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Hand Quilting

Category: <span>Hand Quilting</span>

Hand quilting joins the quilt top, batting and backing layers. Both tiny stitches and big stitches are okay! By hand quilting, the quilt has a softer feel. It is the traditional method for making sure that the batting or filling to a quilt didn’t shift inside the top and the backing.

Some quilters enjoy a hand quilting project, saying that the repetitive stitching is meditative. There is a zen like quality to the rhythm of the stitching.

Browse through these projects to be inspired to pick up your needle and thread and start a hand quilting project!

More Hand Quilting

Scavenger Hunt, I Listened by Heidi Parkes

Spotlight: Heidi Parkes, Fiber Artist

Working entirely by hand, Heidi Parkes can complete a limited number of quilts in a year, so she makes each one of them count. There is much planning behind her…
Artimis

Spotlight: Margot Lovinger, Artist

Combining her fine art training with her love of textiles, Margot Lovinger creates figurative fiber art with layers that evoke the subtle translucency of Old Masters' paintings. With careful planning…
Frankincense

Spotlight Terri Shinn, Textile Artist

Asking "what if" inspires Terri Shinn to experiment with texture and color to achieve her vision of the world, often from a macro perspective. She gets close to her subjects…
Joe Cunningham Autoworld

Spotlight: Joe Cunningham, Quilt Artist

Joe Cunningham was planted in the quilt world when he leaped at an opportunity to collaborate on a project to chronicle the life and work of quilter Mary Schafer. In…