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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...

Fabric folded and fabric wrapped on comic book boards

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

Solar Flare quilt by Amber Elliot

Spotlight: Amber Elliot, Modern Quilt Designer

Amber Elliot leverages her background and knowledge as a software engineer to design modern quilt patterns and manage her digital membership and subscription box service. Inspired by nature Amber's designs…
quarter log cabin layout option 2

Quarter Log Cabin Quilt Pattern

Start with a square and then add strips to two sides to make the quarter log cabin quilt pattern. A variation of the traditional log cabin quilt pattern, his makes…
Wonky Log cabin quilt finished

Wonky Log Cabin Quilt Pattern

The wonky log cabin quilt pattern is a version of the traditional log cabin quilt block. A perfect pattern to use up your fabric scraps. All you need is a…
Story Hour Plot Twist quilt by Donna Mcleod

Spotlight: Donna McLeod, Modern Quilt Designer

Donna McLeod designs modern quilts that she can put together in a single day. Her designs are approachable and versatile. Donna is a finisher! You won't find a stack of…
Turquoise and green quilt

Spotlight: Marie Bostwick, Quilter and Author

Marie Bostwick believes everyone is born with an innate gift of creativity and she lives it daily between writing best selling novels and creating carefully crafted colorful quilts. Having lived…
Finished four squares for the underground log cabin quilt block

Log Cabin Quilt Pattern

Log cabin quilt pattern is a well-known and popular traditional quilt block, with strips sewn around a center square. Some sources claim that the log cabin quilt pattern is the…
Mont St. Michel by Linda Schmidt

Spotlight: Linda Schmidt, Fiber Artist

Fiber Artist Linda Schmidt thrives on taking an unexpected substance and transforming it into a perfect visual adaptation on one of her art quilts. Known for creating award-winning quilts and…
Disappearing four patch finished

Disappearing Four Patch

The disappearing four patch is an easy quilt pattern that starts with the basic four patch quilt block that gets cut and sewn back together again. There are several ways…
Calico Messengers by Lorriane Turner

Spotlight: Lorraine Turner, Textile Artist

When textile artist Lorraine Turner discovered she had a gift for communicating with animals, her art took a dedicated path that has sustained her ever since. Lorraine maintains a consistent…

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