Have you ever driven through the countryside and spotted what looks like a big quilt block on the side of a barn or hanging in the window of a local merchant? These places are participating in the Colorado Quilt Trails, which goes up and down the Front Range.
Many people credit the start of this quilt trail movement to a family farm in Ohio in 2001 and it has spread throughout the country. Small, rural communities that embraced barn quilts have developed driving tours to attract tourism.
Barn quilts give owners the opportunity to spruce up their barns and share a bit of their personalities through this folk art.
The Agricultural Heritage Center jumped on the opportunity to become the first barn quilt in the Boulder County Quilt Trail. The Prairie Sunrise pattern is mounted on the historic Stroh-Dickens Barn, ca 1900.