Ring in the New Year!

We have a couple of days left, but since I am off for a bit of vacation in the woods, I wanted to go ahead and send new year's wishes out to everyone.

As I ring in the new year . . .



I look forward to heading back out to the quilt trail; visiting friends old and new; and signing and celebrating the book! I have lots of great events scheduled already--Tennessee, Illinois, and North Carolina in the spring and Wisconsin in the summer--with many visits to Georgia quilt guilds throughout the year! What fun--and the planning has just begun!

I hope to meet in person more of the folks I have "met" online these past couple of years. Drop me a line if you'd like to host a signing, and I'll see if we can make it happen.

Meanwhile, I hope good things are on the way in 2012 for all of you and those whom you hold dear.

Happy 2012--Let the bells ring!

Suzi

An Adams County Original

This barn quilt is one of the original 20 painted in Adams County, Ohio--the first quilt trail. The Sawtooth Star is at Mary Hughes' barn and was painted by artist Charlie Reed.

This was before quilt blocks were painted on plywood and then hung--imagine spending a couple of days up on scaffolding painting this huge work of art!

When I visited with Mary she talked about having the barn repainted. She said, "The wind was blowing and they fastened a covering so that they wouldn’t get any paint on the quilt, but they got one little tiny dribble on one corner." If you look closely, you can see their little "oops," but from the road, the quilt square still looks perfect..Barn quilt calendar 2011barn quilts quilt trail