The 8 Best Online Quilting Classes of 2023

Best Overall: Creativebug

Key Specs

• Cost: $8 to $10 per month
• Skill Level: Beginner to advanced
• Duration: Varies based on class

Why We Chose It

Creativebug offers more than 100 different quilting classes for an affordable subscription price, including lessons for all skill levels and a free trial to test out the service.

Pros & Cons

Overview

Creativebug is an online learning platform that focuses on arts and crafts education. This platform enlists renowned artists who have created thousands of online classes in subjects like painting and sewing.

The quilting section on Creativebug contains around 100 courses with varying degrees of difficulty and time requirements. The most popular lessons will teach you some sewing machine basics that are integral to mastering quilting. For starters, check out one of the most reviewed courses on quilting with fabric precuts. Each class includes a star rating, instructor bio, and related courses.

Creativebug works on a subscription basis, which means you’ll pay a monthly price for access to all the courses in its library. The unlimited membership costs about $8 per month, and there is also an unlimited plus option that costs roughly $10 per month.

There's also a free trial option, so you can see if you enjoy the process before investing any money. This platform is ideal for beginners and more advanced quilters looking to enhance their skill sets with particular quilting classes.

Best for Beginners: Skillshare

Key Specs

• Cost: $19 per month or $99 per year
• Skill Level: Beginner to advanced
• Duration: Varies based on class

Why We Chose It

Skillshare is similar to Creativebug, but this online learning platform offers a great selection of highly rated quilting classes for beginners to get started.

Pros & Cons

Overview

Skillshare is another online learning platform that offers classes across dozens of domains. There are currently about 32 quilting class options on Skillshare, including several highly rated options that are ideal for beginners.

The courses on Skillshare tend to focus on specific projects instead of providing lessons that will touch on a wide range of quilting techniques. For example, a popular course option will teach you how to sew a Hexi quilt top by hand. This project-specific format will work well if Skillshare happens to have a quilt type you want to make.

Skillshare has some user-friendly features that make the platform ideal for online learning. Each course includes a video preview, detailed user reviews, and a discussion forum. You can also see how many people have completed the course, author bios, and related classes.

A Skillshare membership is more expensive than Creativebug because this platform offers more courses overall. However, Creativebug has more quilting courses in its library. For Skillshare, you’ll pay either about $19 a month or $99 annually. If you aren’t sure which of the two options to pick, consider enrolling in a free trial.

Best Variety: iQuilt

Key Specs

• Cost: About $20 to $40 per class
• Skill Level: Beginner to advanced
• Duration: About 5 to 40 minutes per lesson

Why We Chose It

iQuilt specializes in online quilting lessons, offering more than 50 courses taught by experts with a wide variety of topics to learn.

Pros & Cons

Overview

iQuilt’s specialty is quilting, and this company has spared no expense in making sure its website is filled with quality online quilting classes. At present, more than 50 expert-led courses provide exceptional detail.

For instance, one of the bestselling courses is on creating vibrant acrylic quilts. The class is broken down into seven lessons, and you can watch a video preview and read user reviews before you purchase.

One unique feature of iQuilt is the gallery section of each course, where you can see an instructor and student gallery. It can be helpful to see how other students interpreted the course and translated that into a unique quilt design.

Quilting courses on iQuilt are sold on an a la carte basis. Prices range from about $20 to roughly $40, but American Quilter’s Society members can get a discount. Memberships start at approximately $25 per year.

Since you have to pay for each course individually, there is slightly more pressure to pick the right one. Remember to take your time and look through the course library and read the user reviews.

Best for Free: Quilt Addicts Anonymous

Key Specs

• Cost: Free
• Skill Level: Beginner to advanced
• Duration: Varies based on class

Why We Chose It

Quilt Addicts Anonymous offers free online quilting courses, plus coupon codes and discounts to purchase quilting materials directly on the site.

Pros & Cons

Overview

When Stephanie Soebbing set out to learn how to quilt, she could not find many tutorial sites on how to do so. After gaining as much knowledge as she could, she created Quilt Addicts Anonymous, a site that offers dozens of free tutorials for beginner quilters to improve their skills. Her YouTube channel currently has 123,000 subscribers and counting.

