using a series of flying geese would be really cool. Thank you for the great giveaway. Tamsyn
I love these barn quilt blocks and have just the right spot for one.
I know these are designed for outside….but I have a wall in my hallway that is 2 stories high and is just begging for something BIG but not overwhelming…..I think one of these would be perfect! Thank you for the chance to win one! (The hallway can be seen from the kitchen, dining room and living room, and the empty spot is just over the bathroom door, so it’s not like it would be hidden)….
I’m in the UK and we don’t have barn quilts! I’ve never seen one in real life but I’d love one on the end wall of my barn!!
I have a large old house with a peak just calling out for a “barn quilt”. A reward for those who remember to look up!
I would put one on the front of my house next to the front door so I could see it every time I came home. I think I would have to also put one on the side of our big shed in the back yard so i could see if every time I looked out the back window. They are just beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful! Something that I can relate to as a quilter, it has meaning and is tangible in my world.
These are beautiful and I would hang them on my fireplace mantel
Beautiful! I would love to hang any one of those quilts next to my front door. Quilter living here! Or I’d hang it on my privacy fence in the backyard, so I could see it every time I used the kitchen sink. Decisions, decisions! Thanks for the chance to win!
These barn quilts are beautiful! Living in the country, a barn quilt would fit in just perfectly on the side of our house or garage.
Thanks for the clear explanation of the process. I really like the metal blocks better than the painted ones — think they would hold up to weather much better. We have both a cottage and a home and I would love to have one to hang on either one.
I would love to have a barn quilt to display in our school library to go along with some storybooks on quilting. My favorite design is the Mariner’s Compass.
Simply stunning!
I’d love to see a Flying Geese (Goose Chase) and a Ocean Waves (Storm at Sea) blocks.
I have a ‘thing’ for geese, and I’m a Navy Mom (Mariner’s compass is nice, but the Sea is where the heart is).
Thanks for the chance to win.
I plan to get one of these for my sister for her birthday. Not sure yet which design, bu she has the perfect place to display one of these. They live in the country and her garden room ‘needs’ one. And if I buy her one, I will have to get one for me. I go with the one for you, one for me type of buying when I can.
These are beautiful! I have been trying to choose designs for 2 small barn quilts to go on my new shed doors. I also returned from Kentucky yesterday where we saw barn quilts all over the state. They were amazing. I would place one of these “barn” quilts next to my front door.
These are beautiful, I have wanted one ever since I seen them advertised in a magazine. I would hang one near by backdoor to greet all our hunting guests that come and stay at our place. Looking foreward to seeing the napkin holder.
Carol L
I really like the “clean” look of these metal barn quilt blocks. And I think that traditional quilt blocks, rather than modern ones, would look best in this two-color medium. How about Jacob’s Ladder? He could put four smaller motifs together to make a balanced block.
Beautiful!!! A year ago we moved out in the country to a farm. I would love to have a metal block hanging on the barn! I´ve always loved Jacob´s Ladder, so that´s a traditional block I´ll suggest
Gun, Sweden
I love barn quilts. I would place it on our barn.
These are so cool! I would hang one in my quilt studio where I can admire it each and every day!
I saw these at a quilt show recently. I have two places I might hang one if I won. One would be on my porch near my front door or I have peak on my house where a block would look nice. thanks for a chance to win one.
I would display it by my front door, or by my patio. I think Jacob’s Ladder would be a nice addition.
I would hang it next to my front door. These are beautiful. Thanks for the chance to win!
I would hang one of these on my garage. My mother (who lives with me) and I are both quilters and have talked of painting a quilt square on the garage for years but have never done it. This would give us what we want without the effort. Thanks for the chance to win one!
These would look great inside or outside.
If I were lucky enough to win, I’d put the barn quilt on my deck outside my office window!
OMG!! These are fabulous!! I would ahve it in my 2 story entryway/foyer. love it!!
They are wonderful. I would love to put one on a wall that surrounds my garden.
These are so beautiful! I think above the fireplace. It doesnt have to be outside does it? ; )
I would love to see a Grandmother’s Flower Garden barn quilt and I would display it in my bay window with lights shining on it.
Wow! What an awesome give-a-way!!!!! I would proudly display this beautiful piece at the front of my quilt studio (The Creaky Knee Quilt Studio) and it would invite in my friends and fellow quilters. What a wonderful addition that would be…..
These are really cool! I would love to have several of them lined up on my wooden fence so that I could see them every day from my sewing room and Family room.
Ohio star 8 pointed star , sunbonnet sue, nine patch. And it d go right beside the door for all to see and admire.
I’d place it in my sewing room above my machine, next to the cross-stitch my sister made for me that states “a needle in the hand is worth two in the couch.” Mark’s strongly designed art would be a constant reminder to find the depth and beauty in my own work.
I saw these designs at Madison quilt expo. I have the perfect spot over my garage doors underneath the window.
Oh, I love the barn quilts. Thanks for the chance to win one.
I would really like a Quilt Block to hang on my house. I have a perfect spot on my garage.
This definitley would spark up my front porch. I think a double wedding ring is a popular pattern and would be a popular item.
I have a quilt buddy who NEEDS that Bear Paw one to hang on her Studio! I would want a FAN or Dresden plate. I would hang it by my front door, to show everyone I’m a Quilter, as if they don’t already KNOW. Thanks to QM, and being a Tester for VOL 5 and 6. Love seeing my quilt in there!
I would display something this beautiful on my house letting everyone know there is a quilter here. Maybe even one in my sewing room about my cutting table for inspiration.
I would place outside, by my pottery studio/kennel door, or inside on my livingroom wall.
Garrett County, in western MD, has created its own Quilt Barn Trail, with a dozen or rustic barns displaying painted blocks and a published guide to aid natives and tourists interested in exploring this beautiful rural, mountainous area; it also has begun its own autumn quilt show/festival. We own a vacation home in that area, and I am an avid quilter. I have often wondered how I could display my support for the Tail effort, as will as highlight my own passion, to friends and passers-by. Being chosen to receive one of these marvelous metal blocks, to display on the side of our home, would be AWESOME!!!
I love the metal barn quilt. I am sure I could find someplace to hang it, probably in the fenced backyard, as I wouldn’t want anyone to take it.
I would love to display the metal barn quilt on my front porch! Thanks for the opportunity to enter your wonderful giveaway.
A three foot square would fit perfectly between my bedroom windows on the front of my house, then no one would be able to miss us because my house numbers are behind a tree!
Love these barn quilts & I would hand one either by my back door or over the garage door.
Those are beautiful! Last year, I finally took the plunge and bought a house with a little garden shed I’m converting into my “quilting shack”. A barn quilt would be the perfect touch!
LOVE your metal barn quilts. Would also LOVE to have one……:)
Wow, beautiful and a very inspiring story. I would display it proudly on my front door for anyone to enjoy.
I would display it on the little barn shed of the new house we are buying. It has a beautiful backyard and patio. A barn quilt would help make this “my” home! I am from a Kansas farming community but now live in Iowa. I went to Mark’s booth at the AQS show in Des Moines and saw these metal barn quilts for the first time. Our present home has vinyl siding and I didn’t know how we could hang anything on it. It won’t be a problem at the next house.
I’ve been looking for the perfect piece of art to display on my fireplace wall. Since I’m a quilter, I would love to have a quilt square to place there. Thanks for the opportunity. Love ‘em.
The metalworks art is beautiful and very popular.
Thank you, Mark and Quiltmaker!
I have one by my front door and it looks great. One on my garage would complement it perfectly. I would love to see the Missouri Star added to the line up.
I could have at least 3 of them! They are very, very nice for this long time quilter! One could go on the porch, one on the house by the main entrance, and one in my newly designed sewing room. My preference is the traditional designs of Ohio star, bear paw, square in a square, and log cabin.
Love them, saw them at show earlier this year, would be really neat to win one.
I would love to have one to hang on end of house that you see when coming down street. I’m the last house on dead end road but house sets square with other houses on street so no one sees front of house unless they come up driveway. Have been thinking about painting 2′x2′ piece of plywood as Seven sisters quilt block to hang there.
I have the ideal spot to display one of these barn block decorations. We have a long drive leading from the road down to our garage & house. The end of the garage can be seen perfectly as you drive in & it already has hooks there where someone had something else hanging at one time! It would look awesome!! I think it would be fun to see a pinwheel block as well!
I live in a 55+ community and we have several quilters in the neighborhood. I would love one of these to put on my front wall by the garage for all to see!!!
Love the Mariners Compass. I have a beautiful garden bench that would lovely together. The bench is a peachy color with a butterfly back. I have seen these metalworks art around. Thanks for the opportunity to win one of these!
I have quilts hanging all through my house so one of these would fit right in! I would probably hang it above my fireplace. These are so beautiful & I would love to have one.
I have been wanting one of hese for my house and my garage ! Love them !
I would hang on The outbuilding so I could see it every day. They are beautiful.
Love these! Since retiring my husband and I have traveled quite a bit and we’ve been bringing home things that we call fence art to decorate our yard – memories of our travels and things we like. I think a quilt block is perfect because I’ve been a quilter for almost 40 years.
