Quilting Department
Quilt crafts are for more than dressing your bed! Today, quilting is used for home décor, clothing and much more.
Our Quilting department will show you the basics and teach you piecing techniques. You’ll find tips and hints, quilt blocks, free projects and even a quilt shop finder to help you find your local quilting store. And for the more-advanced quilter, you’ll find information on the foundation or paper piecing technique of quilting.
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New Tutorials and Pages
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This DIY alphabet play mat pattern is perfect for sewing beginners and comes together fast! Learn how to sew a quilted play mat.
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Find the perfect plan for making quilts from fat quarters. Use coordinating precuts to make your quilt quick, easy and inexpensive.
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This fun Valentine snack mat is just the right size for a beverage and a snack. Celebrate Valentine's Day all year long with this cozy quilted mug rug!
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Learn How to install Kam snaps using Kam snap pliers. These plastic snaps are great to use in many sewing projects. Try plastic snaps for clothing!
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This tutorial will show how to make fabric postcards. These are fun small sewing & quilting projects that use your creativity.
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Learn how to easily widen your quilt backing fabric with a simple vertical strip set. Watch our video or read our post for a fun pieced strip idea!
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Learn the art of strip piecing, a technique used to make quick and accurate pieced squares.
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Looking for a quick and very usable quilting craft? Make a mug rug that is like a coaster but just the right size for a mug and a snack. They are fun to make and beautiful to look at.
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Make a warm and cozy puff quilt, also known as a biscuit quilt, by sewing puffy squares together. This page includes other puff quilt patterns such as a doll quilt, tote bag, pet bed and more.
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Find free patterns for quilted tote bags, quilted purses, and handmade pouches that will all be put to great use! And they are so fun to make as well!
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Explore the many free jelly roll quilt patterns as well as other jelly roll projects. These fun precuts reduce cutting and speed up sewing!
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Find free English paper piecing patterns and English paper piecing templates using hexagon paper piecing along with many other creative shapes.
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This easy four patch quilt is a great project for a beginner quilter. It uses charm packs and some coordinating yardage and goes together quick and easy.
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Quilt panels make for a quick and easy quilt project. Look here for unique uses for fabric panels for quilting along with panel quilt patterns and ideas.
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Learn how to make a fidget quilt with our free video and photo tutorial. A fidget quilt is a lap quilt which helps provide stimulation for the fidgeting hands.
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Learn how to sew an easy table runner in less than an hour. Make this quick 4 seam table runner as a gift! Also named the 10 minute table runner.
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Gather up all of those beautiful fabric yo-yos and use them to make some or all of the exciting quilt yo-yo patterns and other projects found here!
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How to Machine Quilt with the Serpentine Stitch
New Stuff
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Here are some ideas for making quilt backing.
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A Quilter's Table
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Get inspired by these modern quilt pieced backing ideas. These simple quilt backing patterns will take your quilts to the next level!
From
Designed To Quilt
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This guide will help you piece the perfect backing with common quilting cotton. Just follow these three steps and you’ll have a perfect-sized quilt backing in no time!
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Wax and Wane Studio
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Learn how to sew backing with novelty prints or repeat patterns so you don't see the seam.
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Patchwork and Poodles
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This photo tutorial shows you how to use a washable glue stick to easily, fast and efficiently match up those prints along your quilt backing seams.
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Suzy Quilts
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This tutorial shows how to match fabric prints when enlarging a quilt backing.
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Shannon Fraser Designs
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You can stitch the orphan blocks or leftover blocks into the backing of the quilt.
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Mama Love Quilts
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Preparing a quilt back can be as simple as sewing two pieces together, or piecing until large enough for your quilt top. Learn how here.
From
Amy's Creative Side
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Enter the quilt length and width in the calculator and the dimensions of the Backing will be displayed, along with how many yards of fabric are needed. Also has a metric system calculator.
From
Down South Quilting
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Missouri Star will help you figure how much fabric you need when using standard 42? wide fabric to make a quilt backing.
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Missouri Quilt Co