If you’re a regular Stitch This! reader, you know that we love to share techniques, tips, and inspiration to help make your quilting experience successful and fun. One of our favorite ways to do that is to pull together a bunch of our free quilt tutorials and give you a heap of useful quilty information all at once.
Our talented authors love to share, too, and not only in their books. Many also generously share their expertise on their blogs through free quilting tutorials. But it can be hard to find those tutorials when they’re spread all over the Internet. Here’s a short list of great lessons from the experts, from ensuring an accurate seam allowance to adding a label. Click through to see each designer’s post, then follow them via email, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.
Test Your ¼" Seam Allowance
Author: Pat Sloan (Pat Sloan’s Teach Me to Appliqué—available now!)
Blog: PatSloan.com
Flying Geese the No-Waste Way
Author: Melissa Corry (Irish Chain Quilts—coming May 2015)
Blog: Happy Quilting Melissa
Choosing Batting for a Quilt
Author: Amy Smart (Fabulously Fast Quilts)
Blog: Diary of a Quilter
How to Make Bias Binding
Author: Amber Johnson (Vintage Vibe)
Blog: A Little Bit Biased
How to Bind Curves
Author: Julie Herman (Skip the Borders)
Blog: Jaybird Quilts
Fusible Quilt Labels Made Easy
Author: Krista Hennebury (Make It, Take It)
Blog: Poppy Print Creates
For more quiltmaking how-tos, visit our How to Quilt page.
What techniques would you like to see in an online tutorial? Tell us in the comments and we may feature your tutorial idea in a future post.
I purchased a longarm machine. I would love to see some videos on how to get started, loading , problems when quilting. Very basic instructions on machines.
—Patsy on March 26, 2015Thanks
Patsy
Various quilt-as-you-go methods.
—Bro AJK on March 27, 2015I have the Baby Lock Tiara. Neither the company or the dealer offered any training. They said just practice and read the manual. I’m a visual learner. So any videos showing mid-arms would be great.
—Linda on March 27, 2015Anything on learning to machine quilt would be great! Books and magazines show works in progress, but cannot show speed, following designs, or how to hide those pesky stutter steps.
—Linda Towers on March 29, 2015