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The Perfect Quilting Patterns, Tutorials, and Supplies for Making Cozy Heirlooms
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items In the midst of my mother being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, I picked up a long buried dream of learning how to quilt to help me through navigating the grief. Here are some dreamy quilt patterns, quilting tutorials, and sewing supplies I've picked ...
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Beautiful Quilt Patterns
Dreamy Quilting Fabric
Quilting Tutorials That Taught Me Everything I Know
Hand Quilting Supplies
Quilting Companies I Admire
Quilting Inspiration
Beautiful Quilt Patterns
Maybe I'm an overachiever, but my to-do list of quilts is quite long already 😂 These patterns for traditional quilts, minimalist quilts, patchwork quilts, scrappy quilts, and quilt blocks are all somewhere on my list or have inspired my own quilt de...
Honestly, this was the quilt that I saw over and over again whenever I started researching what I needed to get started. It's the quilt that made me realize no matter how complicated a patterned seemed… I could do this. So naturally, it had to be on ...
Inner Beauty Quilt Pattern - PDF download
The Alaska quilt, at least to me, is one of the most stunning quilt patterns I've ever laid eyes on. It looks so intricate but it was watching Amish women put it together that I realized how it's all illusion. And the QUILTING that I've seen on some ...
ALASKA Quilt Pattern
One of the things that I found out a month into my quilting journey is that I'm most impressed with the construction of blocks. At first I was intimidated by how much math can be involved, but when actually digging in with cutting and measuring with ...
Northwest Quilt Pattern - PDF Digital Download
What I love most about this quilt is that it reminds me of moroccan tile. So naturally, I'm utterly in love. 😭 I think this would make for a GREAT reversible quilt… 👀
Highlands House Quilt - PDF Download (Beginner Quilt Pattern)
Log Cabin blocks are my favourite block. I'm just mesmerized by them. And when I see the courthouse step version? 🫠 I meeeelllttttt. It's just so stunning! BUT! Though this is not a courthouse step, it's just a brilliant use of log cabin blocks and ...
Lucky Log Cabins PDF Quilt Pattern/ Log Cabin Quilt pattern/ Modern quilt pattern /quilt pattern/ jelly roll quilt pattern
I'm a SUCKER for a good star block pattern, but this? Oh my goodness, it reminds me of the North Star! 🤩 I'm just utterly OBSESSED with this gorrgeeeouusss pattern, and it would make a great gift for the astronomy lover or future space cadet in your...
Stardust Quilt Pattern
Listen, this is one of the most beautiful quilt block patterns I ever did see. It really took me a while to break down how these pieces were put together to bring forth the illusion of all the intersecting lines. It's just masterful, really.
Night Blooms - A Pineapple Block Quilt
This is just one of those quilts that is just absolutely mesmerizing. 😩🤌🏾
Digital Download Summer on the Delta Quilt Pattern, Paper-pieced and Appliqué Pattern, King and Throw sizes, Traditional yet Modern Pattern
White Plains Quilts is just… ugh, they're responsible for such epic quilt patterns that you just need to check out the rest of their shop, for sure.
Summer Revival Quilt - PDF Quilt Pattern
Now this is more of a geometric print that utilizes negative space sooooo well. 😍
The Penny Quilt Pattern by Kitchen Table Quilting
Is this not just stunning? UGH! There are so many quilts to make it's like, will I have enough time to make all my dreams come true?! 🤩🪡
Winter Slumber Quilt Pattern (PDF Download)
This is more of a southwest quilt design pattern, and I just adore everything about it. 🤩
Wayward Quilt Pattern by Casey Cometti for Riley Blake Designs
Glorious.
The Gathering Quilt Pattern (previous mystery) - PDF Download
There's just something so joyful about a pattern that looks simple? But comes together in this just… lush and exquisite way. Inspired by the historic coverlet at Chawton House England (and you know how much I love history!! 🤩), it's so basic, but I'm just enamored with it being called a Jane Austen quilt! Y'know when you rewatch Pride & Prejudice or Sense & Sensib...
Jane Austen Quilt Pattern: Diamond Patchwork Quilt | King Size PDF Pattern
Quilt As You Go Squares are what got me into quilting, seriously. I just… there's something about them that I just… I think it's how imaginative they are, and the fact that they're one of those patterns that you can carry around with you without pack...
