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The finished Bluey Quilt!! My daughter loves it! The patterns are slowly rolling out but you can find more information here!

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New bat pattern inspired by the traditional block Clay's Choice

Carmilla's Choice

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I have a few free patterns here

As well as low cost patterns here

If you’re looking for some free to low cost quilt patterns, I have a few sites in my favs you may be interested in checking out. Many of these quilters are on Instagram. If you have an account (I do not), consider following them. They offer free patterns, designs, tips and tricks, and other nifty things.

FPP = foundation paper piecing

Unicorn Harts - FPP, all patterns are great for beginners, and many of the patterns are free. I love her patterns and highly recommend them. If you’re looking for zodiac stuff, this is a great designer to consider.

Violet Craft - FPP, patterns range from beginner to advanced, and many are free as well as low cost. She has full quilt patterns instead of just blocks available.

Quiet Play - FPP, patterns range from beginner to advanced, several are free as well as low cost. She has blocks and full quilt patterns. Lots of free Star Wars blocks as well as a pattern for making a quilt using those.

Fandom In Stitches - FPP, 100% free, but take note that what you make with most of these patterns cannot be sold. What you make must be free as gifts, trades, or kept for yourself. I used this site for the last Quilt Block Swap.

Lilly Ella - FPP and traditional, many free and low cost, geared more towards moderate and advanced but a few are good for beginners. Those butterflies I recently made? Her pattern. She has blocks and full projects, like making a sewing machine cover and fabric baskets.

Sew So Easy - FPP and traditional, everything is free. From the very beginners to advanced, clothes, various projects, quilts, all of it is free. They put out a newsletter every week with new stuff on the website.

Gnome Angel - FPP and traditional, free and low cost, PDF and physical books, full quilt patterns as well as individual blocks, and she has quilt-a-long events. If you’re looking for a quilt that uses 100 different blocks for less than $30, this is who you should check out. They write the patterns with FPP and traditional quilt options.

Teresa Down Under - FPP and traditional, free and low cost, PDF and physical copies, full quilt patterns and individual blocks. She’s the one who taught me how to FPP! She loves interacting with her followers and teaching people how to quilt. She has a Youtube channel as well!

Sew Hooked - FPP and traditional, free and low cost, and has a lot of fun fandom things to check out. Beginner and advanced options. They participate in quilt events, like sew-a-longs, and give reviews on a few things.

Generations Quilt Patterns - FPP and traditional, all free, very beginner to advanced. There aren’t any full quilt patterns, just blocks. Still my favorite website to use for figuring out patterns I wanna use. An excellent site for making a sampler quilt (a quilt made using a bunch of different blocks).

Carol Doak - FPP, free, beginner to advanced. The quilt block designer who made my favorite quilt books. All those little blocks with stars, trees, houses, and other small things? Nearly all were designed by her. She has several books, and if you opt to buy any, consider getting the 300 blocks book seeing as the smaller ones are also in it.

Crafty Nomad - FPP, beginner to advanced, low cost but with free tutorials. I’ve not used her patterns before, but they look to be geared towards all levels. I have a difficult time learning from videos being a more in-person and diagrams with pictures and instructions kind of person.

My Pattern Search - I did a google search using “free quilt patterns -pinterest” (minus the quotation marks) to get a general collection without Pinterest showing up. When you look for patterns and don’t wanna be flooded with Pinterest boards, use -pinterest. You can do the same with -amazon, -walmart, and various other sites you don’t want showing up in search results.

Quilting Daily - This is an excellent website with all sorts of projects from very beginner to advanced! Sign up for the newsletter if you don’t mind getting one daily. They have giveaways and other events you receive notice of in the newsletters.

Fave Quilts - FPP and traditional, all are free, from beginner to advanced. Some of the info they list, like the links, may no longer be valid, so look over the patterns carefully. They link to other websites with the patterns.

Stashify - FPP and traditional, all free, from beginner to advanced. They won’t be adding new things to the site since Covid19, but they do still have patterns listed.

All About Quilts - FPP and traditional, all free, from beginner to advanced. There’s a video on the page showing how to make FPP blocks. There are full quilts listed as well as individual blocks.

All People Quilt - FPP and traditional, nearly all are free and have at one point or another been in various quilt magazines, lots of pictures, download, and print options. I’ve used many of the patterns featured on the website. There are also tips and tricks available on the blog and articles they post.

