Wisconsin Barn Quilt: Coloring Book Four

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.