Bento Box Quilt-as-you-go Sewing Pattern - Folded Squares Fabric Origami Style Patchwork - Hand Stitching Project - PDF download
I'm a sucker for simple patterns that make these just intricate looking designs. When you take a closer look, it's not so intimidating (maybe making sure the points are pointing will be the most work 😅). But seriously, it's just stunning, it's gorge...
Homebound Quilt Pattern
Dreamy Quilting Fabric
I've only been in the game for a few months and I already have loads of fabric (which I blame on Joann's going down as well the deals were stunning 🤩) I love woodland prints, floral prints that belong in the Cuthbert's home, and anything that remote...
Listen, Fancy That Design House is one of my dream like… ugh. I HAVE ENOUGH FABRIC RIGHT NOW but when I have room to spare, they are honestly at the top of my list of like dream fabrics to make a quilt out of. Right up there with Riley Blake Designs,...
Foraged Found and Hand Me Down Precuts by Fancy That Design House for Moda Fabrics
I love a good jelly roll or fat quarter if I'm not getting fabric off the bolt. Like… they're so versatile for me, and this gorgeousness… 🤩 I have so many plannnnnssss 😂
Curated Fat Quarter Bundle 16 Fat Quarters Art Gallery Fabrics Quilting Bundle Hand Selected
Who doesn't love Moda? I know there are the Liberty Fabric girlies, but mannn… Moda just… there are so many Moda collections that I could just… I fantasize about 😂
Acorn Hollow Bundles Designed by Basic Grey for Moda Fabrics - Half Yards, Fat Quarters and Fat Eighths - 38 pieces
I'm a hardcore Moda fan like they just know how to pick em, and this colour palette just screams, “take me home with you nOW 🙃”
Nantucket Summer by Camille Roskelley for Moda - Fat Quarter Bundles
I don't even know what to say besides the fact that this was a BOSS MOVE by Melissa Gilbert: design fabric? Related to Little House on the Prairie? Yeah. I want. I need. I watched the show farrrrr too many times and read the books to not neeeeeed. 🤩
Evening on the Prairie Bundles: 27 Fall Prints, Melissa Gilbert of Modern Prairie for Riley Blake Designs -Fat Quarters and Fat Eighths
I mean, honestly— would this even be a list without Liberty fabrics? Probbbbaaaabbbllyy not. 😂
Vintage Liberty London Fabric Squares: Tana Lawn Cotton Bundle
This is just so iconic I think it speaks for itself. 🇺🇸
Americana Fat Quarter Bundle (52 pieces) by Lori Holt for Riley Blake Designs, FQ-16080-52
If you're looking for brighter fabrics (I'm prone to using muted and deep colours myself) then this is a go-to pack for you. It's really stunning.
Gentler Times Fat Quarter Bundle (51 pieces), Lori Holt of Bee in my Bonnet for Riley Blake Designs
When I wanted to get into quilting, William Morris prints were what I wanted to start working with. 🙈 I'm a floral person, and I love prints that look like… vintage wallpaper. That's like my vibe. And William Morris is like a warm hug if I'm looking...
Kaffe x Morris & Co. Fat Quarter Bundle - 32 Cotton Fat Quarters
Listen: I know Liberty is like the Chanel of fabric collections. It's the like… super chic everyone loves it blah blah blah… I prefer Tilda 🙈 I DO! I have yet to (even though I added it to the list because) feel the distinct urge that I MUST have an...
Tilda - Sanctuary Fat EIGHT Bundle 20"x11" 20pcs
Ms. Sitar is another designer that is right up there with my fabrics (Riley and Fancy That). I mean her patterns ALONE are just jaw dropping and just… UGH. I really love the simplicity of this fabric collection and how beautifully the colors are mute...
Quiltessential Fabric Collection | Fat Eighths Bundle | Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts for Andover
One of the things that I love about the quilting community is that there are soooo many subgenres of like… quilting styles. Modern. Traditional. Southwestern/Indigenous. Geometric… and it's in the geometric community that I found out about sashiko. �...
AsianFabrics on Etsy - Traditional Japanese Fabrics
This is one collection that I've had my eye on for months. It's rich, it has deep hues that are balanced by my favourite kinds of mauves and mustards, and it's just… the plums are perfection like it's just the right shade of each color, if you get wh...