I have seen these metal barn quilts at two shows I have attended and they are great. I was not able to purchase one at either show, but I have a gardening shed and one of these would look spectacular on the side of it.
I would love all of these they are all unquie and I love every one of them. I have the perfect spot for anyone I would get. I already have serval things made out of the metal. LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!
These are beautiful!!!! As to where I would put one……well, by the back door since that is where we come in through. But right above my sewing table would be another good spot. Hummmm, just might have to think about 2 of them.
I would place the design over my front room window so that everyone approaching the house could see it. I found one I liked and placed it over the garage door and everyone says it is perfect. I am always looking for something unique.
Id put it on the front of the house so everybody passing by would know a quilter lives here. Neat items!
I have long admired the barn quilts in the North Carolina mountains where we have a weekend home. We are going to build on to the house and move there permanently some day, and I would love to have one of Mark’s barns displayed on it!
I love these, what a great idea! Love to have one of these on my front porch by my swing! Maybe bring it in sometimes to be able to enjoy more
Beautiful!
I have wanted to put up a barn quilt on the outside of my house for a long time.
I am a long arm quilter and have customers who bring their quilts right to my home. It definitely would make finding my house much easier since most of the homes on my street look alike! I would suggest a barn quilt with a Feathered Star block as my favorite.
A spot over my garage door, next to the road, would be a perfect place to show off these great pieces of work and show that we love quilting. I would like to see a Churn Dash pattern sometime. It is an old pattern and everyone recognizes it.
They are great ,I sit on my porch almost every day doing my paper pieces hexagons so if there is a Grandmothers Garden it would be just delightful XXX
I would love to have a large barn quilt for my garage. It would be displayed facing the street, so everyone driving by could see it.
My DH and I are going to be moving back to IL and looking for a new home soon and I would love to have one of the beauty metal barn quilt blocks to adorn our new home.
My new neighbors will know I am a quilter.
The quilt blocks are fantastic. I would hang two on either side of the front door.
Oh, I lOVE these! I would display it above the garage doors!
I love all the patterns. I really like “sisters choice” I would make a wonderful gift to give my sister for Christmas.
I absolutely love the Mariner’s Compass…I can see that on the wall above my fireplace!
Wonderful! I would love to see Carpenters Wheel in this material.
I have been searching for a barn quilt to put on my garage. This would be perfect.
I don’t have a barn- but it would be the perfect greeting for visitors to my front porch!
I am building a new home and would love to proudly display one of these barn quilts so my new neighbors know I am a quilter.
I would give it to my sister and it would wonderful outside her front door or over her garage door.
A wonderful addition to any landscape or outside design. This will look great on my front porch with the white rockers.
I have been loving barn quilts for a while and have plans to make a sampler to surround the barn shed door. I knew it would take forever, but I could use the beautiful metal squares to add to the sampler. Wouldn’t it be gorgeous to see a mix of metal and painted quilt blocks in the yard?! I can’t wait. Please please please!
Ive been looking at these but I am hoping Santa would bring me one. I so live on a farm with a barn also a housetrailer quilting haven. Please please Santa.
I have seen the paintings on barns in my travels, it would be great to have one to hang in my house.
Thank you for a chance to win.
I love these, as I love anything metal!! I don’t have a barn, but it would look lovely on the side of my shed behind my garden!!
I have a beautiful white home and detached garage that both face the main road in my neighborhood. I would love to be able to display one of these lovely pieces of art! P.S. I am a quilter too!
Oh, this would look so good above my garage door. Please, pick me.
Ohhhh! I love these! I can’t suggest any particular block to add to the collection. The current ones are just so lovely! I’d love to see more. I would hang mine on the fence in your backyard so we could enjoy it when we are birdwatching. Or, maybe on the front wall near the garage?? The possibilities are endless! Love them!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE each of these beautiful works of art! Live in Texas where there are lots are barns even though I don’t have one myself. Would love to display one of these on my house! Hope you chose me!!
Quilting is my passion and I love showing off my quilting creations. I would love to have one of Mark’s quilts on my shed out back where I love to sit and enjoy the joys of my backyard. Thanks for the giveaway.
I’ve always adored barn quilts, and as a quilter the are a great source of inspiration for me. If I won I would hang this lovely metal replica on my small barn style metal building, that I have converted into a quilt’s work shop to house my long arm quilter and frame. Thank you ever so much for this opportunity to own my own piece of quilting history.
Those are awesome! I would like one on my house, it would look so cool!
I would hang it on the outside of my house, I have a big barn star already… so it would go nicely!
The ironwork is beautiful. If I were fortunate enough to win I would hang this on an exterior wall near my patio where I could be inspired each time I sat out there!
I would hang this on the very front of my house. Thanks for the chance to win.
i love the idea of iron quilts!! Fabulous! I would display your work on the stone side of my home or stone fireplace – fits with my Eric Sloane love of nature and craftmanship
Oh my ….. what an awesome prize! I would display the quilt block on my garage (since I don’t have a barn)! I would like to see a Dresden plate on Mark’s list.
Windward Square either on the front of our storybook house or at the farm house. greeting everyone who comes into the yard. Thank you. CB
driving through Iowa this fall, i saw alot of these. i would LOVE to win one & Nov 26th is my dad’s 82nd birthday LOL but I am going to buy one anyways I live in Phx so it will be fun to have one on my house hahaha Anyone who know me knows i love to quilt so what would they expect ?
TOTALLY awesome Mark
I would put one on the side of the garage at my moms. I’m going to paint the wall blue and that way she will have something nice to look at when she’s out there with her doggy Hansi.
Today was my first time to see this beautiful work out of metal. I have seen pictures of the painted blocks on barns, and have always wanted one on my house… but I think I would put one of these on my shed because…I see my shed out the window that I sit next to when I am working on the old sewing machine. That way, I would see it daily!
A few years back, I stepped out my back porch to go to work, heard this beautiful sound, looked up at the sky. It was completely covered with geese and looked like sparkling diamonds as they flapped their wings in the sunshine. I stopped in awe and the scene brought tears to my eyes, beautiful……..so, I think a block of flying geese would be special!!!
When I saw these in your ad in Mary Jane’s Farm – I knew I needed one for my house!
I love barn quilts! I would proudly display one of these right by the front door on my house.
Love these!! Would love to have one on my house!! Have seen them in your magazine and admired them…
HI!!!!
I love metal work. What an AWESOME idea to represent our quilting hobby.
I would sooooooo love a Mariner’s Compass to place beside our door outside to watch over all family and friends who enter and leave our door..to wish them a safe journey on all their travels within the home and on this planet earth.
Blessings and Hugssssssssss to all on your journey.
Kath
The side of our garage faces the road and would be perfect for this. Thanks for the chance!
My name kim Patrick I enjoy read your comment. I am deaf and trying to find beautiful garden to decorated quilt garden. I found Jim shore wishing well, and 2 butterfly because Jim shore did quilt patterns and now your is bigger. Would love that in my yard with country flower! Hope I can win.
The Mariners Compass is a great looking quilt block. I am called a navigator so the Mariners Compass is perfect. Plus I love the Seattle Mariners. This would look great on my veranda. I think a pinwheel or lone star would be great. Thank you.
It would look great on the back garage. I live on a corner lot and everyone will see it. I am a longarm quilter and It will help direct customers to my home…Thanks for the chance to win.
We have 30 quilt barn blocks in our county. I have painted on all of them. Don’t have one for my home. Would like to display one on my fence. They are beautiful in metal too.
Every block has a story and I have learned so much helping Barn Owners select their block for their barns.
It would be so much fun to actually design a breast cancer block to hang in the perfect place on the front of my house. This would be perfect to honor my Grandmother and younger sister. Both ladies survived breast cancer for several years but my sister lost the fight just 2 years ago after 17 years. She was the toughest fighter ever!
This would look incredible on my house. Already have a quilting license plate holder.
We live about 8 miles from the nearest town… I have been wanting to try to paint me a barn quilt for what seems like ages. Had a lot of sickness/death in our family so it keeps being put on the back burner. Would love one of these to put on our little red barn since it seems I can’t ever get one started. Would be the only one anywhere near here and they are BEAUTIFUL! Would surely attract everyone’s eye!
This is the first I’ve seen a metal barn quilt. I have the perfect place on the front of my house for one- – Then everyone could enjoy it!
These are beautiful! If I was lucky enough to win one I’d hang it in my dining room so I could look at it every day. I think a Pennsylvania Tulip would be pretty.
One of these will look lovely in my living room as a focal piece.
Beautiful!! How great it would be to have one of these on the side of our home!
These are SO COOL!
I would like to put that metal quilt block right above my front door, for all the world to see
Like everyone doesn’t know a quilter lives here?????
I just love the Mariner’s Compass … I would proudly display it on my patio for all to see … as it guides one through life. I like that thought & these are just beautiful!
I have seen these wonderful works of art in magazines. I thought they would be lovely on my house. I to am having a hard time deciding which ones to buy. Simply love them.
