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206 Patchwork Quilt Patterns
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The Patchwork EasyAs Method
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Mattress Sizes
- It's easier to design a quilt when you have know mattress sizes. Use these facts about mattress sizes to make a quilt that fits your bed perfectly.

Rag Quilt Pattern
- Here's an easy rag quilt pattern. The quilt is lap quilt size and is made with squares of two sizes. Colors are arranged to create diagonal movement on the surface of the quilt. A free rag quilt pattern from About Quilting.

Beginner Quilt Patterns
- These beginner quilt patterns are fast and easy -- and all of the patterns on About.com Quilting are free, with detailed instructions and assembly graphics. Get off to a quick start with one of these easy beginner quilt patterns.

Free Quilt Patterns
- Free quilt patterns. Nearly all of these easy quilt patterns are suitable for beginning quilters. Includes free quilting patterns for complete quilts and quilt block patterns.

Five Patch Chain Quilt Block
- The Five Patch Chain quilt block pattern shows you how to make a 10" square Five Patch Chain block. This free quilt block pattern includes a layout example for an entire quilt.

How to Make a Quilt
- Learn how to make a quilt from start to finish. My quilting instructions take you step by step through the quiltmaking process, and include plenty of free quilt patterns to get you started.

Quilting Quiz - Name the Quilt Block
- Take this quilting quiz to see how many traditional quilt blocks you recognize.

Double Nine Patch Quilt
- The Double Nine Patch quilt block pattern shows you how to make a 11-1/4" square Double Nine Patch block. This free quilt block pattern includes a layout example for an entire quilt.

Grandma's Favorite Quilt Block
- A free quilt block pattern for the traditional Grandma's Favorite block.

Free Baby Quilt Patterns
- An index of free baby quilt patterns on the About.com Quilting Web site.

Mitered Quilt Binding
- It's time to sew on the quilt binding, and that means you're almost finished with the quilt! Use these simple quilt binding instructions to sew mitered binding to the sides of your quilt.

Lincoln's Platform Quilt Block
- The Lincoln's Platform quilt pattern shows you how to make a 14" square Lincoln's Platform block. The quilt block pattern includes tips for making an entire quilt.

Hopscotch Baby Quilt Pattern
- The Hopscotch quilt is easy to make, and even beginning quilters will assemble it with easy. Use this easy quilt pattern the next time you need a small quilt.

Double Four Patch Quilt Block
- Make a Double Four Patch quilt with this free quilt block pattern from Janet Wickell.

Black & White & Red All Over
- Here's a super easy strippy quilt that you can tailer to any theme -- grab some juvenile fabrics the next time you need a baby quilt.

How to Make a Rag Quilt
- Rag quilts aren't at all difficult to make, and once you learn the basic technique, you can turn lots of your favorite quilt patterns into rag quilts.

How to Make Quilt Binding
- It's easy to make quilt binding from any fabric. My tutorial shows you how to make continuous bias binding and crosswise grain binding.

Easy Baby Quilt Patterns
- These free and easy baby quilt patterns are perfect projects for beginning quilters who are making a first quilt. They go together quickly, and that means you'll be ready to tackle another quilt pattern in no time.

Learn to Analyze Patchwork
- We can categorize patchwork quilt blocks by the gridded arrangement of their patches. Nine-patch quilt blocks are among the most popular.

Easy Half Square Triangles
- Quilting tips and techniques. Use this quick piecing method to make perfect half square triangle units for your quilts.

Aunt Addie's Quilt Block
- A quilt block pattern for the traditional Aunt Addie's quilt block, a pretty star with quarter square triangle tips. Find instructions for a single quilt block and an option for a 16-block quilt.

Fabric Quiz
- Take the Fabric Quiz to test your knowledge of quilting fabrics.

How to Make a Scrap Quilt
- Tips to help you make a successful scrap quilt.

Sewing Quarter Inch Seams
- Sewing an accurate quarter inch seam allowance is essential for the accuracy of most quilt blocks. You'll find that your quilts go together easily once you've mastered the quarter inch seam.

Rail Fence Baby Quilt
- Use the Rail Fence baby quilt pattern to sew a patchwork quilt that's filled with color. This easy baby quilt is suitable for beginning quilters.