Dusk Fusion Collection | 10" Square Pack (Layer Cake) Bundle (42 Pieces) | Art Gallery Fabrics
Riley Blake is another designer that just sings the song of my heart. This jelly roll is dynamic, I just love the prints and the color scheme is 🤩
Blush 'N Butterscotch Jelly Roll - Riley Blake Designs - Pink- Cream- Floral Flowers- Spring- Quilting Cotton Fabric
This is fabric that I purchased for my first quilt and I do not regret it one iota. I mean it. 😭 It honestly saved my quilt project because I purchased some questionable (although beautiful) fabric on Amazon that was SUUPPPERRRR THIN and it bothered...
Tinyspool & Co. 40 Strips, 20 Beautiful Prints Premium Quilting American Cotton Fabric Roll - Fall Harvest
This is also fabric that I purchased for my first quilt. No regrets. I'd buy this pack again for another project, to be completely honest. 👀
Tinyspool & Co. 40 Strips, 20 Beautiful Prints Premium Quilting American Cotton Fabric Roll - Cottagecore
I bought the Open Waters for an upcoming project and it's… I had to really research batiks a little bit because I just… I didn't get them when I would hear people mentioning them online. And when I went to Joann's (rest in power) it clicked. I unders...
Artisan Batiks Prisma Dyes Fabric Jelly Roll: Open Waters, Lava Flow, Rainforest, Plum Perfect, Royalty
Quilting Tutorials That Taught Me Everything I Know
The internet is a wonderful place, lemme tell you. ♥️🪡
Ms. Miller is no longer with us, and so her tutorials feel like an heirloom from a grandmother I'll never know. 🥹 Seriously, though. I don't own a sewing machine, I hand quilt. And her tutorials are the BEST that I've found and made it so… accessibl...
How to Hand Quilt with Esther Miller (A Playlist)
There are great things to learn from Sew the Distance, but this is one of my favorite lessons from her.
LABELING Your QUILTS || How I Make Quilt Labels
Donna Jordan passed around the same time that my mother did. I'm teary eyed even adding this recommendation to the list. I learned so much about this subject from her. I mean, I tried learning from other tutorials… but the way she taught us… so passi...
FINISH YOUR QUILTS! How to - BORDERS, BACKING, BINDING, QUILTING - For ANY Quilt Top!!
Listen, wide back fabric can get expensive… and from the very beginning, I wasn't prone to invest in them not because of just the price but because… they weren't as cute as the quilting fabric I found 😂 That being said, I am a scrappy back enthusias...
🤩🤚 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT QUILT BACKING - FINISH YOUR QUILT
Do you starch it before or after? Do you even need to starch? Is starch a sewing notion? 😂 Listen, all your starching questions are answered right here in this tutorial. ♥️
How to Starch Fabric! (Mary Ellen's Best Press TUTORIAL!)
This two part tutorial on how to make the most beautiful color wash, scrappy temperature quilt is just… UGH, this is one of the best temperature quilts I've ever seen!
Temperature Quilt Scrap Style
Hand Quilting Supplies
I'm a slow stitcher, you got it. I know, I know, a quilting machine could speed things up for me… but it's therapeutic. Me, my hands, the fabric, the tools… it's good for me. 🥰
And these are the needles that I use for hand piecing. ☺️
Roxanne Sharps Hand Needles 50/Pkg-Size 10
If you're a beginner, these might be too small. I dunno, I just dove right in 😂 These are the quilting needles that I use. They're wonderful.
Colonial Needle Roxanne Hand Needles, Size 11, 50-Pack
Now if you're familiar with big stitch (and you're not doing the small stitches that I use the Roxanne's for) then you basically need sashiko needles. These are great for the job.
Big Stitch Quilting Needle Pack by Pepper Cory
DON'T SLEEP ON THESE LISTEN TO ME!!!! You can extend the life of your needles with the strawberry!! 🍓 Y'know the little delectable fruit strapped to the tomato?? YEAH. THAT IS A PIN SHARPENER!! 🤦🏾♀️ For YEARS I sat and played with my Gran's, not ...
Dritz Red Tomato Pin Cushion
Sooooo I know these are for embroidery, but I have two. And they work just as great for other sewing projects liiiikkee quilting! And hear me out: I didn't think that they would be as helpful as those like… magnetic needle sticks? But between my pin ...
