Barn Quilt
🎨 Painted Barn Quilt Class
Bring bold color and timeless quilt design to your porch, garage, garden shed—or even your living room wall! In this fun and creative class, you’ll design and paint your very own wooden barn quilt, inspired by traditional quilt blocks but made to shine outdoors.
Whether you choose a classic star or a modern geometric design, we’ll guide you step-by-step through layout, taping, painting techniques, and finishing tips to ensure crisp lines and vibrant color. No painting experience necessary—we promise!
You’ll leave with:
- A completed barn quilt block on wood
- Confidence in taping and paint layering techniques
- Ideas for future barn quilt projects (because you will want to make another one!)
All supplies are provided except the paints -- just bring your creativity and wear clothes you don’t mind getting a little paint on.
Come spend the day creating something bold, beautiful, and totally display-worthy. Your barn (or front porch!) will thank you. 🎨✨
Details
Class Name: Barn Quilt
Number of Classes: 1
Class Date: Saturday, February 28, 2026
Class Time: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Class Instructor: Cheryl Ogrisek
Class Instruction Fee: $135
Book Optional: The Barn Quilt Manual by License to Quilt
Skill Level: Confident Beginner
Passport Class: No
Class Passport
We always try to have a diverse class schedule that has something for everyone. To help you take advantage of the variety of classes on our schedule, we offer a class passport to all prospective students. We have three class passports each year, each for a specific class session. Passport 1 covers February-May classes, Passport 2 covers June-September classes, and Passport 3 covers October-January classes. The cost of each passport is $169. Once you purchase the passport, you can take as many passport-eligible classes as you would like for free within that class session. Most of our classes are passport eligible, but please refer to the class details before you sign up to ensure it is passport eligible. This is a great way to expand your quilting skills and knowledge as well as ensure you have dedicated sewing time throughout the class session.
Click here to purchase a class passport.
Class Supply List
Bring bold color and timeless quilt design to your porch, garage, garden shed—or even your living room wall! In this fun and creative class, you’ll design and paint your very own wooden barn quilt, inspired by traditional quilt blocks but made to shine outdoors.
Whether you choose a classic star, a modern geometric design, or something uniquely you, we’ll guide you step-by-step through layout, taping, painting techniques, and finishing tips to ensure crisp lines and vibrant color. No painting experience necessary—we promise!
You’ll leave with:
- A completed barn quilt block on wood
- Confidence in taping and paint layering techniques
- Ideas for future barn quilt projects (because you will want to make another one!)
All supplies are provided except the paints -- just bring your creativity and wear clothes you don’t mind getting a little paint on.
Come spend the day creating something bold, beautiful, and totally display-worthy. Your barn (or front porch!) will thank you. 🎨✨
Supplies:
We've provided four images you might choose for your project. Alternatively, you can select some quilt designs from the Barn Quilt Manual. The choices from this manual are listed below.
The maximum number of paint colors is four so you can finish in class. There just isn’t enough time to do two coats of paint and dry in between if you have more than four colors. Each board will be 24” and cut and prepped for you with primer. If one of your color choices is white, you will still have to buy white in the Valspar paint as primer is not same as the paint.
Once you decide on your quilt design and the colors you want to use, you can head to Lowe’s and purchase paint samples. The containers are typically $5-$6 each. You can choose paint chips from the color wall and have the samples tinted to that color.
You will also need a 12” and 24” long ruler; width doesn’t matter.
Provided by instructor:
- 24” wood board, prepped and primed
- Brushes
- Paint thinner
- Tape
- Lazy Susan
- Plastic table cloths.
Class Preparation:
- Dress comfortably, preferably with short sleeves so you don’t brush up to the paint on the board as you are painting.
- You will be standing most of the time, so wear comfortable shoes.
Barn Quilt Manual:
- Pg 18 - Ohio Star
- Pg 23 - Twin Star
- Pg 25 - Shoe Fly
- Pg 26 - Friendship Star
- Pg 36 - Sawtooth Star
- Pg 37 - Churn Dash.
Class Guidelines
- Emma’s Quilt Cupboard & Sewing Center maintains a strong commitment to education and expanding your quilting skills and knowledge. Because of this, our promise to you is to NEVER cancel a class, regardless of the number of people who have signed up.
- Emma’s Quilt Cupboard & Sewing Center offers a 10% discount for all project classes (excludes weekly or ongoing classes). This discount applies to all fabric, books/patterns, and class-specific supplies that you purchase for class (i.e., specialty rulers). Basic sewing supplies and tools are not included.
- Please note that we have a refrigerator and microwave in the shop’s kitchen. Feel free to use them for your lunch or snack.
- You will only be “officially” signed up for a class when payment has been received. You can sign up for a class on the website, over the phone, in person at the shop, or by mail, using a credit card, cash, or check.
- Our goal is to provide sufficient time during class for you to complete your class projects or to learn a specific technique. However, please remember that some classes may require homework or “catch up” for less-experienced quilters.
- A supply list will be provided for each class. Please have your fabrics and supplies assembled/purchased before the class so that we may start on time. Anyone at the shop will be happy to help you with your fabric selections if you would find that useful. Basic supplies for a quilting class include a sewing machine, cutting mat, rotary cutter, ruler, and basic sewing kit (scissors, seam ripper, pins, etc.).
- Each student must have a legal copy of the class pattern or book to participate. No photocopies or sharing of books or patterns is allowed in class to ensure we do not violate any copyright laws.
- Refunds for classes will be given with a minimum of 1-week’s advance notice. Should you withdraw from a class with less than 1-week’s notice, we will issue a store credit, providing we receive at least 24 hours’ notice.
- Please note for all machine classes: please bring your sewing machine in good working order and be familiar with its basic functions (e.g., threading the machine, changing the needle, needle position adjustment, and stitch length). While we will do our best to help you with any problems, we are not familiar with all machines. Therefore, it is important that you have a thorough working knowledge of your machine. Remember your foot pedal and power cord!
- Please turn off your cell phone, pager, or other electronic devices. If you must take a call, please leave the classroom to do so.
- Many people are allergic to fragrance. Please refrain from wearing perfume to class.