Quilting Basics

Master the basics of quilting with access to beginner patterns, tips and tutorials to teach you everything you need to know.
English paper piecing finished product and supplies
Learn How to English Paper Piece in No Time
An illustration of a man sewing a quilt with a cat sitting on it
How to Craft Your Own Quilts
Tips and Techniques for Designing Quilts
Quilt fabric
How to Do a Fabric Burn Test to Identify Fibers
How to Make Quilt Backing
Learn How to Make Quilt Backing From Any Fabric
How to bind a quilt
Sewing a Mitered Quilt Binding Is Easy With This Tutorial
How to Make a Scrap Quilt
Grab Your Leftover Fabrics and Make a Gorgeous Scrap Quilt
Bundle of colorful patchworked comforters with unicorn and stars design on white background - three pieces
Use This Step-by-Step Guide to Create a Lush Puff or Biscuit Quilt
Stack Of Rolled Textile By Wall
What a Quilter Needs to Know About Fat Quarters of Fabric
A rag quilt draped on a chair
How to Make a Rag Quilt From Start to Finish
Rotary Cutting Fabric for Quilts
Use This Easy Method to Make Quilt Binding Strips
Tools for beginning quilters organized neatly
Learn the Basic Tools Every Beginning Quilter Needs
A close up photograph of a needle from a sewing machine
Easy Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern
Facts About Fabric Grain
Facts About Fabric Grain that Every Quilter Should Know
marble texture on fabric
Create Unique Hand-Marbled Fabrics for Quilts and Other Projects
fabric rolls in a room and scissors cutting off a piece of fabric
It's Easy to Calculate How Much Fabric Is Needed to Make a Quilt
How to Paper Piece a Quilt
A Beginning Quilter's Guide to Paper Piecing
handmade paper snowflakes and scissors
How to Cut Easy 6-Sided Snowflakes From Paper or Fabric
Process cutting fabric pieces by rotary cutter on mat using ruler
Learn How to Make Easy String Quilts
fabric cutting table
Tips to Help You Set up a Fabric Cutting Table
Recycled Denim Quilt
Recycle Your Blue Jeans and Denim Skirts to Make a Quilt
Machine quilting sewing sewing a flower pattern.
Use These Machine Quilting Options for Beginners
Stitch in the ditch machine quilting
Learn How to Do Stitch in the Ditch Quilting
Quilt hanging over a rustic fence
Learn How to Make Quilt Sashing With Cornerstones
How to Make an I Spy Quilt
Kids Love I Spy Quilts and the Projects Are Easy to Make
How to Rotary Cut Squares
Cutting Patchwork Shapes for Quilts
Wool, rayon and cotton thread spools
Use These Tips to Choose the Best Threads for Machine Quilting
Miniature Quilt
Look at These Lovely Landscape Art Quilts
Rotary Cutting Safety Tips
What Every Quilter Needs to Know about Rotary Cutting
magic-8-half-square-triangle-units
How to Make Magic 8 Half Square Triangle Units
We make what you want. Top view of young workers, man and woman looking at the result of printing t-shirt in the silk screen printing machine at workplace
Print on Fabric With an Inkjet or Laser Printer
Patchwork log cabin blocks, stack of blocks, sewing accessories on white wooden surface
10 Quilting Techniques Every Quilter Should Master
Quarter-Square Triangle Units in a Quilt
It's Easy to Make Quick Pieced Quarter-Square Triangle Units
How to Troubleshoot Sewing Machine Tension
The Ins and outs of Troubleshooting Sewing Machine Tension
Quilts stacked on white wall background
It's Fun to Sew Small with These Miniature Quilt Patterns
Color Wheel
Try a Few Color Wheel Basics When You Aren't Sure Which Fabrics to Choose
Beautiful colorful quilts
How to Choose the Best Threads for Patchwork and Quilting
How to Press Quilt Blocks
Accurate Pressing Can Instantly Improve Your Quilting Skills
Preparing of triangle pieces of fabrics for sewing quilt blocks, rotary cutter, rule, craft mat, stack of fabrics
How to Cut Setting and Corner Triangles for On-Point Quilts
Close-up view of sewing machine pressure foot and needle.
How Your Sewing Machine's Feed Dog Helps You Stitch Better
Use These Tips and Techniques to Make a Charm Quilt
Strip Piecing Tips for Quilters
Strip Piecing Tips and Troubleshooting Advice for Quilters
Quilt with Basting Stitches
Use These Tips to Learn How to Make a Quilt Sandwich
Compare Mitered and Straight Sewn Quilt Borders
Quick Tips to Help You Sew Mitered Borders to a Quilt
Piles of folded batik fabric in a multitude of colors.
These Are the Pros and Cons of Prewashing Your Quilting Fabrics
Sewing a button
Choose the Best Hand Sewing Needles for Sewing and Quilting Projects
Sewing machine walking foot
Use a Walking Foot to Make Quilting a Breeze
Example of a UFO Quilt
What Does the Term UFO Mean to Quilters?
Gorgeous antique bed
How to Buy a Mattress for an Antique Bed
Stacked bolts of brightly colored fabric
Do a Fabric Bleed Test to Check Dye Stability
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Smartphone Apps for Quilters
Stitching a quilt by hand using specialized knots
Easily Secure Quilting Stitches With This Quilter's Knot
selvage edge
What Is Fabric Selvage (Or Selvedge) in Sewing?
Baby Boy On Vintage Quilt
80 Inspiring Boy Baby Quilts Ideas
Quilting block from bright square pieces of fabrics, pincushion, stacks of square pieces of fabrics, quilting and sewing accessories
Top Tips for Choosing the Best Scissors for Quilting
How to Fussy Cut Fabric
What Are Fussy Cut Fabrics and How Are They Used?
Sewing Machine Throat Plate
How Does a Sewing Machine Throat Plate Help You Sew?
Learn How to Use a Color Wheel
Combine Color and Contrast to Sew Gorgeous Quilts
Log Cabin Quilt on Bed
Spark Winter Project Ideas With These Log Cabin Quilts
Patchwork quilt lying on the bed.
This Is What Patchwork Is and How to Use It
Person using an iron to pressing a seam open on a blue-and-white striped fabric.
Learn If You Should Press Quilt Seams to the Side or Open
Illustration of a hand ironing an applique
Applique Techniques You Can Use to Make Quilts
Striped Scallops Quilt Pattern
Sew Modern Quilts With Squares, Rectangles, and Half-Square Triangles!
A t-shirt quilt
How to Make a T-Shirt Quilt