Help us to create a Mecosta County Quilt Trail!

Barn Quilts are painted quilt squaresusually fashioned on boards and then mounted on barns or other buildings. Travel through the patchwork of fields and forests on a selfguided tour to enjoy many boldly painted quilt blocks on barns, businesses, homes, and other structures. The pattern for a particular barn quilt may be chosen for many different reasons, i.e. its name, family or property history, or local lore. Quilt Trails are part of a volunteer public art movement extending across the country celebrating our rural heritage and traditional arts. Michigans trail is continually growing.

Mecosta County Quilt Block Trail

If you are willing to volunteer for prepping and/or painting quilt blocks, please join in the fun by contacting Dawn 989 561-5469 or Char 989 967-8153. If you are interested in installing quilt block (2x2, 4x4, 8x8) on your property, please contact one of the persons above or email museum@winntel.net. It takes about one month or more to paint a block (more if several colors are used). We should be set up for painting blocks by Sept/Oct 2013.

Remus Area Historical Society

324 S. Sheridan (M-66) Remus, MI 49340

2 Blocks South of M-66 & M-20 intersection

Museum Hours Open May through October Wednesday 11-3 p.m.

Outdoor Wooden Quilt Blocks for Buildings

Sugar Bowl
This design represents a prized passion which was carefully brought westward by the pioneers.

Flying Geese
The Flying Geese patch is known by several names, including Wild Goose Ch ase, Dutchmans, and Birds in Flight. Geese patches can easily be sewn together in four directions, with two pointing north, two west, two south, and two east in a counter-clockwise movement.

Lone Star
The Lone Star block also goes by the names of Texas Star, Ohio Star, Variable Star. The name is determined by how many colors are used.

Saw-Tooth
The saw was an important tool for the early farmer who cleared his own land and built his own house with its help. The teeth of the saw suggested the name for this block design.

Friendship
In pioneer days, the tops were made at home, during long winter days, and quilted with a group of friends and neigh bors at a quilting bee in the Spring.

See-Saw
The See-Saw block seems to resemble two teeter-totters crossing in the center. This could be done in 2, 3, or 4 different colors.