Comforts of Home Quilt Block
- Use this free quilt pattern to make the Comforts of Home quilt block. It's a quick and easy patchwork block that you can make scrappy by raiding your fabric stash. Just one of the many free quilt patterns you'll find on About Quilting.

Measure & Sew Straight Borders
- Measuring straight borders and sewing them to your quilt is an easy process, but there are a few guidelines you should follow to make sure the borders fit right and do the job they're meant to do to support the edges of the quilt.

Pretty in Pastels Baby Quilt
- Pretty in Pastels is a baby quilt pattern made from 6-inch Clay's Choice quilt blocks.

How to Make Quilt Backing
- Quilt backing can be made from any fabric. Use these instructions to make backing for your quilts.

Star Quilt Pattern
- Strip piecing and quick piecing methods help you put this small star quilt together quickly and easily. Its 4-1/2" square star blocks put the quilt somewhere between a miniature and a small wallhanging, helping you get accustomed to small blocks befo...

What's a Fat Quarter?
- We throw the term "fat quarters" around a lot and new quilters always wonder what it means. This explanation and illustration will help you see how a fat quarter differs from a standard quarter-yard cut.

Rotary Cutting Basics
- Use these techniques to rotary cut fabric strips for your quilts. Learn to rotary cut straight grain fabric strips and bias strips. Includes rotary cutting tips to get you off to a quick--and safe--start.

Stars thru Windows Baby Quilt
- Make this easy baby quilt pattern. Called Stars Through the Windows, it's a quick patchwork quilt that beginning quilters can make with ease.

How to Make a Denim Quilt
- You don't have to have a special quilt pattern to make a denim quilt, often called a blue jeans quilt, but there are some patterns that area easier to work with than others. Use these tips to prepare your blue jeans fabric and stitch the denim quilt toget...

Nine Patch Baby Quilt Pattern
- Make a Framed Nine Patch baby quilt with this free baby quilt pattern. This easy quilt pattern is beginner friendly -- so it's perfect for a first quilt.

Floral Rag Quilt Pattern
- Here's an easy rag quilt pattern that gives you an opportunity to use a mixture of large florals, small florals, and maybe some tone-on-tone cotton or flannel prints. Another free quilt pattern from About.com Quilting.

How to Calculate Quilt Yardage
- Use these techniques to calculate yardage for your quilts.

Broken Dishes Baby Quilt
- Use my free Broken Dishes Quilt pattern to make this popular and traditional patchwork quilt. The quilt pattern also includes information to help you make multiple sizes of the Broken Dishes Quilt Block.

How to Make Yo-Yos
- Learn to make Yo-Yos, those little rosettes that are assembled with circles of fabric. You can use yo yos in lots of ways--even if you don't want to make a full yo-yo quilt.

How to Cut Patchwork Shapes
- Nearly all of the patchwork shapes you use in quilts can be cut from long strips of fabric. Learn to rotary cut specific patchwork shapes like squares and rectangles, diamonds, all sorts of triangles and more.

Attic Windows Quilt
- This small quilt is a variation of the traditional Attic Windows pattern. Instead of single windows placed side-by-side, the quilt blocks are composed of several windows in three different layouts.

Pictures of Quilts
- Quilts on display in the quilt photo galleries at About.com. Quilts in our online quilt show were made by talented members of the quilting community.

Cathedral Windows Rag Quilt
- Use my free quilt pattern to make an easy Cathedral Windows rag quilt. The pattern is suitable for quilters of all levels -- even beginning quilters will find it's easy to make this quilt.

Working with Color Value
- Color value is important to quilters, in part because the contrast between fabrics defines our patterns and makes certain elements more noticeable. This easy primer helps you start experimenting with color value in your quilts.

Catching the View, Cat Quilt
- Have fun stitching this free cat quilt pattern from About Quilting, a wallhanging with three appliqued cats looking at a flower garden just outside the windows.

In the Pinks Baby Quilt
- In the Pinks is an easy baby quilt with lots of visual texture running across its surface. Not into pinks? You can change the quilt dramatically by choosing different fabrics.

