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Quilting

Category: <span>Quilting</span>

Get quiltingly creative with fresh inspiration from the quilting community. Learn new techniques with our how-to articles, which 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.

You can start with precuts like charm packs, jelly rolls, layer cakes, or purchase quilt kits from your local quilt shops. We show you which quilting supplies you need, and which ones will just make your quilting life easier.

Start small with table runners or wall hangings before embarking on a larger quilt – just to get the techniques down.

We’ve got you covered on how to organize your fabric stash and how to use those fabric scraps in your next quilting project. So many creative ideas!

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: Scrappy Quilt Patterns

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 and Thread Storage Ideas: Organize Your Stash

Ready for your MSM (Master of Stash Management) degree? I love seeing the innovative ways creative people store and organize their fabric. But the solutions are not one-size-fits-all. What works...

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
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...

Party Conversation by Irene Roderick

Spotlight: Irene Roderick, Textile Artist

Initially trained as a painter, textile artist Irene Roderick came to quilting when she was looking for ideas for a bed quilt (her first), and discovered the work of Denyse...

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 Spirogyra art quilt

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

Melon Sky by Ann Feitelson

Spotlight: Ann Feitelson, Quilt Artist

With formal training as a painter, quilt artist Ann Feitelson dedicated the first years of her art career to using a paintbrush, creating landscapes and still lifes with vivid, expressive…
Ribbon Star finished quilt block

How to Make the Ribbon Star Quilt Block Tutorial

The Ribbon Star Quilt Block is a quick and easy quilt block using half square triangles and squares. It is generally made with three fabrics, two for the ribbons and…
Variable Star finished quilt block

Variable Star Quilt Block Pattern: Free Tutorial

The Variable Star Quilt Block is a variation of the Ohio Star quilt block, using four (4) fabrics instead of just two (2) fabrics. It is a nine-patch layout quilt…
Quarter Square Triangle finished

How to Make an Hourglass Quilt Block: Free Tutorial

Hourglass quilt blocks are also referred to as quarter square triangles. They are a basic quilt block you can use alone or combine with other blocks to form more intricate…
Ohio Star 1 finished

How to Make the Ohio Star Quilt Block: Free Tutorial

The Ohio Star Quilt Block is a basic nine patch quilt block made from quarter square triangles and squares. This classic block is popular in both traditional and modern quilts.…
Rainbow circles quilt by Annabel Wrigley

Spotlight: Annabel Wrigley, Textile Artist

A common thread in textile artist, designer and author Annabel Wrigley quilt designs is joyful, playful color. This busy mom designs quilts, writes books, publishes patterns, designs fabric and teaches…
Pulsar by Yvonne Fuchs

Spotlight Yvonne Fuchs, Modern Quilter and Designer

Most people fear rejection. Instead, Modern Quilter and Designer Yvonne Fuchs actively pursues it, pushing her skills to discover her strengths and the processes that best express her vision. The…
Out of the Funk by Claire Passmore

Spotlight: Claire Passmore, Textile Artist

Taking the art quilt to new dimensions - 3 dimensions, textile artist Claire Passmore pushes herself to explore experimental materials and processes to achieve her vision. Claire works spontaneously, but…
Alcazar Blooms by Tighe Flanagan

Spotlight: Tighe Flanagan, Quilter and Designer

Life takes interesting turns, and a stint teaching in Jordan for the Peace Corps ignited a passion for the geometric grids and patterns of Islamic art, transforming Tighe Flanagan from…

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