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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

Kibun Mood by David Owen Hastings

Spotlight: David Owen Hastings, Textile Artist

David Owen Hastings is a textile artist whose work appeals to those who love organic processes and the beauty of nature, color and texture. David combines his monotype-printed paper with…
Darby Road

Spotlight: Kristy and Shayla, Sassafras Lane Designs

Sassafras Lane Designs is a mother and daughter team, designing quilt and bag patterns. A perfect match as business partners, each brings a different set of skills to the table,…
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…
Finished celtic applique pillow

Celtic Appliqué Throw Pillow

Begun in a class with Nancy Lee Chong, this appliqué lesson became a Celtic Appliqué Throw Pillow. Bias strips, stitched with needleturn appliqué, became an intricate design with Nancy's pattern…
Passion in Paradise

Spotlight: Kristi Leduc, Art Quilter

Meet Kristi Leduc, an art quilter whose textile journey may seem familiar to many fiber artists. Designing and sewing for childhood dolls grew into designing clothing for herself. Then she…
Clover Wedge Iron

Best Sewing Supplies and Quilting Tools: My Must-Have List

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 /…
Finished longarm quilting on Lane's Quilt

Long Arm Quilting Ideas

As a longarm quilter, I get the opportunity to bring magic to the quilts of my clients. Here are a few of the many quilts I've quilted with love, in…
Quilts of Valor quilt with a veteran

Quilts of Valor – Honor Veterans with Quilts

The Quilts of Valor Foundation is dedicated to wrapping every veteran "touched by war" in a warm comforting quilt. My brother was honored on the 4th of July.
Lorraine Torrence Shifting Perspectives

Spotlight: Lorraine Torrence, Textile Artist

I am a quilter and wearable art maker and have been doing both since 1971. I now design and make patterns so people can make their own wearable art.

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