Rags 'n Hearts Rag Quilt
- Try this free rag quilt pattern the next time you're looking for a quick and easy quilt project. Easy ragged edge applique is used to embellish some of the rag quilt blocks.

Baby Monkey Wrench Quilt
- The Baby Monkey Wrench quilt pattern is just one of the many free baby quilt patterns you'll find on About.com Quilting. You can this easy baby quilt, even if it's your first project. Complete instructions, accompanied by step-by-step illustrations.

Baby Chains Patchwork Quilt
- Make a baby quilt version of my popular Cozy Chains quilt pattern. One of the free quilt patterns you'll find at About.com Quilting.

Bug Jar Quilt Block Pattern
- Here's an easy bug jar quilt pattern. This bug jar quilt block is square, so it's a bit different from some of the bug quilts you might have seen. A free quilt pattern from About.com Quilting.

Quilting Quiz - Quilt Assembly Quiz
- Take the Quilt Assembly Quiz to test your knowledge of quilt making techniques.

Easy Framed Nine Patch Quilt
- One of the many easy quilt patterns you'll find on About.com quilting. Frames that surround this simple nine patch quilt pattern are flip-flopped to create visual movement across the face of the quilt.

How to Make Prairie Points
- Prairie points are little folds of fabric that are used to adorn the edges of our quilts. Use one of these methods to make prairie points and attach them to your quilt.

Color Wheel Basics
- A color wheel is one tool that quilters can use to help them select fabrics for their quilts. There are no true rules for using a color wheel to combine colors, but there are that help you understand how colors interact with each other.

Mock Log Cabin Block
- Here's a free quilt block pattern that looks a bit like a log cabin block--but goes together a lot more quickly and easily, especially when you use chain piecing to assemble it. Another free quilt pattern from About Quilting.

About Foundation Piecing
- Foundation piecing, sometimes called paper piecing, is an traditional quilting technique that's been revived by today's quilters. Foundation piecing is simple--once you've made one foundation pieced quilt you know how to assemble them all.

Scrappy Basket Quilt Block
- This basket quilt block helps you put your scrap fabrics to good use. Mix and match as many fabrics as you like to create scrappy basket quilt blocks for a swap with friends -- or all for yourself.

Vintage Orchards Baby Quilt
- New baby quilt patterns include the Vintage Orchards baby quilt pattern, an easy baby quilt with a vintage look.

Quilt Blocks with Partial Seam
- Some quilt blocks that appear to be assembled using set-in seams can actually be constructed using another technique -- partial seams. Sewing quilt blocks with partial seams is really easy, and the result it a block that looks a lot more complicated than ...

Springtime Baby Quilt Pattern
- Make this pretty Springtime Baby Quilt, a free baby quilt pattern from About.com Quilting.

Pineapple Quilt Pattern
- Make a pineapple quilt that's like one of my quilt examples, or break away and use this free 9" pineapple quilt foundation template to create your very own design.

Patchwork Cat Quilt Blocks
- This patchwork cat quilt block goes together pretty quickly. The block finishes at 12-inches square. Try this quilt block for your next cat quilt.

Setting Triangles
- Quilts with blocks set on point have triangular openings around their outer edges where each diagonal row of blocks ends. Learn how to make setting triangles to fill in the gaps of your on point quilt.

Baby Propellers Quilt Pattern
- Make the Baby Propellers quilt, just one of the many baby quilt patterns you'll find on Quilting at About.com.

Understanding Fabric Grain
- Fabric grain is one of those quilting topics that you might not think is important, but the way you cut your fabric in relation to its grain can produce a quilt that's accurate and easy to assemble--or a quilt that just won't do what you want it to do.

Make a String Quilt
- String quilts are made using a fun and easy type of foundation piecing. Here are some techniques you can use to make a string pieced quilt.

How to Press Quilt Blocks
- Learn how to press quilt blocks to improve your piecing accuracy. Pressing is a quilting technique that improves your accuracy and ensures that your quilt blocks fit together just like they should.

Evening Star Quilt Block
- Learn to make this easy star quilt block pattern, an evening star block with nine patch block centers. This star block is perfect for quilt block swaps, because it's suitable for quilters of every skill level.

