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Inspiring Barn Quilt Patterns – Easy and Fun to Make

Quilters are passionate about their craft and take pride in displaying their beautiful quilts. From draping them over a couch or bed to hanging them on a wall, there are endless possibilities. Enter barn quilt patterns. Do you know what a barn quilt is? These large pieces of wood painted to look like quilt blocks have a rich history in our country. Originally used as a way to decorate farms and bring good luck, they are now a popular attraction for tourists and a fun way to draw inspiration for your next quilt.

Barn quilts are essentially large pieces of wood that are painted to look like quilt blocks. They are typically hung on the outside of a barn or home, and can range in size from a few feet to several feet in length. The tradition of barn quilts dates back over 200 years, when women would take a pattern of a quilt block that their grandmother had made and paint it onto a large piece of wood to hang on their barn. This was a way to decorate their farms and show off their family pride. Over time, as paint became more readily available, people began painting their entire barns and the tradition of barn quilts faded away.

In 2000, a woman from Ohio started a barn quilt tour to increase tourism in her state, which allowed people to visit farms and view the barn quilts that were painted to represent the families who owned them. This initiative helped to revive the tradition of barn quilts and make them a popular attraction for tourists.

You can learn more about the amazing history of barn quilts here – http://barnquiltinfo.com/history.html

Amazing barn quilt patterns to inspire you for your next quilt

Stained barn quilt

The beautiful barn quilt pattern here features a monochromatic background with contrasting squares in the corners, and many polygons arranged into colorful polygon arrow shapes that point from each edge and each corner towards the center, forming a wonderful star similar to a snowflake.

by Uniquecreationsbyanita

Barn star

Here’s a fun quilt that uses just three colors to produce a wonderful design, a white Froebel star on a green background, with a yellow diamond in its center inside of which sits a white square, all made from blocks that are either monochromatic or have a contrasting hourglass pattern on them with triangles in two or three colors.

by Houseofhawthornes

Monochrome barn quilt

This quilt makes for a perfect wall decoration piece, even better when you frame it like a picture and let it improve the vibe in your room with its fun two-colored design where a darker color fills the background and a white Froebel star sits in the center, with an additional smaller windmill shape in its center.

by Afreshsqueezedlife

Farmhouse barn quilt

Here comes a dynamic block that will make your quilts look as if they’re dancing around, thanks to its two-hued appearance with a dark color of your choice as the background and a white sawtooth on top of it, decorated with a small square inside it that matches the background in color and has a white pinwheel design in the middle.

by Knickoftime

Painted blue barn quilt

Play with squares and triangles in three different colors as you make this quilt that has only one motif of a sawtooth star set on a smaller square, with a contrasting diamond inside it and an hourglass patch in the diamond, all on a pure white background.

by Rwinspired

Whimsy barn quilt

Here’s a quilt that gives off those patriotic vibes with its red white and blue colors that form an interesting type of sawtooth star with slightly pointier tips, a checkered square in its center, and checkered squares in the corners of the quilt that have little blue and white stars on two of the four squares that make them.

by Quiltingdigest

Stepping stones barn quilt

Just two colors are enough to produce this fine work of art, a quilt that has a contrasting frame around it with small squares running from each corner to the middle where four inward-pointing polygon arrows form a cross shape with a contrasting tilted sawtooth star inside, decorated by a dark square in its center.

by Lifeonsummerhill

Heart barn quilt

Love is in the air and on the quilt we have here that features a mild-colored background with pink and red triangles and squares on top that are arranged to form an adorable heart shape almost big enough to fill the entire surface of the quilt.

by Amber-oliver

Easy barn quilt

The beautiful quilt we have here is all about contrasting sections, with a main motif of a tilted sawtooth star that has each of its tips made up of two contrasting colors, with a barely visible square behind it and a diamond in its center that consists of four differently colored triangles, all framed with a thin line around the edges of the quilt.

by Nelliebellie

Barn board

At first glance, this quilt seems like a random bunch of squares made of two triangles in different colors, but when you take a better look at it you will notice that those blocks create a splendid pinwheel design that has an additional pinwheel around its edges, made up of four different colors.

by Tweetledeedesignco

Modern barn quilt

Let that contemporary artist in you burst out through this quilt that has a modern art look with a white diamond on a blue base, inside of which there’s a plethora of triangles in different sizes and colors put together to form a Froebel star shape with the same, but tilted design peeking from behind it.