I grew up on a dairy farm with a big barn. Now I live on main street in a small town. I would hang a barn quilt by my front door for the whole town to see.
We have a taller garage that faces a busy street. I would like to put one there so many people can enjoy it.
I would love a block in my new outdoor space. Maybe a star or log cabin block!!
What a brillant idea. As a long arm quilter fI would have it on the front of my house. My brain is buzzing for other ideas to use these for. WOW i really love these.
One of these would be so awesome displayed on the front of my house. I know that a few neighbors know I quilt, but I want others to know it too. In the past I had hung some wall hanging size quilts in the bay window, but the sun started fading them, so I no longer display them. This type of quilt block, no matter the design, would let it be known far and wide…”a quilter lives here.”
OOOO, one of these would look awesome in my family room! It’s hard to find anything the right scale for a room with 14′ ceilings. (Whose idea was that?!!?!??) And another one would look perfect above the garage door. How many can we win?
I love Mark’s barn quilts – what a great idea! I’d love to display the barn quilts in my garden so I can enjoy them everyday.
These are soooo cool!! I’d hang one on the cinder block wall I see from my sewing room!!
These are sooo beautiful!! I love the star block. It would look just right on my front porch wall along my garden/sidewalk!!! I’d be proud to show it off, always.:)
I’d get the Mariner’s Compass block (in fact it is on my wish list) as it is my husband’s favorite block. We are between homes right now, but it will look wonderful by the front door of our new home.. wherever that will be.
I would display the barn quilt right on the side of my house, so that folks driving by could enjoy it. Right now, I have a folk art star hanging there but the barn quilts so appeal to me. They are beautiful.
I would proudly display one of these barn quilts on the front of my home. They are beautiful!
I would also display on the front of my house so it could be seen far and wide. Lovely work, good idea
Mariner’s compass for me! I would give it a beautiful home on my wall covered with green vine (as a background fabric) By my mermaid fountain. They are beautiful!
I live in a farmhouse style house on top of a mountain and would LOVE one of these to hang on one of my outside walls! It would be perfect since I am a quilter! Thanks for the chance! These are beautiful!
This would really dress up the boring wall of the garage which faces our backyard pond! I like the Dutchman’s puzzle block. Has he ever considered doing a two-tone finish?
I live on a farm and would display on my house!
I think I would hang mine in the house. It would be very pretty on my barn, but I’d put it in the living room!
Would love ti hang this on my house and let everyone that I am a quilter.
These are lovely. Whenever I go to Tenn I have to do the barn quilt loops there to view all the quilt squares on the barns. I would display one of these on the side of our garage that faces the street. My quilting is one of the most important things in my life. It just makes me happy!
Possibly a Friendship Star design. This would signify the friendliness of the hosts for all of their visitors. We have other wrought iron touches in our living room, so one of your pieces would meld them all together. Your work is beautiful!
Beautiful. What a great job.
I would use it/display it with “myself” on my mother in law’s front porch swing!!
What a great idea! I have the perfect spot to hang it next to my front door. Have you thought of trying a pineapple block?
I love these! If I had one I would hang it over the garage doors. Any type of star block would be a great one.
Lovely! I would post on my detached Garage facing my little tiny backyard… Thanks for the opportunity to win this fantastic piece of art!
By my front door
One of these would be so cool on the porch of the retirement cottage we are preparing to move into.
I have seen these and love them! I have the perfect spot for one on my so-ugly-it’s-cute wonky shed!
I bought one in Des Moines and lost it in my studio fire. sure could use a new one to post on my (almost) finished new studio!
Oh, I would definitely display it outside! It would be by my backdoor, which is the one I use all the time so I can see it.
I would so much like one of these to place on my quilt studio!!!!!!!
Wow! I would have to display it on one of my walls to go with my “farm” theme.
Adding a Friendship Star block, a Baltimore Album applique block, Tumbling Block, or a Log Cabin Block. And I still want this on the outside of my quilt studio to announce to the world “Quilting Spoken Here!”
I have just the right spot for a barn quilt ornament…right in the top middle of my 2 car garage! Ohhh…yeah!!! Thanks sew much for this chance to win!
I like them so much if I win it would hang in my sewing room.
What a lovely idea. I would love to have the LeMoyne Star on my veranda. I think the road facing wall will be the best place to display barn quilts.
Oh my – I would love to hang one of these INSIDE my house – in my craft room ideally but above our headboard in our bedroom would also be lovely. I would love to see some of these done with Celtic knotwork patterns.
I think they are wonderful. I would put one on the front of my house, but I would also like one to go on the front of my garage. I love traditional blocks. Thanks for doing this. Deb A
I would display it on my bed. Awesome!
AWESOME! We just bought a new house overlooking Lake Tahoe & has a very “cabiny” feel. I may need 2! One for outside & one for my sewing room wall – thanks for sharing!
I love your barn quilt designs. My fave is the bear claw/paw design. I would like to
hang on my fence in town as I don’t have a barn. The house I grew up in did have a
wonderful barn, but it now belongs to someone else.
I have seen these as well and would love one to display above my garage door or on my garden shed for my neighbors to see how much I love quilting!!
So love this idea! Can we make requests for patterns we would like to see in the future? I have a big barn and lots of ideas. I would hang the first one in my sewing room as the perfect decor. Would love to win one of your Barn Quilts. Do you use copper? Cindy bluemoonstencils@yahoo.com
Oh I really want one of these and I have just the place. Right on my house high up where everyone can see it. I even can get it put up when the siding guys come and repair the siding that is “Gone With The Wind” of Sandy! I love all of them!
The barn quilts are fabulous! How great that it can be hung outside and it will weather all the elements. I love he mariner’s compass and the bear claw, but they are all striking. Any of them would have a perfect happy spot on the side of our garage. Ideas for other patterns might be broken dishes or churn dash. Thanks very much for the opportunity to win!
I’m always thrilled when a man sees the beauty of quilt blocks–yeah, Mark!! My house has white siding and there is a place next to my door where a metal block would be perfect. However, now that I think about it, I’m not sure I could hang it outside–I would want to keep it in perfect condition!
Oooh, I love the Ohio Star. I’d display it on our back deck or next to the back door during the summer & fall. I don’t think I could keep it outside during our midwestern winters.
These are so beautiful! I absolutely love quilts! The Mariners Compass is particularly beautiful and I would display it on the front of my house. Thank You for sharing your talent, and for the chance for some of us to win one.
I’d display it on my new red barn!
We have a barn-like shed in our backyard, roughly the same size as the one in your final photo. That’s where I’d display my quilt block, where I could see it every time I look out the window!
These are just beautiful! What a talent! I would love to give one to my sister. She and her husband bought a second home down in Uma Arizona, her husband had just retired and he had been sick off and on for a few years. He was able to breath better in Arizonas climate. They planed on spending time there when ever they could get away. About 6 months after purchasing the home she lost her husband to chrones disease. He has been gone a year now, she did keep the home after contemplating whether or not to keep it. There is a shed right next to the house, a double wedding ring design would be perfect hanging in the front of the shed, it’s beauty would not go unappreciated.
My absolute favorite quilt block is the Mariner’s Compass. If I won any of the barn quilts, it would go front and center over my French doors to my studio!
The metal quilt blocks are just gorgeous. I would love to put one on my front porch.
I would so love to put the Lone Star block in my back yard next to my Texas sign!
It would add tremendously to my family’s fun! Hope I win!
Love the Blazing Star! I’d love to put it on our little wood cabin.
I love these! There is a spot above my garage door yhat is beggin’ for one of these
These are really nice!! I would hang one by my front door!
What wonderful creations! I would have a barn quilt right smack on the front of my house, I would want it seen by all! Thanks so much for the chance at the give-away!
Does this come in my favorite “Frienship Square”? These are wonderful and would look great on the fence of an acreage. Even though we have only three acres our barn cannot be seen from the road.
I would love to put one between our front door and windows. I love them!!!
asked my nephew if he could add a couple of these in to a trellis design. for my climbing vines in my garden
I am in love with these blocks. I have the perfect place on my family room wall. There are many fabulous blocks and I think the Ohio star block is classic barn style
Those are beautiful!!! I would love one to hang in my sewing room.
Thanks so much for the wonderful giveaway.
These are truly a work of art and amazing in their beauty. Thank you so much for your willingness to share them. I have the perfect spot for one on the flower garden fence facing the street for all to admire!
I have the perfect spot on my new patio to hang a barn quilt!!! I would love to have one!!!
If I won of these cool blocks it would either end up on my Mom’s porch or I would back it with something colorful and put it in my room.
I’d hang this on the porch by the front door.
I think one would look terrific on my front deck!
Thanks for the chance to win one.
I would hang it on my house so I could “share” it.
I’d hang it on the front of my 125 year old home. It would be perfect! Thanks for the chance to win such an incredible prize.
These are really beautiful. I was going to suggest a Double Wedding Ring. That would look pretty in a silhouette. Thanks for the fantastic giveaway opportunity.
