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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

Jen Kingwell: Looking Forward - in progress

Spotlight: Jen Kingwell, Quilt and Fabric Designer

Jen Kingwell started quilting with EPP (English Paper Piecing) when she was in nursing school, and hasn't stopped. She got into designing quilt patterns to show her customers what to...

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...

hand stitching on the quilt

Confetti Quilt

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

Big stitch quilting close up

Big Stitch Quilting

Add visual and textural interest to your quilt with big stitch quilting! No longer do you need perfect small and even stitches that can hardly be seen. Stitching now can…
big stitch knot on back of quilt

Quilter’s Knot

Learn how to make the quilter's knot with our simple step-by-step directions. Once you start knotting your thread with this method, you'll knot all of your stitching threads this way!…
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…
Georgia Bonesteel green horse quilt

Spotlight: Georgia Bonesteel, Inventor of Lap Quilting

Georgia Bonesteel has been at the center of the quilting world since the quilting revival of the 1970s. Her innovative lap quilting technique made quilting more accessible without the need…
Field of stars quilt

Spotlight: Martha Steinborn, Crazy Quilter & Stitcher

A stitcher for all seasons, Martha Steinborn is a quilter, embroiderer, crazy quilter and font of information on stitches and threads. Her crazy quilting is lush and keeps the viewer…
Jen Kingwell: Looking Forward - in progress

Spotlight: Jen Kingwell, Quilt and Fabric Designer

Jen Kingwell started quilting with EPP (English Paper Piecing) when she was in nursing school, and hasn't stopped. She got into designing quilt patterns to show her customers what to…
Clover Wedge Iron

Best Sewing and Quilting Supplies

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.

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