Needle Minders on Etsy
Gütermann is the standard. 🤷🏾♀️ I mean, I'll piece with just about anything to be honest. I'm not picky. But with the quilting thread? You want it to be quality, because that's where the beauty in quilts reaaallllyyyy is. A good 40-50wt and you're...
Gütermann Natural Cotton Thread Solids 876yd
Now when you go into a place like Michaels, you'll probably be met with Size 5 embroidery thread… not what you want with big stitch quilting. I personally bought Size 5 embroidery floss and tested how my hands would handle it by adding some daisy emb...
DMC Pearl Cotton Embroidery Floss (Size 8 or 12)
This needle puller is AMAZING. Like literally (go read the reviews) and was introduced to me by Ms. Esther Miller. You're gonna want to get one if you do hand quilting it just… it's a game changer, especially when the betweens are so small!
Needle Puller 3-in-1 Thread Cutter Thimble Protector
I thought, “Oh nawwww, I won't need these” listen just invest in them. They'll save your pretty fabrics that you spent all that money on so that you're not crying pulling your quilt out of the washer looking at how your purple fabric bled onto your l...
Shout Color Catchers Laundry Sheets, 72 Ct
You may like the rotary cutter where the blade is all around… that one makes me nervous. I have this one with the guard on the top because… just safety for me. And you know what? It's reallllyyy good! 🥰 I'll add the other one to this list, so you kn...
Fiskars® 45mm Blue Loop Rotary Cutter
Now this is the other kind that I was talking about, and it's really popular. Like… really. 😅 And it's just… when I was looking at it? I had this like, uneasy feeling. And that's saying a lot because I love to cook and work with reeaaaaalllllyyy sha...
Fiskars® 45mm Multiple Layers Stick Rotary Cutter
Seriously? Get you a self healing cutting mat. I thought that I would be missing out by not getting one of those rotating ones that turns on a swivel? But I started cutting my fabric on my dining room table, and it was wood, so the mat just swiveled ...
Fiskars® Cutting Mat
At first, I thought maybe I shouldn't have bought this and it was just gonna be one of those fancy gadgets that I got sucked into before I even started… lemme tell you. I'm reaching for this thing all the TIME when cutting fabric! This has been utter...
June Tailor Shape Cut Ruler (12x12)
Rulers, rulers, RULERS! Just like I said with my bible study essentials list, I don't think you need all the bells and whistles to get started, or to continue when enjoying a hobby. You just don't. Some things are marketed to us just because they make money, and they don't necessarily make it easier on you, it just bogs you ...
Omnigrip 2-1/2" x 18" Non-Slip Rectangle Quilting Ruler
Now I have the neon non-slip one, but this is just as good.
Omnigrid® 6" x 24" Rectangle Quilting & Sewing Ruler
Now listen, I only have the 6 ½" Trim It ruler. It's perfect, it's great for blocks, I really like it. If I didn't have the Shape Cut and the Quilt as You Go templates that I do? I probably would have invested in this whole set. You can also get like...
Trim It Square Ruler Pack - Cute Cuts Square Rulers Set by Lori Holt
LISTEN Y'ALL, THIS WAS MY FIRST eVER NoTION!! I didn't even know what notions were or that they were called this when I purchased these! 😂🙌🏾 These will forever have a place in my heart because I was inspired by Rachel Tomlinson of Stitch with Rachel to finally take the plunge and start working on my first quilt, and I needed these for the project. It evolved and though it is still a quilt as you go quilt, I didn't actually end up using these templates the traditional wayyy… 👀 Which you'll see ...
Quilt As You Go Squares Set by Daisy & Grace for Missouri Star Quilt Company
I'm not sure if I'll ever invest in fabric heat erasable pens. Figuring out which ones work, which ones don't stain too bad, I've been through all the reviews and just… bleh. I'm over it. So when I came across hera markers? I was pretty impressed. An...
Clover Point 2 Point Turner & Hera Marker
Sooooo before I got into quilting, I was a crafter. And had a box of these. I went and got a few packs of safety pins, because they have their uses too, but these basting pins? Who knew they were basting pins in the first place?! And with the yellow ...
Dritz 1-3/4" Extra-Long Color Ball Pins, 250 Count, Yellow Heads, Nickel-Plated Steel
I am a BIG advocate of using what you already own (if you haven't read the commentary on this list, that's the gist of it 😂) and though the Oliso brand is like shiny and sparkly and one of those must have things you see on a lot of quilting channels...
