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Quilting

Category: <span>Quilting</span>

Get quiltingly creative with fresh inspiration from experts who guide you from which quilting tools and rulers give you an accurate first cut to finishing your creation with free motion quilting, whether you use a long arm or do your machine quilting on your home sewing machine.

Free your imagination with improv quilting or embrace the slow stitch movement with hand quilting. There are so many quilting patterns to choose from (or design yourself), there’s no end to the whimsy you can create!

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Quilting Fun

Cosmic Spirals Close up

Scrap-Happy Stash-Busting Quilts

I love scraps. To me, they are the comfort food of quilts. My first contact with quilts was not the ornate Baltimore Album quilts or the intricately hand quilted whole...

Final quilting from the back

Best Tools for Quilting Projects

Quilting is about taking a good piece of fabric and cutting it up to make something amazing! Whether you make traditional quilts, modern quilts, art quilts or just starting to...

I always pick the thimble shows how to measure your shelves to perfectly fold your fabric

Best Fabric Storage Ideas

Ready for your MSM (Master of Stash Management) degree? I love seeing all the innovative ways that creative people have for storing and organizing their fabric. But the solutions are...

Traditional Quilt Inspiration

Hospital Sketches

Spotlight: Barbara Brackman, Quilt Historian

Was it fate that Barbara Brackman would become a central figure in quiltmaking? An accidental find of a drawer full of vintage quilt blocks ignited Barbara's curiosity, and since then...

Quilt by Philippa Naylor

Spotlight: Philippa Naylor, Textile Artist

Always up for the next challenge, Philippa Naylor takes on anything she needs to do to challenge her skills, grow as an artist and help others to grow, as well....

Two of Us made by Pat Holly and Sue Nickels

Spotlight: Sue Nickels, Quilter, Author and Teacher

Meticulous attention to detail is a hallmark of Sue Nickels' quilts. Inspired by traditional quilts, Sue, often collaborating with her sister, Pat Holly, freshens the designs with nods to current...

Modern Quilt Inspiration

More Modern Quilts
Mapaches Tale Quilt

Spotlight: Paula Steel, Modern Quilter

Distinct shapes, clean lines and clear colors reflect the modern quilt esthetic in Paula Steel's designs. Now designing and quilting full time, Paula's use of line and form to create...

Triangle Joy

Spotlight: Carole Lyles Shaw, Modern Quilter

As a modern quilter, Carole Lyles Shaw focuses on a set of tried and true design principles, resulting in work that is a bold combination of planning and improvisation. Eager...

Repelling Radial by Audrey Esarey

Spotlight: Audrey Esarey, Modern Quilter

Like many creatives, Audrey Esarey dabbled in many artful activities while growing up. But it wasn't until she went to a quilting class with a woman who would later become...

Art Quilt Inspiration

More Art Quilts
Three houses and flowers by Laura Wasilowski

Spotlight: Laura Wasilowski, Textile Artist

When you see a Laura Wasilowski quilt, you can't help but smile. Her whimsical pictorial art quilts use wool, as well as her own hand-dyed fabrics and threads, to depict...

Caryl Breyer Fallert-Gentry Spirogyra2_236k

Spotlight: Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Quilt Artist

An icon in the quilting world, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry paved the way for lovers of machine quilting and bold design. She created quite a stir in the quilt world when...

Unfurling

Spotlight: Frieda Anderson, Fiber Artist

Frieda Andersen is a self proclaimed "Investigator of Ideas".  With a formal education in Art History, she has always been interested in making things - using her hands and mind...

More Quilting

Make a Patriotic Placemat

Be festive this Fourth of July with Patriotic Placemats for your party! Quick and easy quilting project using scraps of fabric - or buy a few fat quarters. This quilted…
Maple Leaf Quilt Block finished

Maple Leaf Quilt Block

The maple leaf quilt block is a simple nine patch quilt block made from solid squares, half square triangles and a square with a center stripe. This quilt block is…
Endless stairs finished layout

Endless Stairs Quilt Block

The Endless Stairs quilt block is a four-patch pattern perfect for beginner quilters. It can be made with 2, 3 or 4 fabrics. It is sometimes referred to as London…
Four patch finished block

How to Make a Four Patch Quilt Block

The four patch quilt block is one of the basic quilt blocks, along with the nine patch quilt block. These are the best blocks for beginners and the good news…
Snowball quilt block finished sampler

Snowball Quilt Block

The snowball quilt block is super easy - you can make them any size! You start with a square of any size and add small squares of any size to…
Close up of tan quilt

Spotlight: Amanda Nadig, Textile Artist

As an art teacher, Amanda Nadig inspires her young students to create in ways that are important to them. As a textile artist, Amanda is most at home in the…
Gingham Quilt Pattern

Spotlight: Elizabeth Chappell, Quilt Designer

Quilt designer Elizabeth Chappell didn't set out to be a quilter, but when quilting found her, she was all in! She wanted to make quilts, but she wanted more. So…
Wonky Star all three blocked trimmed 2

Wonky Star Quilt Pattern

The Wonky Star Quilt Pattern is a fun quilt block to make when you just want to have some fun cutting up your fabric and putting it back together again,…
Old Feelings II, 40 x 40in, 2022

Spotlight: Teresita Leal, Textile Artist

Trained as a scientist, textile artist Teresita Leal began to nurture her creative side when she became a parent. There wasn't a big art quilting community in Argentina at the…

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