I probably would use it in my back patio. that is where we are when the weather is nice, I can also see it from the window in my sewing room. These are way cool.
What a wonderful giveaway!!! Thankyou so much. We’re in the process of buying a new home and I have the perfect spot for one!!! Right on the front wall of the house near the front door….Perfect!!!
Thanks again! Jan
I like these as they announce “A quilted lives here.” I have the perfect spot for one.
The Mariners Compass is beautiful. I would place one of your art works on the front of my house.
Beautiful! I would have to display it in my living room next to my quilt rack on the wall.
Love the compass and I would put it on my barn of course!
I would proudly display the block in the center of the peak above my two garage doors, I guess the Christmas wreath will have a new home each year if I win.
We actually have a real barn in rural Ohio! Even though it’s out in the country, it’s on a major road, and we get lots of traffic….I know one of these quilt designs would garner TONS of publicity….thanks for the chance to win!
This is a great giveaway. Would be nice to have one of my building for customers to see.
Saw these at a quilt show and have regretted not buying
Some ever since. As soon as my studio is finished being painted,
I want the metal blocks on my building. I live in the country and I
think my studio would be the perfect setting for a classic metal quilt block
I would be happy to start my collection by winning one
I live in a historical village with a covered bridge one of these quilt blocks would look so beautiful on my barn ,i’ve seen them addvertised and really want one but can’t afford it yet due to job loss. thankyou for the chance to win!!!
Love these quilt blocks! I saw them at the AQS show in Paducah. I bought one there but you can never have too many! Hope I win!
Wonderful artwork! I’d love to hang one on the front of my home.
What beautiful works of art.
Love barn quilts. We toured some between Buffalo and Rochester NY last year and it was great fun. Like a treasure hunt
The barn quilt metal works are so beautiful!
Thank you, Mark, for your generosity!
I’d love to hang one of these in my home!
I love the barn squares painted and these metal ones are awesome as well. Of the ones on the website my favorites are Blazing Star, Lone Star and Mariners Compass. One of my favorite quilt squares is the basket square so if I could have one of those that would be great! Either way I would hang it by my front door.
Working in the building which also houses our State Dept of Agriculture, I get to enjoy the Barn Quilt displayed on the side of the building. One cannot help but smile while passing it each day. And as a new quilter I would love to have one of this displayed on the front of my house. The Mariners Compass pattern is one of my favorites although I have not yet worked up the nerve to try it, being born and raised in Cincinnati I would love to have the Phio Star to display both my love of quilting and my home state pride.
I have a house with a 3 door garage. This leaves a huge empty space above those doors as the roof comes to a tall point up above. I have long wanted something to hang there, it has to be big! I thought of a big country 5 point star, then my neighbors hung one. Then I thought of a barn quilt & saw theses! Can’t afford one right now, but I have the perfect place to hang one! Please pick me! I’ve wanted one since they first came out!! Please?!?!
As we were designing our house, my husband and the realtor said, ” lets do an architectural detail on the front of the house to break up the line a little”. To me it’s just begging for something to go in the middle and a Barn Quilt would be just the thing.
Wow! I have been dreaming of painting one on our barn…no such luck as of yet. I would definitely hang mine on the side of the barn towards our driveway. Living on a farm has some perks and people driving by would definitely see it. I just love his designs and it’s a wonderful idea!!!!
I would love to put one in my backyard so I could look at it while sipping my morning coffee!
We live in Alaska on a large island and I would put the 3 foot Mariner’s Compass Barn Quilt on the front of our house to point out our location. What it would add a landmark to our house that you could see as you come to the island on the ferry! What fun!
This would look great on any wall, inside or out. Beautiful work.
Mark’s Barn Quilts are Spectacular !!! and I have a BARN to put it on. Two red barns in fact plus a small one for the chickens and Big Garage that I have been dying to put an Amish hex design on but this would be so much better. Mark is a Genuis, those are soooooo pretty. The Ohio Star Block is my all time favorite and he did such a wonderful job making these. I hope he comes to the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival – scarlette shobbs@scarlette.com
My husband built a small shed, that looks like a barn. I would love to hang one of your creation’s on our barn shed.
I’m thinking I would put one either on the west side of the garage [facing the house] or the west side of the barn, on the door to the hayloft or above [also facing the house]… but that’s because I would enjoy looking at it every day. If we wanted to share it with the world we might consider other sides of buildings.
Liking the mariners compass, a lot!
They are beautiful. Since I live in rural Alaska and the weather is very harsh here, I probably would hang it inside my living room. His metal work is absolutely amazing. Talk of quilting with a different medium!
I would love the Bear Paw quilt block to place over my two doors of my oversized garage. It would make a great statement of my favorite hobby/love. All of them are so beautiful.
These are so beautiful and it’s something I never thought of putting on my little plain house. Since everyone knows I quilt it would be a great addition to my home. Thanks Mark for this great idea…would love to see a flying geese design since that is my favorite block
I’d absolutely LOVE to hang one of these on our barn and I have a wall in the living room that needs one, too! Thanks a bunch for the chance to win! ☺
My husband is a musician and has a metal treble clef on the outside wall of our house under our covered deck, where he likes to play his guitar/mandolin. I’ve been known to sit out there and work on my hand binding. I think one of these barn quilts would look pretty cool on that same wall. They are absolutely beautiful!!! Thanks for the chance to win.
We have a large barn on our farm and I would love to hang a barn quilt up some day, so until I get it done I would put this on the lower barn door. A double wedding ring block would be great, my favorite pattern.
These are so fabulous, and I know just where I would put it if I were to win. I love to quilt and would love to have one of these metal sculptures to display.
Love them! I would put it on my garden shed, so when I gardening it would remind me of my other favorite hobby.
Whether this gorgeous metal work is hanging inside my craft/sewing room, or on the outside front porch, it would be a absolute treasure to own!!!
These are sooo quilty… would love to show one on the front of my garage.
We are building a new house. I would love to have a chance to win one of these beautiful designs to hang there!! Thanks for the chance to win!
Most definitely in love with these. The bear paw is my favorite. It would have to hang on the front of the house by the door. Then people outside will know there is a quilter inside. :0)
I would love to win one of these. I am a quilter, and I have the perfect place to hang one where it would be in a place of prominence on the front of my house.
I would like to say how wonderful your barn quilts are. I share my ‘obsession’ freely, and would love to share yours with my friends and family. I would put any one of your designs right at the front door for all the world to see ! And of course confirm that ALL are welcome
Saw several “barn quilts” while vacationing and told my husband..”I gotta have one of those”. He even said I could put on our barn/shop which is pretty much his domain. Your barn quilts look beautiful and I would love to have one.
I have a white house, so this quilt block would be an awesome display beside my front door. I especially like the Mariners Compass, but all of them are beautiful.
I have only been quilting regularly a little over 4 yrs giving my quilts away as gifts. I love the barn quilts and would love to put one in the peak on the front of my house. My favorite design is cathedral windows. Thank you for this oportunity to win one of these beautiful metal quilt designs.
I would love to put the Bear Paw design on the outside of my cabin in the mountains.
It would look Awesome! Thanks for the chance to win. They all look great.
These are great. Thanks for another fantastic giveaway!
The barn quilts are so “awesome”!! Love the metal . I have a perfect outside wall of my garage that would grab attention from my guests as well as those who drive by.
I cwoullkito have one on th barn,one on the front porch,and one i’n my sewing room,but it would be seen by tons of people on our front entrance. Relive on a US highway. I would love to keep it just forme,but it is so awesome,I feel the need to her it!
The barn quilts are so pretty. I would love to have one to either put on the side of our shed or on a short fence on the side of the patio.
Love these. I’ve seen numerous barn quilts in Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois.
I would love to have one of these to display on my balcony. I’m a country gal and farmers daughter.
I saw you at the AQS show in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I love barn quilts and yours are gorgeous. I would be happy with any of the patterns, but I especially like stars, in black. Thanks for the opportunity to own one!!
I would LOVE to win one of these quilt blocks! I’d hang it over out bistro set on our deck. I’d be able to see it from inside the dinning room/kitchen area of our home. I’d enjoy it on those summer evenings when we dine outside. AND, the street traffic would be able to enjoy it as they pass by.
I have a perfect place to hang one of these. It would be fun to collect them to match quilts I have made.
I would Love to put one over the door of my quilting/craft workshop in the back yard! PICK ME PLEASE!
Any quilt design would look great on my carport wall so I could think about quilting as I was going to work and coming home from work!
The metal quilts are awesome and I have the perfect place to hang any one of them, especially the three foot quilts. I live in a house that is 107 years old and next summer I was going to paint one on the outside of the house, but if I won one it would be perfect.
I have wanted to paint a “barn quilt” on the wall at the end of my garage. It would be visible to anyone turning onto our street and I would pass by it every day.
I would put it inside. Would be great to see them add 4 rings of a “Double Wedding Ring”. Was happy to see that they do custom orders.
Love them, would go on the front of my shed or the peak of my house, would really show up against the lite grey.
