Love quilting but need some new ideas? Check out these fabulously free quilt patterns we found. 35 cool ideas to try out for your next quilting project. From simpler ideas for beginners to some awesome patterns for the experienced quilter, these great projects will definitely be ones you will want to add to your “make next” list. Some of them use quilting scraps, too. From pretty home decor ideas to baby quilts to the best ideas to give as gifts, we know you are going to love looking at these as much as we do.
35 Easy Quilt Ideas with Patterns
1. Peaches & Cream Quilt
I just love this peaches and cream quilt and know you will, too! Easy enough to make in a weekend, and we know not all quilting projects are!
2. Candy Bloom Quilt
This quilt my granddaughter but did not have all the time in the world to make it. The pattern is easy enough for those of us who don’t quite yet consider ourselves quilting experts. It only took me a few days to make this super cute DIY quilting idea.
3. Arrows Aweigh Boy Quilt
How cute is this easy quilt idea? I am making this one for my guest room. How about you?
4. Rainbow Mini Quilt
This small quilt is definitely doable in a weekend. Super easy, but as cute as can be. If you are looking for an easy quilting idea, start here with this colorful mini quilt tutorial.
5. Shoo-Fly Quilt
In this next step-by-step tutorial from Simple Simon and Company you will learn to create your own shoo-fly quilt! Check out Simple Simon and Company now to get a full tutorial on how to make simple quilt blocks, making a full quilt, how to create patterns, and you can also get a few tips for quilting, how to cut fabric, pressing and a lot of things about quilting. Go check it out!
6. One Hour Triangle Quilt
This next quilt making tutorial that we have only takes about an hour or so to make. Making quilts isn’t always easy especially when it’s a large one you are making. So this tutorial that we have from See Kate Sew will help you finish making aa quilt in just about an hour! Check it out now so you can create your customized triangle quilt as quick and easy as ever!
7. Large Hexagon Quilt
Create your own Large Hexagon Quilt by checking this step-by-step tutorial from Polka Dot Chair! All you need is a lot of fabric of course! A 10” stacker of fabric or various fabric prints, fabric for backing, fabric for batting and some fabric for binding! All now, all you need to do is check out the tutorial to know what to do with those fabrics!
8. Twin Size Triangle Pop Quilt
This next quilt making tutorial from Quilty Love will have you amazed on how easy it is to make. Quilty Love is going to teach you how to make triangle patterns and how to match it to make the colors pop. This Twin Size Triangle Pop Quilt would definitely work on your next movie night with your sweetheart or your family.
9. Rustic Rag Quilt
In this step-by-step tutorial you will learn to create a 34 x 44 inches’ quilt, perfect to use as a tummy time quilt for a baby or a greater throw quilt for a young child. Check out the full step-by-step tutorial from Modernly Morgan! All you need is 1.75 yards of muslin for backing, 1.75 yards of fabric for front, warm and natural cotton batting, walking foot, spring loaded scissors, neutral thread, rotary cutter, mat, cutting ruler and some pins!
10. Large Chrysalis Lattice Quilt
Everyone loves cats, cats are one of the sweetest most peaceful animals I have known. And on this next quilt tutorial from DIY Joy will teach you how to make a quilt with cat patterns! Check out the video tutorial no to create your own Cat Quilt and enjoy it with your cats or create one for your cats, whichever way you want to use it!
11. DIY Cat Quilt
This is one of the cutest quilts I’ve seen in a long time! I fell in love with it and had to make one right away. I’ve had more compliments on this quilt. Everybody that sees it wants one. I love the bright colors I used in this quilt…I usually love anything that is bright and cheerful! The fact that it has cats on it will brighten anybody’s days.
12. Over-The-Weekend Flannel Quilt
Flannel today, a finished quilt before the weekend’s over: that’s the pitch. It’s one solid square next to a four patch, then another solid, then another four patch, all the way across, in mustard, rust, brown, navy, gray and cream plaids and checks, a quarter inch seam throughout and short red yarn ties at the corners instead of rows of stitching (tying goes a lot faster, which is the whole point). Simple Simon and Company keeps the tutorial right on the page, with a $3.95 downloadable version if you’d rather print it, and more of their ideas are a click away.
13. Happy Cactus Quilt
Who knew a cactus could look this pleased with itself? Five mint green hexagons printed with tiny white flowers and stars stack into the plant, a stitched smiley face sits on the center one, a coral hexagon blooms on top and a coral trapezoid pot holds the whole thing up, all set out for English paper piecing before a single seam goes in. Wild Olive has the how-to, and the rest of her site is that same kind of cheerful.
14. Diagonal Strip Quilt
Fair warning: this isn’t one for your very first quilt. Those diagonal stripes come from the tube method, six 2.5 inch strips (jelly roll strips work) sewn into two sets of three with the seams pressed open, then the sets layered right sides together, and one tube gives you six blocks, but every edge is bias and bias stretches if you so much as look at it wrong. Flip the stripe direction block to block and the turquoise, hot pink, yellow, coral and mint read as chevrons. Read the whole thing at Cluck Cluck Sew before you cut a single strip (the maker says so, and I agree), and browse her other quilts while you’re at it.
15. Square Dancing Lap Quilt
This one’s for the deep jewel tone crowd. Blocks of concentric squares in batiks that look hand dyed, deep blue, teal, purple, magenta, orange, gold and crimson, each block its own color family, wrapped in a wide navy batik border and draped over a dining chair like it owns the place. McCall’s Quilting published it, and there’s a lot more where it came from.