by Chatthillsbarnquilttrail

Intelocking barn quilt design

Put the eyes of your house guests and your family members to the test with a fun quilt that features a simple, yet interesting optical illusion with diamond and square frames in different colors intertwining with each other so you can’t tell which one is on top, finished with a lovely six-point star that has somewhat of a shading effect that pronounces it and makes it as if it’s 3D.

by Pinterest

Simple barn quilt

Simplicity at its best, that’s how you could describe this quilt that has a white background with a bunch of two-toned triangles that resemble those fun wooden jigsaws, arranged to form a large Froebel star with a pronounced square in its center that has a lovely pinwheel design on it.

by Thehouseonsilverado

Dallas Balch Barn “Tumbling Star”

You’ll have a lot of fun as you make this beautiful quilt, with its colored corners and a brilliant large tilted sawtooth star as the main motif that has a smaller identical but contrasting star inside it as well as contrasting ends on each of its eight tips.

by Alabamabarnquilttrail

Opal Romine Barn “Maple Leaf”

Spread those calming autumn vibes with a quilt that bears one of the most beautiful forest motifs, the maple leaf, four of them set in pairs above each other with one pair facing left and the other facing right, each of them made from colorful polygon shapes joined together unto the characteristic Canadian symbol.

by Alabamabarnquilttrail

Mark & Tia Waddell Barn “Postage Stamp”

Here’s a quilt that will help you use up some fabric scraps in different colors as you cut up many small squares in equal sizes and stitch them to create a quilt with a checkered vibrant background and a beautiful large white pixelized diamond in its center.

by Alabamabarnquilttrail

Geraldine Smith Barn “Snake Quilt”

Don’t worry, these aren’t real snakes, it’s just a special kind of quilting design, with blocks that have white backgrounds and contrasting quarter-circles in their bottom-left and top-right corners, framed by a curved wide edge made or many colorful fabric strips, together creating a wavy white line in each block’s middle, resembling a snake.

by Alabamabarnquilttrail

Mark & Amanda Sharp Barn

Play with colors and shapes with the pattern we have here that features a 5 x 4 grid of squares in numerous colors, all decorated with shapes that can be described as square frames with points and triangular edges, some of them being monochromatic while some are completely colorful.

by Alabamabarnquilttrail

Maple leaf – Morning star barn quilt

Go contemporary with a fun new take on a maple leaf design as you use this pattern to create a quilt with a black background that has a small white square in its center out of which thin lines spread towards the quilt corners where a serrated outward-pointing maple leafs in various colors with white edges sit as the main motif.

by Morningstarbarnquilts

Texas Daisy Barn Quilt

Can’t get more serene and gentle than this one, a quilt with a light-colored background with contrasting triangles in its corners, a big blue Froebel star in the middle, and a lovely large white daisy with a yellow circle in its center, right inside the big blue star.

by Waymarking

Spool barn quilt

Show your love for sewing to the world through a quilt that features a beautiful tilted spool in two colors as its central motif, surrounded by two hourglass patches, all set on a white background with the finishing touch being the colored triangles in the quilt corners.

by Nancyzieman

Danforth barn quilt

Here’s a fun one, a quilt with a yellow background and a small hourglass block made of two colors in slightly different brightness levels in its center, surrounded by wide lines made of the same two hues spreading out into the corners, with contrasting triangles at their ends closest to the hourglass patch.

by Scquiltbarntrail

Fabric barn quilts

Barn dance

This is not a clear night sky but it’s full of stars, a quilt with a thin double frame around its edges, a mild colored background, and a 6 x 6 grid of four tip stars with hourglass blocks in their centers, as well as small X marks made of triangles in different colors in the gaps between the stars.

by Bearcreekquiltingcompany

pattern (PDF): click here

Tonga landscape stripes-barn

The quilt we have here will make your eyes dance around with its colorful 4 x 5 grid of blocks made of differently oriented strips in slightly different hues, with fun and creative four-tip star silhouettes that have hourglass patches inside them, set on each of the squares of the grid.

by Ttfabrics

Whether you decide to make some of these quilts to decorate your actual barn, house exterior, or house interior, you’ll be happy with the result just as equally. Be sure to give at least a few of them a go so you can decide which one was your favorite and which one turned out the best. In the meantime, go ahead and subscribe to the mailing list and you’ll get a heads-up when similar fresh content comes out on this website. Enjoy your barn quilts!