Search Browse by date Wed, Jul 29, 2009 Tue, Jul 28, 2009 Mon, Jul 27, 2009 Sun, Jul 26, 2009 Sat, Jul 25, 2009 Fri, Jul 24, 2009 Thu, Jul 23, 2009 Wed, Jul 22, 2009 in Choose. BENTONVILLE - For the last several years, Barbara McPhee of Rogers and four of her friends have traveled to her family’s home in southern Wisconsin for a week of milder weather and friendship. In 2002, the women were driving through the Wisconsin countryside when they became intrigued by the old barns along the way. Over the course of the next five years, the friends traveled once a year to Wisconsin, where they bought fabric and worked on their barn quilts, and gathered the history of each of the barns they were quilting along the way. The end product was five quilts that depict the barns of southern Wisconsin during different times of the year, each with different elements waiting to be found in the quilt patterns, said Leah Whitehead, executive director of the Peel House Foundation in Bentonville.

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