Free Quilt Patterns

I often find patterns for quilting projects online at quilter's web sites and blogs, but only recently have I started looking at fabric sites. I was kind of blown away by how many free patterns are out there to be downloaded and printed out for free from these sites.

Art Gallery Fabrics has a very nice collection of free patterns, including this one for a Sunshine Kisses quilt by Katie Skoog.

I've always wanted to make one of these diagonal rectangle quilts, the Cobblestone pattern for which I found over at Robert Kaufman Fabrics among the almost two thousand pages of free patterns.

I fell in love at first sight with this Office Cats pattern by Wendy Sheppard over at Windham Fabrics free quilt pattern collection, which also offers many filters to help refine the results for what you're searching for.

When companies are selling lines of fabric prints they often offer free patterns as an enticement for quilters to buy the fabric. So if you're looking for a pattern that uses a specific fabric brand or designer, such as Moda or Tula Pink, do a search of that name + free quilting pattern. You'll probably find a lot of free stuff on other sites.

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