Fat Quarter Shop - Traditional, focused primarily on using precuts. The patterns range from beginner to advanced, with lots of pictures, download, and print options.

Moda Fabrics and Moda Fabrics Wordpress - Mostly traditional, with pictures, download, and print options to choose from. Beginner to advanced. The second link has virtually no organization, but it’s all free.

Bear Creek Quilting Company - Mostly traditional with a lot of pics. Beginner to advanced.

Quilter’s Cache - Mostly traditional and it’s just quilt blocks. The site is difficult to navigate, so I haven’t done much exploring. Seeing as it’s mostly just quilt blocks, I suggest using Generations (link up above) because they’re also just blocks but far easier to navigate.

My Personal Collection of Free Patterns - This is a Dropbox folder with free patterns I’ve collected. Download whatever files you want. I’ll add more as I find them, but make sure you check out the links available on some of the patterns for more information regarding them.

There are many other designers out there; these are just what I have saved and/or used. Remember to check all the info on the patterns! Some have rules like not selling the finished items/quilts, and others require just mentioning/tagging them when you post the projects online.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or any of these designers and websites. If you have questions regarding a specific pattern, I may be able to help, but if it’s from one of the sites, consider contacting the designer(s) first.

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Please reblog if you have a quilting tumblr blog. Oh, and add three pics of your work. Gotta show it off!

Mine is @creations-by-chaosfay

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When I saw Donna Jordan do Nine Sisters from CozyQuilts, I knew I had to do it. Eventually.

Fast forward two years later and a jelly roll that is taunting me from the shelf, and here I go. It was a very easy pattern, actually. It’s all half-square triangles, and solid squares.

I was so tired of black or white backgrounds, so I set out to JoAnn to get some Navy fabric. I had a vision! But, they were out of Navy. So, I found this royal blue with a bit of a pattern on it. Almost like a grunge or something, but not quite. I bought five yards of it and I’m glad I did! I had just enough. I also chose blue because the fabric - Scarlet’s Garden - can easily read holiday, and it’s not holiday at all. The blue negated that, I believe.

The pattern, because of so much negative space, called for well over three yards of background. There are sixteen squares that are 8.5″ of just background. But there are four sets of two that are side by side, so I just cut those areas as rectangles. Less seams and sewing. 

I did have some stripped jelly roll strips left over so I divided them equally and put them in the binding right in the center of each side where all that negative space is located. It’s a cute stretch of color.

The backing is just black fabric. I also incorporated some pink fabric with a green paisley on it. My friend thought I was nuts, but I knew it’d work. I did have my doubt part of the way into it, but I was too far to stop. This was also one of the first times I used starch. It’s a game changer! Just some Niagara Luxe works, but I used the Original, too. The quilting is a blue thread from Gutermann that matches the blue, and I did a loopy meander. It’s about 68″ square and I think it’s just cute as anything.

I even quilted my name into it. It’s near the top, but it’s upside down in the pic. 

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I had hoped to finish my fifth point last night but I kept falling asleep. Saturday has dawned dreary and grey so it seems like the perfect time to finish that point. Yay one to go. I may have a wee break once the last point is done. My fingers are sore and my thumb on my left hand is doing weird things and I think it may be from alll that stitching, maybe. I am having second thoughts on the diamond design anyway so stay tuned I may need your advice.

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this is proving to be a very pleasing hobby so far

lots of little “task completed!” dopamine hits :D

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The first quilt kit from Quilts For Kids is done!! This is more quilting than I’ve ever added to a quilt before lol

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Another finished donation quilt!! The backing fabric has little flowers on it but idk how well that comes across? Maybe I should start taking closeups of some of these fabrics so y’all can see the patterns lol

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I finished this like a month ago and never posted it but look!! I made a t-shirt quilt!!! It took so long and it's my first quilt!!

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yall i finished another one!! pattern from @shitpostsampler , slightly different shades of green because these are what i had in my stash but i LOVE how it turned out 🖤 all my favorite patterns are shitposts 🖤

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Today’s the first real day of fall weather so of course I’m busting out every cozy layer I own like it’s already midwinter.

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It's finally done!!!

Pattern to follow soon hopefully (boy I really hope KC Green checks his emails)

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First block in the next series of literature based quilt patterns, Dracula! Pattern coming I'm 2023

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Bat quilt block

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Thrawn Amigurumi I made for my husband's birthday