Oh my goodness. This would be so much easier than making one out of plywood and then painting nice neat lines which is what I put on my husband’s honey-do list to do this winter so we could hang it on our house gable next spring. I even have my desigh picked out…Night & Day although the Mariner’s compass would look wonderful, too. I agree, why just limit these neat things to barns when we quilter’s live in houses. :- ) Fingers crossed that I might be one of the winners.
love, love, love the mariners star….I paper pieced a wall hanging of it last year. Our families live miles apart, so it brings to mind all the directions that we travel for visits to those grandbabies! Beautiful work of art. I’d hang mine on our front porch.
I really liked these when I saw them in the magazine but didn’t take the time to look up their web site. Thanks for the reminder! If I had one of these I think I’d hang it on the end wall of the family room.
Awesome!!!! I was going to make some wood ones, but these would last longer outside!
OH PLEASE choose me … these would look SO GOOD on my pole barn …. and it would explain to all my neighbors why I’m indoors so much
These are beautiful and would look lovely on the wall of my house facing the street.
I have a great spot for the bear paw on our deck railing. How about a double wedding band or other circle pattern , too?
Thet are really beautiful , I have a double front door, 1/2 is just siding so it really needs decorating, I can’t think of anything that would be nicer then a Barn door hanging, I don’t need a big one, but would love any one.
These barn quilts are beautiful. I would love to win one as my mother-in-law has recently added a sun room on the back of her house. One of these would look wonderful on her fence so she could view it while sitting in her sun room.
I just love this! If I had one I would display it on the side of my home to proudly announce to everyone that a quilter resides here! So unique!!
Beautiful work! I would hang one of these blocks in my kitchen window so I could see it every time I wash dishes, my window over my front door or in the window of my sewing room. Any of these places would allow me to share my love of quilting with anyone who drives by my house, yet allow me to enjoy it daily, too. Other possible designs I would suggest would be Cathedral Window or Grandmother’s Flower Garden.
I have been thinking of getting one of these to put in a square window above my front door. I just can’t decide which one. Some suggestions: Snow Crystals Block, Goose in the Pond Block, Radiant Feathered Star Block. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
Marie
Hello,
What a wonderful contest you are having! If I was one of the lucky ones pick for this I would ask for the Ohio Star block or Monkey Wrench. The reason for this is b/c both are the first blocks I ever made and got hook making quilts. My son just moved from home and I now have a sewing room for the first time so I would hang it in my new sewing room! Thank you please have a good Thanksgiving…Sandy
These are really awesome, Will have to think about this!!
Oh how wonderful these are. Thank you for making and sharing them. I would display your quilt square on the side of my new sewing room my husband built for me.
I saw these blocks in a couple quilt magazine last month and immediately emailed my kids my Christmas list with one of these (any one as all are so very lovely) at the top of the list. I recently retired and set up a second home near my daughter’s family in North Carolina. The facade of the house is very plain and close to the street. I would put my first quilt block (my intention is to own several) next to the front door to welcome the my new friends and neighbors and to cheer me as I come and go.
I had the honor of meeting Mark at the AQS show in Grand Rapids in August, and purchased one of his large Mariner’s Compass blocks to put on the side of my house. I would love to have another one to put on my barn as well! Hmmm, and maybe one for my garage, too?!?!
I so enjoyed your display at the AQS show in Des Moines. These quilt blocks are gorgeous. We have a new patio between our house & garage. I believe one of these blocks would look great hanging on the garage, so everyone could see it, as they relaxed on the patio.
I would display it above my stairs in my hallway!
I absolutely love the metal quilt designs. It is a difficult decision which is my favoriate, but I vote for the mariner’s compass. They are almost too beautiful to hang outside; if I was fortunate enough to have one I would hang it above my fireplace mantel. How talented Mr. Fitzgerald is!
I’ll put it on the back fence where I can see it whenever look out the door.
As soon as I saw these in a magazine, I told “Santa” they were on my wish list for the holidays.I’d LOVE to own one and would put it right near my front door for everyone to see that a quilter lives in this house. My exterior is siding so it would look FABULOUS!
Great giveaway!!
I would love to have one of his barn quilts to put on my [grey] house. I became interested in barn quilts several years ago when I was selected to be the first barn quilt block design winner at Accuquilt.
thanks!
I know I could find the perfect place to hang one on my front porch for all to enjoy. But, then I would need to get another to put on the garage. They are wonderful!
Awesome! Almost makes you want to build a barn to put them on!!!
These are great! My dad always had an old barn. He had a stroke and in nursing home now. I’d love to have a barn quilt to hang at the nursing home for all the patients to enjoy.
These are amazing works of art. I would love to win one to hang beside my front door. Thank you for the chance to win.
I would love to be the first in our community to have a metal quilt block on the front of my home to welcome all visitors. What a wonderful way to declare my love of quilts to others.
Beautiful! I would put one near my front door for everyone to enjoy.
Just love these! And would love one for my dining room with its 15 foot ceiling… lots of wall space for that large Mariner’s Compass.
I love Dutch Rose and Sister’s Choice. Right on my front door!
Love these!! They would look great on the beige brick on the front of our home, but I might be selfish and hang it in our diningroom so I could admire it constantly. This goes to the top of my wishlist!
I love your versions of barn quilts!!! If I had one I’d hang it on my front door, over the large glass window…That way I could enjoy it coming and going and while at home every day. It would let the light shine in and create wonderful shadows of the quilt design on my floors as the sun set and let the light shine out at night, sharing the design with the world!
I love all of these. I’ve been wanting to put a barn quilt on the back side of my garage that faces the highway. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love these metal pieces of quilts. I have a friend that made a compas quilt and would love to give her that block. Thanks for offering to give one to a quilter.
I love these. We have a painted barn quilt on our barn and we are part of a barn quilt tour biannually.
I would love to have one of these to hang on our porch by the door where all enter! Our farmhouse has been in my family for 4 generations! \
Please come to our Apple and Pork Festival in Clinton Illinois the last week in September. We have a special place for artists to display their wares. Please contact me if you are interested.
The metal works “quilts” are beautiful. I’d hang any of your designs, Mark, on my porch.Thank you for the chance to win Quiltmaker.
Unfortunately, I haven’t seen any “quilts” on barns in the Phoenix area. I would love to win one to hang on the outside of my home here in my little town that is a suburb of Phoenix! Your metalwork is beautiful!
I would love love to win one of these. I have the perfeft place for one on my pole barn. I would be the envy of all around!
Sue
I would love one for my barn!!
I love the idea of having a barn quilt without the barn. Someday I hope to retire to the country and have a barn but until then I would love to have a metal quilt to hang in my covered outdoor fireplace area. Quilts are such comforts-making, piecing, giving, cuddling, sharing, displaying, and well, it would be awesome to add winning to the list.
Your quilts are awesome.
These are so cool! I would put it on my inclosed porch. I would love to see one made with the basket block.
I would hang one on the porch of our log home in Pray, Montana. It would look beautiful against the warm wood logs and compliment the amazing view of Paradise Valley and the surrounding mountains.
I have no idea where I would hang a barn quilt as we are selling our current house to move back to Texas. It might just migrate from room to room and exterior wall to exterior wall until it finds its home. How about a fireplace screen? Is the process limited to straight lines? My Mother loved Sunbonnet Sue’s. That one would live in my sewing room.
I love everyone of these designs! If I won one I would hang it on my husband’s storage building that looks like a barn! That would be so cool!!!
Really classic in appearance. I would hang this in my studio/ tv room so I could enjoy it everyday. I would love an Ohio Star. I am a buckeye at heart.
I don’t have a barn but the end of my house is available and perfect for one of these. While with my friend last year, she ordered a couple of these for her log cabin workshop we’ve been updating for our quilting studio. Can’t wait to hang them on our first official sewing day. As for me, the end of my house faces a major highway – a perfect place to hang a piece of art.
I love seeing barn quilts and someday hope to have one painted for my very large 1880′s barn. But, for now, my time and money is going towards restoring the barn. If I won one of these, I could enjoy it hanging on the barn right away!
Love it!
I would hang it right outside my front door, it would be the first quilt they would see walking into my house. I don’t know what other blocks I would like , I just love them all.
I would love to have one! We just had a new little storage barn built, I could put it on the front where we could enjoy it from the kitchen or sitting on the deck. Thanks for the chance they are beautiful!
I live in a 100 year old house and have a little outbuilding that would love to have a quilt displayed on it! I hope I win one! Thanks for the give away!
I absolutely love your barn quilts. I would love to hang one on the front of a small shed at the side of my apartment. Everyone who loves in this complex walks right past the little shed and it would make such a nice display and conversation piece. Thank you so much for the opportunity of winning this!
When I saw this on FB I did not recognize the block and just thought hey that’s really beautiful. When I went to this blog to read the article and saw the name Mariner’s Compass I knew I had to respond here. I am opening a new quilt/fabric shop in North Dakota. The name is Sew On & Sew North….i have considered using a compass as part of my logo. So this would be beautiful displayed as part of my sign on my store. It would be representative of the Sew North portion of the name and would be a compass guiding me on my new exciting adventure!!!!
