Wisconsin Barn Quilt

A drive through Shawano County is a lot more colorful today than it was a few years ago. That's because more than 350 brilliant "quilt blocks" called barn quilts, are on display on barns through out the county. The Shawano County barn quilt project was started by a local writer/photographer Jim Leuenberger in 2010 after he had seen barn quilts in Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon and southern Wisconsin. So in June 2010, he proposed the idea to a local 4-H clubs for them to paint the quilts as a possible club service project. Since then several clubs, barn owners, businesses and individuals have supported the project through sponsoring a quilt and/or having a quilt put on their barn. From there the project continued to expand and has become a tourism attraction thru out Shawano County and the Unioted States.