Rowenta Performance Steam Iron DW2350U3, Blue
Now there are scent free and cherry blossom alternatives, I just like lavender a lot 😌 Starch does actually make a difference. You'd be really surprised. I thought it wouldn't be such a big deal but… hey, starching your fabric before you make your c...
Mary Ellen Alt 16 Oz Starch Alternative Lavender
Quilting Companies I Admire
So a lot happened when I started hand quilting— my mother passed, Ms. Donna Jordan passed (who I had been looking up to learning my new skill), and Joann Fabrics closed 🤦🏾♀️ Not saying I was the catalyst, just that I knew that I needed to find alt...
I think it's hard not to put them on this list. I made some of my first purchases from them, because I needed their Quilt As You Go Squares for my first project. 🥰 They've got great deals like all the time (I'm subscribed to their email list) and my first purchase had 20% off and all kinds of add ons. They're cute, they're cool. I approve. 😂
Missouri Star Quilt Co. | Huge selection of quilting precuts & quilt fabric by the yard
I think I mentioned this before, but I'm obsessed. Fancy That is like they walked out of one of my wildest dreams and came up with patterns and collections that I could just… all of them. I want them all. 🤩 If I could collaborate with them in the fu...
Fancy That Design House & Co.
LISTEN this design house is just… UGH! Amber Kemp-Gerstel taught me book binding when my bible was on its last leg, Lori Holt, I own one of her rulers that is just life changing. Danelys Sidron comes up with some epic fabric patterns, and of course, ...
Riley Blake Designs
Not only does she have her blog, Southern Charm Quilts, Melanie has this beautiful online quilting shop that is one you MUST check out. Her fabric bundles are 🤌🏾
Meander + Make
I think remembering where we come from is important. Seeing quilts that have lasted longer than men is just… it's a revolution, I'm telling you. Quilting is so cool and so woven into the fabric of history around the globe. It's awe inspiring to me.
Monarch Landing Antique Quilts - Monarch Landing
Quilting Inspiration
I am a romantic when it comes to quilting. There are people who inspired me to quilt in the first place, and YouTube influencers who I just adore watching them work on their projects (and ignore their UFOs 😂)
The Gee's Bend quilters… yep. One of the reasons why I was really influenced to get started (between them and Susan Hudson) when I realized it was time to stop putting my dreams on hold because others weren't keeping their commitments (I was supposed...
How a Group of Women in This Small Alabama Town Perfected the Art of Quilting | Op-Docs
I felt so SEEN in this documentary! 🤧 Like the stories of these women, it was like… identity. And Ms. Susan Hudson? She is one of the two people that really inspired me to get into quilting, so her story hits me on a whole other level.
American Seams
I've rewatched this seminar on quilting history over and over again. I mean, the information that she presents is just… if you're a serious quilter, just take a look at what's possible. Reallllyyy listen to her.
"Traditional and Modern: Quilts of Gee's Bend" presented by Allyson Allen
This is another one that… it's just a must watch. It's so incredible, seriously.
Power, Purpose, + Perseverance: Visualizing Black History in Quilts by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi
Did you know about getting quilts appraised? 🤯 I mean, this is a billion dollar something industry (another tidbit I didn't know before I started researching while cutting fabric). There is a lot of good information in this documentary as well.
Points of Pride: South Dakota's Quilting Heritage | SDPB Documentary
Amanda's blog was one of the first I came across when I began snooping around the internet for inspiration. Before I knew I was going to dive headfirst with hundreds of dollars on fabric and supplies, I needed a vision. And she (unknowingly) helped m...
A Crafty Fox | Quilting. Books. Lifestyle.
Melanie's blog is another space where I spent a loottttt of time just being totally inspired. She has great tutorials for beginners, classes, and even has her own shop. She's a great resource.
Discover New Patterns and Fabrics with Southern Charm Quilts
Rachel is the quilter who introduced me to my first quilting project and who gives me the most inspiration to ACTUALLY quilt, not just save ideas to Pinterest. 🤭 I love visiting her channel to see how she's doing (and you've GOT to see her temperatu...
Stitch With Rachel
KATE IS AMAZING! UGH! Her projects are just so cool! I really enjoy watching her projects and just listening to her ramble with us as she vlogs her quilting journey! 🤩
The Last Homely House