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Machine Quilting

Category: <span>Machine Quilting</span>

Congratulations, you finished your quilt top! Now it’s time for machine quilting! Whether you have a long arm quilting machine or quilt on your domestic sewing machine, choose a quilting design that enhances your quilt. It might be straight line machine quilting, a classic feather or a free motion meander. You can learn how to quilt both large and small quilts. Just like quilters, beautiful machine quilting patterns are all shapes and sizes.

Browse through these projects and inspiration for your next machine quilting project.

Machine Quilting Inspiration

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...

Close up of two color quilt with amazing stitching

Spotlight: Cindy Needham, Quilting Instructor

Cindy Needham caught the quilting bug at a young age, inspired by traditional quilts she saw while growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. By incorporating vintage linens into her...

Circular Fascination

Spotlight: Cheryl Malkowski, Quilt Designer

Hooked on quilting from the moment she tried it, Cheryl Malkowski has crafted a career from her passion. In addition to designing for fabric companies, Cheryl shares her enthusiasm for...

Straight Line Machine Quilting Inspiration

Homage by Jacquie Gering

Spotlight: Jacquie Gering, Modern Art Quilter

Jacquie Gering begins each quilt with an idea, but lets inspiration lead throughout her process, sometimes taking the work on unexpected, but welcome, turns. Known for her use of clean,...

Love quilt by Sophie Zaugg

Spotlight: Sophie Zaugg, Modern Quilter

With a love for bold color, graphic design and an urban esthetic, modern quilter Sophie Zaugg creates eye-popping visual art with needle and thread. Like many modern quilters, Sophie began...

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...

More Machine Quilting

Compassion

Spotlight: Hollis Chatelain, Textile Artist

Inspired by her humanitarian work in Africa, Hollis Chatelain creates art quilts that raise awareness of the human condition in the third world. Back in the States, she wanted to…
Piccadilly Square

Spotlight: Gyleen Fitzgerald, Writer and Quilter

Gyleen Fitzgerald makes quilts that blend color, pattern, and texture to provide a contemporary sensibility to traditional quilting. Her engineering tools and innovative techniques simplify the construction of visually complex…
Simple Joy by Earamichia Brown

Spotlight: Earamichia Brown, Fiber Artist

Earamichia Brown always wanted to be a fashion designer. But she always excelled at academics, so she started her career as a lawyer. Now she follows her dreams and communicates…
Starry Night on a Sunny Day

Spotlight: Heidi Proffetty, Textile Artist

Starting with a photograph depicting an important person or event in her life, Heidi Proffetty creates art quilts in the style of mosaics. Her innovative use of a digital cutter…
Winter Penguins Banner

Seasonal Door Quilts Make the Year Go ‘Round

When I worked for a quilt shop, I made small quilts as store samples. Before long, I had a "collection". I shared most, but kept some. I like to decorate…
Poppies

Spotlight: Jenny Lyon, Quilter and Garment Maker

With good instruction and practice that brings you joy, successful free motion quilting is at your fingertips. Ask Jenny Lyon how she knows - she wrote the book, after all!…
Amanda Lein Quilt

Spotlight: Amanda Leins, Quilter, Author and Teacher

Amanda Leins is a Modern Quilter who approaches her art and craft with an archeologist's eye. She loves mixing ancient art and architecture with modern design sensibilities. She shares her…
american stars custom machine quilting by natalia bonner of piece n quilt

Spotlight: Natalia Bonner, Quilter and Author

At the age of 8, Natalia Whiting Bonner entered her first tied quilt, made from drapery and upholstery scraps, in her local fair. She won $1, and that pumped her…
Timi Bronson Collard Greens

Spotlight: Timi Bronson, Quilt Artist

Timi Bronson began sewing and creating as a young child. It wasn't until she tagged along to Paducah with her mother and sisters that she discovered art quilts and knew…

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