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grandchildren coming for a visit I said I still wanted to go to Old Wadena for community and church, the barn quilt class,” said and after learning about Mary. the Barn Quilts of CenIt wasn’t long after tral Minnesota Trail, Mary’s wrist healed she Mary was intrigued by sent Clarence out to buy the colorful quilts remisome plywood. niscent of quilt making. “We went and bought In her free time Mary some plywood and we enjoys quilting and scour- knew what we wanted to ing local stores for the do, and we drew the star right fabric color and pat- pattern and then tried to tern for her next project. make it bigger. Our son Her latest quilts are gifts was up and he helped us for her grandchildren to make it,” said Clarence. celebrate milestones — a To accommodate the new baby and a graduadesign and to ensure the tion. Mary isn’t the only barn quilt could be seen artisan at work in the from the road the couple home. Beaver pelts, fox chose to do an 8 foot by 8 furs and even a reindeer foot barn quilt. pelt hang proudly from “We got started just the their floor to ceiling stone way Lisa told us to and fireplace, hand crafted by went by the directions Clarence who plucked the she gave us. I looked at stones straight from his different designs but we fields. decided on the star design Much like other barn with eight points to repquilt stories, it’s fitting resent our family of that this one also begins eight,” said Mary. Next with a deep appreciation comes the 16 triangles for the art of quilt within the larger star making. which represents the cou“Lisa Kajer came to one ple’s 16 grandchildren. of our quilt group meet“The five ivory points ings in Wadena and talkinside the star represent ed to us about the barn the spouses of our chilquilts. I got really excited dren, and the blue star in about it and thought it the center represents God would be so great to make — the center of our one,” said Mary. lives,” said Mary. Kajer also told the The couple chose Norgroup about the upcomwegian blue and burguning barn quilt classes at dy for their main colors the annual Old Wadena to go with the color of Rendezvous Days celebra- their house and front tion. However, Mary door. The title they chose broke her wrist before for their barn quilt is she could make it to the “ClarMar Family 8”, a class. combination of Clarence “I broke my wrist and I and Mary and their famicouldn’t paint anything,” ly of eight. The barn said Mary. quilt hangs on one of the Despite the setback and barns located on the Horwith their grandchildren sager family farm and is coming for summer vislocated on the Barn its, Mary didn’t let her Quilts of Central Minnebroken wrist keep her sota Northwest Trail. from attending the Old The couple made the Wadena Rendezvous Days barn quilt in 2019, and at celebration where the the time one of their barn quilt classes were son’s wasn’t married, so presented. the five points on the star “Clarence had planned representing spouses a fishing trip for the boys worked at the time. who were staying with us “Our son recently got that summer, and with married, so we didn’t the two more know what to do or how
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Contributed photo / Clarence and Mary Horsager
The “ClarMar Family 8” barn quilt is located on the Barn Quilts of Central Minnesota Northwest Trail. The Horsager family farm is situated just outside of Verndale. daughter-in-law, and of course so they can continue honoring both their family and faith. Pick up a trail QR code card or grab your own Barn Quilts of Central Minnesota Trail map at
to go about including her on the quilt. But she is so sweet and doesn’t mind, so we left it at that,” said Mary. But Mary said they might just have to make another barn quilt to include their newest
The Depot in Wadena, Oma’s Restaurant and Bakery in Wadena, Long Prairie Chamber of Commerce, Staples Depot, or at the Timberlake Hotel in Staples. Stay tuned for the last
installment of the Barn Quilts of Central Minnesota Trail in next week’s edition of the Wadena Pioneer Journal featuring Todd-Wadena Electric Co-op’s story and more.
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