Quilt Addicts Anonymous now serves as a resource for quilters of all skill levels, featuring original patterns, tutorials, ideas, the latest in quilting news, and a specific holiday tab during those special times of the year. The site is extremely user-friendly and organized, with everything from basic quilting questions to complex detailed patterns and terms categorized under labels and sub-tabs. New quilters will find the 12-part Beginner Quilting video tutorial the most useful, as it is completely free and you get a coupon code to purchase everything you need along with your pattern download. From a beginner tutorial on quilting a single square to a triangle masterclass, there's a video for everyone.

What's unique about Quilt Addicts Anonymous is that the business is also a shop, where visitors can purchase fabric (by the yard and pre-cut), tools, products, kits, and even sign up for quilting subscription boxes. Soebbing frequently offers coupons and discount codes for users and new subscribers as well.

Best for YouTube: Missouri Star Quilt Company

Key Specs

• Cost: Free
• Skill Level: Beginner to advanced
• Duration: Varies based on class

Why We Chose It

Missouri Star Quilt Company has a popular YouTube channel, where it offers free classes with a large range of topics.

Pros & Cons

Overview

There are several quality quilting instructors on YouTube, but some are more consistent than others. When picking the best YouTube quilting instructor, we considered factors like uploading consistency, view count, likes, and comments.

The Missouri Star Quilt Company on YouTube, run by Jenny Doan, was a standout and currently has more than 850,000 subscribers. There are hundreds of quilting tutorials, and her most viewed videos are one on quilt binding and one on making pinwheels. You can search her video library for what you want to learn, or you can check out her playlists, which act like categories.

There are pros and cons to learning on YouTube. One drawback is that the material isn’t broken into separate video lessons. Also, there is no additional course material in print. And, you have to stop and start the video several times to follow a tutorial.

In a more traditional course, instructors will break down the steps and adjust based on student feedback. The biggest pro to YouTube is that this resource is free, and videos can be easier to follow than blogs with just photos and text.

Best Community: National Quilters Circle

Key Specs

• Cost: Free content, plus memberships for $69 to $129
• Skill Level: Beginner to advanced
• Duration: 10 minutes to 1 hour

Why We Chose It

National Quilters Circle has an online community with fellow quilters and experts for users to ask questions about any quilting topic they need help with.

Pros & Cons

Overview

National Quilters Circle is ideal if you want to learn about quilting and connect with other quilters. The platform has a combination of features like free and premium videos, workshops, mini-classes, patterns, and more.

If you’re just starting to quilt, check out some of the free video content for helpful how-tos and tutorials. More advanced quilters might be interested in a membership to get access to more features. A premium membership is roughly $69, while a gold membership is about $129. The latter includes mini-classes, quilting guides, and direct support.

Gold members have the advantage of being able to troubleshoot quilting issues with experts in the field. Members are also able to connect with and inspire each other with quilting projects. If you do better learning in a group setting, this online community will be the next best thing to in-person classes.

If you want to look into this community further before becoming a member, you’re encouraged to follow their social media channels and try out one of their free project videos. Each video includes a brief description and can be streamed to other devices like your TV.

Best for Experts: Sew on the Go

Key Specs

• Cost: $30 to $299
• Skill Level: Intermediate to advanced
• Duration: Varies based on class

Why We Chose It

Sew on the Go is an excellent choice for intermediate to expert quilters, offering masterclasses and in-depth lessons about advanced topics.

Pros & Cons

Overview

Sew on the Go has several online quilting classes that are ideal for more advanced quilters. The classes are broken down into three categories: technique building, lifetime access, and mini-courses.

Technique-building classes can be joined at any time, but lessons are staggered on a month-to-month basis. When you start a course, you’ll receive one lesson, and then the next lesson will come a month later. This delay is meant to mimic an in-person workshop where you have time between sessions to practice the skills learned. Lifetime access classes are similar to other courses that focus on one quilt design from start to finish. Finally, mini-classes are broken down into smaller lessons that can be seen for a limited time or on a lifetime basis.

If you want to get into the nitty-gritty of more advanced techniques, a technique-building class might be ideal. For example, the Timeless with a Twist series is a 13-part course that will teach you the techniques to master the three quilt designs that you choose. The work will be completed over a year. The cost for this masterclass is about $250, or you can pay in 13 payments of roughly $25 a month.