Heading back south by yet another route we stopped in Georgetown, Kentucky and discovered a lot more barn quilts within the city limits.
The barn is actually located a few miles east of town along US460.
Like the Kansas City Fountains finding and identifying barn quilts can get very complicated very quickly. There are multiple listings and multiple web sites that show various sometimes overlapping sets. I have identified specific GPS coordinates for almost all of my quilt photographs and made a start on organizing them. If I get A ROUND TOIT I may be able to share a map and detailed index in the future but don't hold your breath. I really have fun photographing not organizing.
Saying that leaves me in somewhat of a quandary with my index identifying over 200 and a lot of photographs left to index. Just for 2011 I have over 1300 photographs, obviously multiples of most quilts, but a whole bunch. For right now I am concentrating on getting our travels more up to date since that is likely of more interest that quilts, and quilts, and quilts, and quilts!
In our many years of travel we have seen these quilt patterns mounted on barns in many areas. Apparently they originated in southeastern Ohio, but Kentucky has embraced them as a program of community pride.
The Morehead, Kentucky visitors center had a brochure with barn quilt locations.
For this first set they are pictured as collected showing what we actually found.
Later on I have taken many and processed them to show only the quilt pattern and in several cases even reconstructing the pattern from scratch when the original was badly weathered. All total from several quilt hunts I have about 400 locations some of which are very similar. As I get to later years this page will fill with a lot more examples.