Following on from my post Easy Quilts For Beginners, I’ve put together some free quilt patterns for beginners.
Once you’ve mastered piecing basic strips or squares then you’ll be looking for something a bit more challenging, These are still easy quilts, just a step up if you’re fairly new to quilting.
I believe most of us crafters can’t resist a good book, they are a great source of new ideas and I just love adding how to quilt books to my collection!
Things have come a long way since the book in the image was published in 1921. Thousands have been published since then and I’ve put together a list of my top 5 favorite quilting books.
There are thousands of quilting patterns available on the Internet, but it’s not so easy to find free quilt patterns to print.
I decided to have an in-depth look over at freequilting.com, part of a group of websites that offer free patterns for most crafts.
When first landing on the start page you are faced with a “pattern search” in the middle and a “join” form to the right. If you do a search and try to download the pattern you’ll be prompted to join. The navigation is well laid out with the patterns in sections: