Make your own DIY mini barn quilt art to go in your house – instead of on the side of your barn! Just kidding, I know you don’t have a barn!
Have you ever heard of a barn quilt? Until a sweet reader emailed about her barn quilt couple of months ago, I hadn’t either. But I’ve since decided I love them and wanted to make a mini barn quilt for our house.
Basically a barn quilt is a quilt square painted onto a board and mounted to a barn. Although they’re starting to pop up on sheds and houses too.
Now I don’t live on a farm and my house is definitely not a country house (we live in a suburb of Toronto with a population of 141,500+). But when I was in Michael’s looking for craft supplies I stumbled upon some square craft plaques and they made me think of barn quilts – rather, mini barn quilts.
Supplies
- Unfinished square plaque
- Cream or off-white paint
- Dark walnut stain
- Paint brush
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Paint marker (optional)
Instructions
1. Using a lint free cloth or foam brush, stain plaque with dark walnut stain. Let dry.
For a step-by-step tutorial on how to stain wood, check out this post.
2. Using a ruler and a pencil mark a grid of 3×3 equal squares.
3. Then mark off from corner to corner of squares as shown below.
4. Before painting, be sure to mark which triangles get painted and which stay blank. I did this by putting a white dot in the paintable triangles with a paint marker (see photo above).
5. Carefully paint the marked triangles. Let dry.
6. Lightly go over the whole piece with fine grit sandpaper to age.
Do you have a spot for a full size barn quilt? Or is this little one more your size?
xo,
Shannon