Thanks!!!
What a wonderful way this would be to share my love of quilting. I love all 5 of the barn quilts and any of them would look fabulous displayed on the shaker shingles on my home.
I have a broad open area on the front of my house. I would display the quilt metal work there. I have a lot of stop by traffic because I just redid my landscaping and have made my entire front yard an eatible garden. How quaint this work of art will be as it and the garden will complement each other.
Thank you for such beautiful work and the chance to be picked to display it.
Wini – near Tomball, Texas
I would put it on the fron of my house near the front door right next to my glorious blazing red maple. It’s the perfect spot for it!
I have a plaque near my front door that I would absolutely love to replace with one of these. They are so beautiful. Thanks for the opportunity.
My grandmother passed away two months ago and i was blessed witj the ability to move into her home. My grandmothers house was the rock for all of use we had every holiday here and it was always full of love. I would Love to display the mariners compus on the front of her home as a reminder to all of us that no matter where we are in life we can always find our way back home.
I would love to display this on my Home…of course by the front door.. to announce to all that a Quilter lives here!!
I have the perfect place for one of these! On the end of our typical split level house over the garage entrance. It is no longer a garage, but an apartment for my 94 year old father. Any one of these would look great above his big windows!
I would have to hang it on the front of my house so when folks come up the long driveway they will see it!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
Oh these look wonderful – I am a city quilter (so no barn) but I think this would look lovely on the gable of my garage.
This look is wonderful, especially on a side of my house. Nice idea, Different look besides the stars…
These barn quilts are beyond beautiful. I am not sure my quilts will still be around in 100 years but yours sure will!
Barn quilts make any trip more interesting, I always wonder what the reason for them picking that design, our county printed a flyer explaining just that, along with a map of all the barn quilts in our county.
I live on a farm and have the red barn to put it on!
These will look good incorporated in to my flower trellis my nephew is making me.
I have seen these barn quilts in other magazine’s. They are beautiful and I would love to display one either by my back door or maybe on the garage. And since I have chickens my block suggestion is “hen and chicks”
These are wonderful. I think I would put it on the South end of the house so that everyone coming around the corner could see a quilter lives here! I wonder if he could do some sort of Dresden Plate?
Beautiful designs! I would hang it on my front porch wall.
I would love to display on our barn. We grow organic veggies and berries, so I think it would be fun. Quilting and growing go together! Thanks for the chance to win.
The Mariners’ Compass at the top of this page is awesome! I have a space on the house between the driveway and the front door, where everyone would be able to enjoy it. Thank you everyone for this wonderful opportunity!
Very unique, great idea, it would be great to hang one on our home, because everyone knows how much I love to quilt, this would be a great welcome to my world. Wishing you all the best in this great career
I also make Stained Glass pictures as well as doing quilting and I think these metal ,quilts complement both of these things. I would put one in my front room, with a stained glass picture the other side with a quilt in the middle, that I think would make the room a Quilters Dream
These are so beautiful!! I would hang one at the entrance of my Quilt Studio, where all could enjoy it, when they came to visit!! All the Best!
Mary Ann in Denmark!
It would be fun to find the perfect spot and oh goodness, what block? Must need more than one…
Oh this would be so neat to own. Would love to have one to put on the outside of my home. And I wouldn’t care which one I would win!!!
I have wanted to paint a board with a quilt block on it for years to hang on the front of my house between the bedrooms windows to say that a special person lives here and I think your one of your quilt blocks would be perfect.
These are beautiful pieces and would look awesome on our front porch. The perfect greeting to anyone coming to visit our home. I’d love to have one!
Still hoping to win one of these-they are so unique!!!
I have admired these in magazine articles, and drooled over the patterns he uses. Love them! If I won, I’d put it in my sewing area.
These are gorgeous artwork and make quite the statement. I would hang one on the front of my house, which is cedar sided and has just the perfect size piece of empty space up high on the second story.
I would display the barn quilt block on the side of our house, when it’s stationary! We are transitioning to gypsy-living by purchasing a camper trailer as our new house on wheels!
I would love to win one of these for my mother-in-law! She holds a family/friends crafting/quilting get together a few times a year so, one would look just awesome above the door to the her separate get-together building
These are really nice!! I would hang one by my front door! Love the Mariner’s Cross. Would love to see a Shoo Fly or Ohio Star.
I would like to see the Martha Washington star block. It is my favorite block to make in red, white and blue. I put this block in a Marine Corp Quilt for my son and it frame the Marine Logo that I hand embroidered in the center. I would hang the barn quilt on a post at the entrance to my driveway or have it on the front top of the machine shed or grain bin for all to see.
So beautiful. What a great decoration.
I would put a barn quilt on the end of our barn facing the road in our little Southern rural community. Then everyone who passes our place would be able to see and enjoy it. And, then, I would put another on on the opposite end of the barn, and then one on the front, and one on the back of the barn, and then I would just keep on adding barn quilts until I ran out of room. I would like to see a Lone Star quilt block made into a barn quit and also a traditional Alabama block.
I live in an apartment. I would either display in in my living room or kitchen, or on my front porch by the front door. Thanks for the chance to win!
wigglypup2(at)yahoo(d0t)com
I love anything and everything “quilty”. These are dramatic and beautiful. Mine would look great on the front of my house.
Love barn quilts! I have the perfect spot for one of Mark’s Ohio star barn quilt next to my front door. It would look perfect against the white siding! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I love barn quilts. I just returned from a road trip throughout North Carolina and one of the towns had painted quilt blocks on many of the local businesses, it was stunning.
I would display this on the wall in my porch. thanks for the chance to win.
What a terrific way to move quilts outdoors. I have a log home and would display it by my front door.
We are remodeling a country school house to be our new home. One end has a gable with out a window. That plain area would be fabulous with a barn quilt there. This is such a neat idea. Barn quilts are so cool.
Love them! I would hang it on the fence next to the house and facing the street?
I love these! I have been keeping my eye on them at Quilter’s General for a while now. They are so unique and would add the country flair to my front porch that I like.
I have the perfect place for the Barn Quilt if I would win. I have a Potting shed with a Rose bush growing in front of it and flower box at the end. I have wanted to paint some quilts to hang there and this would be awsome on the shed. The shed faces the road. I would like to see an Ohio Star pattern also.
I’ve admired the barn quilts on Mark’s website previously & put it on my wish list. I have the perfect wall on the front of my house to showcase a barn quilt. I’m sure we would soon have barn quilts popping up on the other quilter’s homes in my neighborhood! How cool would that be!
I would put it on my front porch. I love the way these blocks look, especially the stars.
I’d hang it on the side of our shed (we call it our barn).
I would love to hang it on my barn.
Hubs, just built a new barn and it is just screaming for one of these barn quilts!! I think they are absolutely fabulous and would love to have one.
What am awesome idea! I love these. I would display this on the inside of my house to!!
If I should be so lucky as to win one of these awesome barn quilt blocks, I would put
it on my barn, of course.
Really like the look of these, would love to have one of my very own.
I would prominently display it on our barn in town where everyone could see it! Gorgeous!
It would be wonderful to have my own Barn Quilt to put, where else, but on my Quilt Studio where my long arm machine resides! thks
The mariners compass would look great right beside my front door ! It would save me the trouble of trying to paint one !
They are all so beautiful ! I could definately see one on the front of my house.
I am making Aa sitting area in my garden and a barn quilt square would be a finishing touch. Thank you
Mark,
Your work is beautiful!
Eileen,
Thanks for sharing!
A beautiful way to continue the tradition of barn quilts. I would love to put one on my front porch, since I don’t have a barn.
I LOVE these!!! I would love to have one for my garage or house! I could replace the old one I painted many years ago then! Please….
I love these! Don’t have a barn, but would happily display it on a wall in my apartment. I would love to see them do a Churn Dash pattern.
So cool & w/no color ~ black goes with everything!!
Thank you for such a wonderful way to have a barn quilt/block to display. As I have not got a barn I would love to display my love of quilting with one of these great designs on the front porch of my house – it tells so much by just being there. Where can we get these in Canada?
I would love to hang one on the porch at my house. It would make a great accent next to the porch swing where I do photo ops of my quilts before I post them. I love driving in East Tennessee where you get a glimpse of the ones that have been on barns for years.
I love barns quilts, saw some wonderful ones in Tillamook, Oregon. I’d love to find a way to attach one to our RV, when traveling around the country.
I’d love to have one of these for the side of my shed, they’re just beautiful!
I have a small one and was thinking of getting the bigger one. Love the one I have!!!
I live by Galveston Bay where boating is very popular, and would love to have the Mariner’s Compass hanging on my front porch!
In Texas you see a lot of metal stars on homes. I’d love to have metal quilt to identify my home to be different.
This past summer my husband and I have worked on sprucing up the front and back porches in our Circa 1900 home to be extended outdoor living areas. I have seen these quilt blocks at quilt shows and was looking to purchase a few for the blank walls of my porches to finish out the look of an outdoor living area. Would love to be able to win one. My granddaughter loves to sit on the porch with me and read books and do other activities.