Paper Piece a Log Cabin Block
- The best way to learn foundation piecing, sometimes called paper piecing, is to make a quilt block. Log cabin quilt blocks are perfect for paper piecing starters. Try this free quilt pattern from About Quilting.

Table Runner Pattern
- Lots of free quilt patterns and projects from Quilting at About.com.

Broken Dishes Quilt Block
- This Broken Dishes quilt pattern shows you how to make a 15" square Broken Dishes block. Use the quilt block as a medallion center or to quickly assemble a large quilt.

Christmas Table Runner
- Here's a festive -- but easy to make -- Christmas table runner. Sew one for the holidays or change the fabrics to make the table runner suit any theme. Let's work on this table runner like we would a mystery quilt -- no peeking ahead if you see it after t...

Squaring Up Quilt Blocks
- When it's time to sew together blocks from a quilt swap we sometimes discover that the blocks aren't all exactly the same size. Here's an easy technique to help you sew the quilt blocks together accurately.

Scrappy Floating Stars Quilt
- So is this the most boring star block you've ever seen? It just might be, but the star quilt you can make from it sure isn't ho-hum. This star block is definitely easy and it's quick to sew, but when you place the blocks side by side a wonderful pattern e...

Share My Heart Quilt
- I hope you like this quilt, a combination of patchwork with Sunbonnet Sue and Overalls Sam applique quilt blocks.

Skills for New Quilters
- Beginning quilters are sometimes overwhelmed by the hundreds of new terms and techniques they encounter when they make their first quilt, and the confusion is often compounded because there are many ways to accomplish every quiltmaking task. Not to worry-...

Please Rescue this Ugly Quilt
- Please rescue this ugly little quilt, made from a combination of star quilt blocks and snowball blocks. The design has potential, and you can use my quiltmaking boo-boos as a guide to what not to do, so that your star quilt is a whole lot nicer.

Single Irish Chain Quilt Block
- Baby quilt pattern for the Single Irish Chain quilt block.

6-inch Scrappy Heart Quilt Block Pattern
- Quilt block patterns you can sew for yourself, or use for your quilting swaps. Check back often -- my quilt block patterns archive is always growing.

Pinwheel Quilt Block Pattern
- Learn to make a pinwheel quilt. The traditional pinwheel quilt block has only one type of component and goes together quickly, especially when you use a quick piecing technique to assemble it.

Choosing a Rotary Cutter
- It wasn't too many years ago that quilters had only a few choices when it was time to buy a rotary cutter. Things have certainly changed, because now just about every manufacturer who makes rotary cutters lets us choose from a variety of blade sizes, hand...

Around the Twist Quilt
- This small quilt looks more difficult than it is. You'll use basic rotary cutting and strip piecing techniques to make the quilt in no time.

Make a Yo Yo Quilt or Use Yo Yos as Trim
- Lots of free quilt patterns and projects from Quilting at About.com. Use these instructions to make a yo-yo quilt or other yo-yo projects.

Snail's Trail Quilt Pattern
- This Snail's Trail quilt pattern helps you make a quilt that measures about 70" x 77".

Mock Basket Weave Quilt Block
- Grab two striped fabrics and cut a bunch of squares. That's all you need to do to make this mock Basket Weave quilt block pattern.

Easy Pillowcase Pattern
- Use this free pattern to make a quick and easy pillowcase with French seams that keep raw edges under control.

Bear's Paw Quilt Block Pattern
- The traditional Bear's Paw quilt block is always a quilter's favorite. It has lots of pieces, but the Bear's Paw quilt block isn't difficult to make.

About Quilting Swap Hostesses
- An explanation of the quilt swap process on About Quilting and a list of the hosts and hostesses who run the swaps. Come join our quilting forums. You'll find lots of good conversation and plenty of quilting swaps to keep you occupied.

Ragged Edge Dog Bandana
- An easy ragged edged dog bandana to spiff up your doggie's outerwear collection. This soft bandana is easy to wear and you can trim it for a custom fit in no time at all. Even you cats might like this cute little pet bandana.

Friendship Quilt Pattern
- Here's a free quilt block pattern that everyone can make. The quilt block is a version of the traditional Paths and Stiles quilt block. You can assemble the block quickly and easily.

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