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Hand Quilting

Category: <span>Hand Quilting</span>

Whether old-fashioned (ahem, classic) or modern, hand quilting designs add the mark of the maker to textiles. You might want to try big stitch quilting or different types of hand quilting stitches. Choose to quilt with or without a hoop and try different hand quilting threads; hey can make simple hand quilting patterns for beginners look special. If you start with small hand-stitched projects, you’ll soon know how to hand quilt a large quilt!

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

Featured Hand Quilters

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...

Life's moments are like tossed confetti from up above. This confetti quilt reflects life's moments. I watch them like a child as they make their way down. There is no way to...

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…
Clover Wedge Iron

Best Sewing and Quilting Notions

Whether you are sewing a garment, home dec, or making a traditional, modern or art quilt; there are some notions that you need to have in your sewing room /…
hand stitching on the quilt

Confetti Quilt

Improvisational piecing results in original fiber art design that evolves piece by piece. The quilt is pieced on my home sewing machine and hand quilted.