Long time no chat!!! It has been such a fun and enjoyable summer here so far and I hope you are enjoying it as well!
We are going to do a fun give away here on our blog today!
I was sent this wonderful book to review: Barn Quilts And The American Quilt Trail Movement by Suzi Parron with Donna Sue Groves.
Wow - in one word sums this book up. I love barn quilts and every time I travel I search for them! This book is such a great source of information and beautiful pictures. This is one of those books that I recommend everyone have in their book collection!
The Give Away for a copy of this brand new book begins now and will end tomorrow evening (August 9th, 2012) when we will choose the winner and contact them directly via email - so be sure and have your email registered with blogger so that we can get a hold of you if you win - "Anonymous" Bloggers - please note - we cannot contact you without the proper email address!!!!
You can read more about the author and her adventures here on her website:
(you can order this book directly from the above website also!)
and also here on her blog:
And here is a bit more information on this great book!
The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron takes us to twenty-five states as well as Canada to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America’s tourist and folk art map.
Through dozens of interviews with barn quilt artists, committee members, and barn owners, Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves’s desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred and twenty driving trails.
With more than eighty full-color photographs, Parron documents here a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.
Through dozens of interviews with barn quilt artists, committee members, and barn owners, Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves’s desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred and twenty driving trails.
With more than eighty full-color photographs, Parron documents here a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.
Suzi Parron is a quilter, backwoods traveler, an avid kayaker and a folk art collector. She holds a Master of Arts in English from the University of Florida, with a concentration in the literature of the American South. She teaches English at Lakeside High School in Atlanta.
Donna Sue Groves launched the Ohio Quilt Barn Project in 2001. She was formerly the Southern Ohio field coordinator for Ohio’s Appalachian Arts Initiative and the Southern Ohio field representative for the Ohio Arts Council. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2010 Ohio Governor’s Award for the Arts in Community Development and Partnerships.