It take a true artist to make something like these metal quilt blocks. How beautiful they are and to think that quilting doesn’t have to be just using fabric. I love old country “things” and think to would be a wonderful addition to my home.
These are great. I have a wall that’s empty in my bedroom where that carpenter’s wheel would look terrific
Mark, Your metal works are beautiful…. thank you for sharing.
These are wonderful! I would use one on my work shed since I do not live on a farm. It would stand out for all to see against the steel blue paint which adorns it. Thanks for sharing!
“Thank you” to Mark for offering the beautiful and unique quilt blocks. I would be so pleased if I won one to mount on my brick porch alcove.
Thank you to Mark for these wonderful quilt inspired metal barn quilts! What a wonderful idea and as I was reading this, I thought four of them on point would be cool on our pole barn. this is a wonderful way to show our interest in the great way of quilting! Thanks for the give away! Happy Thanksgiving!
I have the perfect spot on my front porch. Since i live at the top of a cul-de -sac it will be viewed by many. These are outstanding! Keeping my fingers crossed.:)
I was thinking this metal quilt block would be a perfect giveaway for our quilting group at our annual silent auction at our church. What an absolutely awesome idea to make the quilt blocks in metal.
These are beautiful. I live out in the country and have an old shed by the road. It would hang there beautifully. Thanks for the chance to win!
These are absolutely stunning. I have the perfect place for one either on my front porch or my garage. Thank you so very much for the chance to win.
Depending on the size, I would display it on the end of our large barn (live on a farm) or on the side of our wide brick fireplace chimney on the side of our house beneath our large wrought iron “B”.
Beautiful metalworks, Mark. Quilt without the quilting:)
I think hanging one on my gate to identify the occupant as a quilter would be sensational
Any one of the metalwork pieces would look great on my sewing room wall.
I would love to win one of these Barn Quilts for my mother she loves to Quilt. Thank you for a chance to win one
These are beautiful! I board on an actual farm, but the barn would not come even close to doing these barn quilts justice. I would have to display it on the house itself.
I’m 73, making my first quilt and love it. Would love one of your quilt block sculptures for OUR sewing room. Wife is teaching me. Piecing is a lot like carpentry. She says I’m a fast learner. And now we have even more in common.
Was trying visualize where one of these would look best on the house, when I realized we have a barn across the street where I could see it every day! Many days I don’t leave the house, so this option has ME as the beneficiary of it’s charm!
I would place a barn quilt right on the front of my house because, being in a cul-de-sac, it would be visible all the way down the block and everyone would see that I am a quilter. My choice of blocks would be the Mariner’s Compass because my dad was a boat captain and it would remind me of him every time I looked at it.
OMG!!! Any design would work for me! I would love to hang it at my front door …don’t have a barn! LOL!! I love quilting and anything that has anything to do with quilt designs!
Thanks
I would put it either on my pumphouse so you could see it first thing coming up my driveway or I would put it next to the front door so I could step outside to see whenever I wanted. I really love these! Thank you for the chance to win!
Winning this would be the best Christmas ever! I have loved the Bear Paw Block for as long as I can remember! Thank you for the opportunity to win one! It would have a proud place to grace the wall of my quilting studio!
I have a wood fence when you pull in our drive and you see from the road – I would love to put a block on that! thank you!
I would display the metalworks in my sewing room. The Mariner’s Compass is beautiful on the barn wall, Mark. Thank you for your donation.
Would love to see a Dresden plate. Thanks for the chance to win!
I would hang the block next to my front door. My favorite block in the bear paw. Thanks!
There are large wood panels on the side of my garage that faces the street. A barn quilt would look great there!
Made in the USA! Way to go,Mark! Love the Rusty works, too!Great pics on your site!
I Love your metal barn quilts! My husband painted a barn quilt for our barn shaped house. We have a barn red potting shed with white trim and a metal barn quilt would look perfect on it.
I would love to put one on the front of my house! I would love to learn how to make these!
Would love to win one of these!
A New York block would be really nice to see made of iron. A perfect place for one of these works of art would be foyer so that the first thing a person coming into my home would see it. I think they are beautiful. Thank you for the giveaway.
These metal quilts are awesome. The spot I was going to put the wooden barn quilt would look even better with a metal one! If I don’t win one, maybe my hubby will be inspired to try his hand at making one…..
These are wonderful! I don’t have a barn or shed to display one but have been wanting one. If I had one I could display one of these on the end of my garage where everyone who drives up would see it! I think a maple leaf block would be beautiful like this!
hulseybg at gmail dot com
I have the perfect little barn to hang one of his metal sculptures on. Being in farm country, how about “Farmer’s Daughter”? (I can hear my little barn/tool shed whining now–I want, I want)
If I am lucky enough to win one, it is going on the wall outside my quilting room to “annouce” to everyone whose room it is and what happens there!
Oh I love these and my husband and I just built a red barn… You bet I know where I would put one of these! FRONT and CENTER!
lisamcgriff (at) hotmail (dot) com
I have lots of cast iron things I use to decorate my porch. The metal works quilt would be right at home hanging with those things. I also like the rusty works on Mark’s page.
These are Beautiful! and a great way to add a quilt to your house without painting. I love the mariner’s compass. But I thiink they are all beautiful and outstanding. I think I would have to put one on point at the peak of my house!!
I think I will also add the napkin holder to my wish list.
I would love one over my bed in place of the copper fans I have there now. Tehy are all so wonderful!
I’d have to hang it on my front porch. Thanks for the chance to win!
I’ve been wanting one of these barn blocks, but it’s not in my budget right now. I have a HUGE 156 year old brick home that one of these blocks would look wonderful on, and that is also where my long arm quilting business is! I would love to win one!
I LOVE these quilt blocks…what an awesome idea…I have a white house and one of these would look just wonderful beside my red door… I am a quilter (I should be honest and say I am a piecer) My 83 yr. old Mother does my hand quilting…I am blessed…..and would appreciate a quilt block to show my love of quilting!
My quilting mentor lives in the country with a barn. I think if I won, I would give the prize to her to hang on the side of her barn/garage. Thanks!
I love touring WI and finding all the barn quilts! As a quilter, I would love one of these to put on the side of my house for all to see!
I love the Mariner’s Compass design and would display it on the front of our garage (the largest area available). If I had two, I could display them on the front of the house between the three windows (window, design, window, design, window).
I saw these at a quilt show last year and have pined for one since then. They are beautiful! I have just the spot on the front of my house over the garage door to proudly display one – any of them would be beautiful there.
I’d love to hang one of these metal barn quilts on my little barn here in West Virginia!
What a great idea.
Love these – one would look beautiful on my house!
I’d like to hang in my house as well as I have 2 story high interior walls. These are so beautiful. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
They are so beautiful, and there are so many ways I would display them, I would love on the peak of my porch, on the house, between the upstairs window, I would and them in my room which all done in adirondack pine boarding
I was so quick to run over to the site that I didn’t read that they won’t have napkin holders till next year
These are so beautiful. I would hang it over the garage door.
I’d love to hang a barn quilt on the chimney on the side of the house that faces the main road. Then the entire neighborhood could enjoy it. I’d also like to hang a small one under my mailbox.
These would look really neat beside my front door or on my screened in deck.
Would love to have one!
I am looking forward to painting a chicken themed barn quilt for a friend who keeps all sorts of fowl. I’d like to win a variation on a log cabin that has a little house in the middle. I’d put it in my front hall so I could view it all day long.
Love these! I’d display one either in my sewing room or on the outside of the house (no barn) next to to door to the studio!
I would display the barn quilt art near my sewing room window. It would be an opportunity to educate our neighbors in urban Atlanta to the arts and quilting.
I would put it on the front of my quit shop!
I think a LeMoyne Star would make a great barn quilt!! I’d love to hang it on my lanai!
I love the mariner’s compass…I would hang it on the front of my house. What a wonderful way to welcome friends & family.
The compass is wonderful. Would be an honor to display one of these creations.
That mariner’s compass has my name all over it!
So beautiful. Maybe a fan block would be nice. Thanks for the chance to win.
I have the perfect spot for a barn quilt block. I don’t have a barn but I do have an outdoor shower that is in the back of the house. The back of the house is also on a street and I would love to show off my hobby with one of these wonderful works of art!
these are beautiful, i would put anyone of them on the front of my house beside my front door…if i would ever move it would be the first thing i would pack. thanks for the chance and i really hope i win.
Oh, I would love to win that 3″ Mariners Compass! That has always been my favorite! My Dad was a navel architect for the Navy and i would hang it proudly in his honor! Actually, I would love any of them. Thank you so much for this article and the chance to win one of these beauties.
I have never seen one of those metal designs. I love them. Thank you for the chance to win one. they are beautiful……
I have the perfect spot for a wonderful barn quilt above my garage on my newly painted tri-level in a lovely midwest America community!
These are absolutely beautiful! I would love to one for the barn!front of our
They are spectacular and simple . They look good inside and outside.
I have always wanted a block to put on the front of my motel…. I would love to see the friendship block..
I have a mariner compass on our house already, which was a gift from my children. That being said I would love to put one on our cabin in northern Wisconsin. These “quilt blocks” are so and I can’t wait to win another one. Any block he comes up with is a good block.
I think this mariner compass is just what I need for my garage front since I don’t have a barn this would be a great addition to our home Glenda Oliver
I love the Barn Quilts! I would love to have one to put on the side of our wood shed, it’s a perfect display wall along our sidewalk.
Hey Quiltmaker! Happy Holidays! I love Barn Quilts and would probably hang one of these up beside my front door. Yes, that’s the ticket for me.
I think churn dash would be a great quilt block to make into one of these!
Wow! These barn quilts are fabulous! Mark does a super job on them … I just checked them out and am in love with them. I would love to display one on my garage (that looks rather like a barn) or the front of my house. Thanks for the chance to win one of Mark’s awesome blocks!!
Really neat. I have the perfect spot on the front of my house where there are a lot of people that pass by daily. Would be great advertisement for you and also would look beautiful on my house. I love the crafty idea.
Would so love to win one of these quilt blocks. have the perfect spot on the side of my house.
The barn quilts are lovely and a perfect size. I would display them in the courtyard of our home where we could enjoy them and they would be seen by all who visited our home.
Love them ! Would love to put one at my front door or in my backyard. Maybe a Grandmothers Flower Garden.
Oh my, I love these. Anything to do with barns and quilts gets my vote.
They are beautiful and would look amazing hanging on anyone’s house (especially my house!)
One of these metalwork pieces would look great hanging on my porch.
please, I would love to win one. I have a small barn shed that I would put it on.
love to win. i’ll put it on my back porch.
I love the black metal – Wow! How they would show up on or in a house! I think if I had a small one I would hang it on the oak wall above the slate fireplace; if it were larger, It would go outside to the side of the large window in the living room. I have the perfect place where everyone could see it. No trees around it, just deep red barberry bushes to show it off.
Great website! My favourite is the LeMoyne star, I would be torn between placing it on the garage wall where I would enjoy seeing it every day from my kitchen window or on an interior wall in the kitchen. Thanks.
These are just beautiful! I would love to see one of them in my sewing room and another can go on the deck. Oooh, the possibilities!!!
I would hang a metalworks piece where I could see it everyday!
Thank you , Mark, and Quiltmaker!
These are wonderful! I would hang it inside where I could see it everyday.
They are beautiful! I would love to have one for my home. There are so many great quilt block designs. I think there’s one called Honey Bee I really liked.
Do I like just one? No. They’re all sooooo beautiful! Striking in fact!!
These are great. I would hang one next to my back door.
I would love to hang one either on the front of my house, or on the side where I have more room and it faces a busy street. It’s kind of like hanging a sign that says “A quilter lives here.”
I love the metalworks. The rusty metal is great,too. Would hang it on my porch.
Sew Cool!!
I would hang mine on my Garden Shed, to remind others that gardening is not my only passion. I love all the designs, who wouldn’t?
Thank you for showing them to us.
Hang one in the entry way. Beautiful art work.
I would hang it on my garage door, sew every car that goes by could see it !!
I would display it above my sewing area. Perfect place. Thanks for the chance to win. I love the barn quilts
These metal work pieces would look great just about anywhere in our home. I’d love to see a piece made from the Sunbonnet Sue quilt design.
Would love to have one. Thanks
I was going to start a wooden one as a project over the winter. I didn’t realize they were available in metal! What a great idea. I have the perfect place to hang one!
I have the perfect spot for one of these. So cool!!
I love them I would hang on side where everyone could see
I am a longarm quilter and would not only like, but LOVE one of these to hang on our new house! We move in the middle of January and this would tell our neighborhood that a Quilter Lives Here!
We have a cabin in the mountains……I have wanted one for a long time…..Please pick me!!!! lol
One of these would look so nice on the front door of our barn at the racetrack.I like to decorate our barn during “Grand Circuit” week because we have new people coming to the races.Next year I want to paint different quilt blocks on wood and put them under the windows of each horse.
I just love these, they are beautiful.
I’ve been wanting one to hang on the front peak of my car port. It looks so bare and needs something beautiful to accent.
This is form of art and I love to display any form of art. I love creative people and their work. Would love to win one to show off the talent.
I would hang one of these on the peak of our garage or on the house by the back door. Love them & can’t wait to get one.
I would display it on the front of my house.
They are BEAUTIFUL! I would hang it on the front of my garage if not in my living room.
How cool are these!! I dont have a barn or fence but I could display it proudly by my front door!! I think a Feathered Star would look great, especially with lights behind it. That Mariners Compass is pretty amazing. Id say you had a great idea an will have lots of fun with it! Good Luck everyone!
Saw these in your magazine and loved them! Would love to hang one on the back yard “barn”.
Beautiful and love the idea. I’d hang it by my front door.
This is such an awesome idea – my husband is a sheet metal worker of 26 years and has made me some beautiful things, but NEVER anything like these! I would LOVE to win! I would proudly display my winning “quilt” on the side of the house, just so husband could see it everyday when he comes down the driveway, home from work! ha ha ha. Just kidding, husband would love this, too. We quilt as a team – he helps with the color selection and cuts all my strips/pieces and I sew them together while he “ooh’s and ahh’s” over them.
God bless you all and Happy Quilting!
WoW !! Beautiful!! I would hang one on the front side of my house, between the garage windows. The black iron would look gorgeous on the weathered green of my house.
Got just the spot
I already own one of them and love it on our house. We have a cabin up north that I would love to put on one also. They are so durable and add quilting character where ever you put them. Lots of people comment on my mariner compass quilt block already. I would be so excited to win one and display it in the northwoods.
Beautiful!! Have a perfect wall to hang something like this on….
Beautiful! I would probably hang one in my living room for all to see as they enter.
I have a huge stone fireplace that would look great with one of these hanging on it. I also have a barn that could use one, but if it was inside friends and family could admire it better. They are really beautiful, such a talented guy to think of this idea. Thanks for the chance to win one.
What a wonderful giveaway! I would love to use this in the window of my front door instead of a generic grill.
These are SOOO cool. I’d put it near my front door!
What a wonderful idea. I would build a barn of course if I won. lol
I currently live in a 32′ rv 5th wheel and still do my quilt making in it while my husband works on location. A smaller light weight one for the door or side of the RV would be wonderful or even to hang at the end of the canopy. I also see one used as a picnic table centerpiece Keep up the good work and new ideas. “Sew2Day4Fun”
aka Judy Wagner
barn quilt would be great mounted above my couch.
What a beautiful product to sell to us quilters! There are so many places I can think to hang something this pretty. We have a beach house that would benefit from your art – I have to admit, I have been looking for just the right thing to put there. It would have to withstand beach life and that has always made it more difficult to choose materials. On the other hand, I have a beautiful fence in my backyard that I look at (complete with squirrels that play in my backyard) that would provide me with a perfect place for one of these. It would not be seen so much by the public, but would be enjoyed by my family and friends (especially my quilting friends that come over to sew and use the longarm). Needless to say, I WOULD LOVE TO WIN ONE OF THESE.
Love the barn quilt!! Would be perfect for my front porch.
Beautiful work..so much talent involved when it comes to making things like this. Our local FFA group began painting ‘barn quilts’ and hanging them on our local farmer’s barns. This has become epidemic here in Iowa. Your designs are awesome and would look great anywhere! I own an older 2-story building in my small rural town. Built in 1890. Just having a vision of what these style barn quilts would like like mounted on the upper windows at 25 foot with some special lighting! Keep up the great work you do! I love seeing these!
The Barn Quilts are amazing, and your work is amazing. We have a 20ft Moss Rock wall with Fireplace and Mantle, a Grouping of these would look Awesome. I come from a quilting family, my mom, mother-in-law, aunts, and even one of my uncles. It would be a blessing to win one of your Barn Quilts!
the blocks are awesome! so simple looking in their basic outline design. nice to see this as a growing movement.
Good timing! I am in need of a barn quilt to hang next to my front door. The Home Sweet Home heart that hung there has disappeared after 14 years. I guess it was due to be replaced.
Having made several Easy Elegant Lone Star quilts and planning to make many more, it would be wonderful the have Lone star block made by you for the wall outside my studio. Your idea was fantastic-kudos for running with it!
I looked at these at a fair I still remember them – They are great looking and would love to have one on the barn or the log cabin where alot of quilters spend time
One of these would look really nice on the front of my house. Thanks for the chance to win one.
I would love one. Very neat.
These metal quilt squares are absolutely beautiful. I have the perfect spot for one — right by my front door. Quilting is my new passion, and this type of art would be a special addition to my front porch!
I have just the spot for one of these little beauties on the front of my house near the door. My neighbors see me coming and going with my sewing machine all the time and always ask to see what I’m making. It would be a perfect statement for my little blue house!
I would place the beautiful barn quilt on the side of my house that you see coming up my long driveway.
I am so excited to be a winner! Thank you so much for the awesome gift and all the inspiration!