16. Ombre Herringbone Quilt
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17. Giant Hexie Flower Lap Quilt
Seven blocks. That’s the whole quilt: six big hexagons around a yellow center, in red hearts, gray graph check, cream strawberries, a brown floral and red with dark bugs, English paper pieced from an 8 inch template you print at full scale. It finishes at about 41.5 by 41.5 inches with a scalloped edge instead of a straight one, and you can hand or machine quilt it with no squaring up and no fuss. The author’s nickname for it around her apartment is unprintable (affectionately), which tells you everything, and Red-Handled Scissors covers the template and the whole walkthrough, plus more of her projects.
19. Minky Rag Quilt
Behind this one is a baby quilt from Grandma, loved until it was more holes than batting, and a daughter who asked for one of her own. So her mom made a rag quilt in minky: squares on point in hot pink peonies, gray damask, orange dots and lime swirls, frayed gray seams between them, a solid gray minky back with raised dots and an X stitched through every square. The Crafty Blog Stalker calls it perfect for beginners, and she’s got the steps and plenty more besides.
20. Pinwheel Quilt
Propellers, if you squint. Its maker picked pinwheels for her newest nephew Spencer because his nursery has a transportation theme and pinwheels remind her of plane propellers, and in charcoal, white and a gray with white dots print they spin right across the quilt, pegged to a tree trunk with clothespins for the photo. She also admits to being a master procrastinator who finishes nearly every quilt the night before it’s due, which I find deeply reassuring. Both the propeller story and the directions are at Newlywoodwards, along with more of her quilts.
21. U.S. Map Quilt
Every state gets its own print. The whole map is appliqued state by state onto cream in reds, aquas, pinks, tans, navies and greens, bound in aqua and posed on a white bench by a red barn with an aqua picnic basket, and that is a lot of styling for a quilt that didn’t need any help. It’s credited to fabric.com, and I’ll be honest, I’d treat it as inspiration for a map of your own.
22. 3D Hexagon Quilt Block
Yes, it’s flat. The cube is a trick of value (medium next to dark, medium next to light, dark next to light) and once you see it you can’t unsee it: a light blue dot, a green plaid and a teal chevron make one block, and seven of them tessellate into a 3D honeycomb. It’s a jelly roll project, three pairs of 2.5 inch strips for seven blocks, and a 60 degree ruler helps but the page shows you how to cut the triangles without one. Teresa Down Under‘s video runs two minutes, which is less time than it takes to pick the fabric, so you’ll have time left over for the rest of her ideas.
23. Pink Classic Quilt
Here’s the part nobody loves: drawing a pencil line corner to corner on the back of 32 white squares (the maker says she hates it too, so you’re in good company). After that it’s classic hourglass blocks in pink gingham, pink dots, a mustard geometric, a taupe floral and a brown circle print, 32 print squares and 32 white at 6 by 6 inches, which is about a yard of white cut into five 6 inch strips, 8 or so prints with 4 squares from each, blocks at 5 inches unfinished and a quilt at 32 by 41 inches. It was made for her baby after staring at fabrics for far too long, which is the most relatable sentence in this whole roundup. Cluck Cluck Sew lays out the cutting and the rest, and her other quilts are worth staying for.
25. Fast Four-Patch Quilt
If you’ve got one fabric you can’t bear to cut up small, this is what to do with it. Big mint green feature-print squares alternate with four patches of navy, red, mint and cream, so the print you love stays big and the little pieces get to play around it, finishing at 40 by 56 inches. The author calls it one of her most popular of all time and says it’s quick and friendly to first-timers, and after nine years and a fresh update, I’m not going to argue. Everything, including a Beginning Quilting series if you’re starting from zero, is waiting at Diary of a Quilter.
26. Baby Quilt
A frame inside a frame inside a frame, then tipped on its corner. The center is a white print with blue, brown and olive dots, wrapped in olive green, then brown, then more of the dots, with a striped stretch along the bottom edge and a wide solid brown border and binding to finish. Brown and olive on a handmade baby quilt sounds like a gamble, and it pays off; this is the one that still looks good when the baby is twelve. So Sew Easy is where the directions are, and she has more quilts to show you.
27. Easy Half-Square Blocks Quilt
Lime green elephant in the lower left corner, and it steals the whole show. The rest is rectangular blocks in navy, turquoise, lime, white and a blue dot cuddle fabric, laid in a brick-style offset so nothing has to line up perfectly (a gift to anyone whose points never meet), bound in navy and photographed on a garden bench. Pre-cuts and beginners are who Pieces by Polly had in mind, and she’ll give you the directions and then some.
28. Easy Puff Quilt
Puffy. Every square is its own stuffed little pillow, pink florals, yellow florals, blue florals and cream with butterflies, set on point, and the thing is so thick it stands up on its own on the patio like it has somewhere to be. This is the quilt kids climb into and refuse to leave. How the puffs get made is all explained at Buzzing and Bumbling, and don’t leave without looking at what else she’s stitched.
29. Quilt As You Go
Primary colors get a bad rap for looking like a kindergarten, and this quilt disagrees. Yellow, blue, red and green each get a horizontal row on white, with flying geese pointing out to either side of a center rectangle in a textured print, and the binding is yellow. The name is the method, and The Seasoned Homemaker teaches it far better than I can in a sentence, with more to make once you’ve got the hang of it.
30. Penny Patch Quilt
One of the cream prints is covered in handwriting, and I’d buy it by the bolt. Little nine-patch style blocks of tiny squares in aqua, mustard, coral and cream, that script print included, sit inside bigger white and cream squares, and a loose meandering line of stitching wanders over the top. It’s small pieces and big pieces sharing the same patchwork, a nice way to make a few favorite leftovers go a long way. Stitched in Color walks you through it, and everything else she’s stitched in color is worth your time.
31. Citrus & Mint Baby Quilt
Snip the corners off a square and you get a snowball block, which is the most generous name anyone ever gave an octagon. In orange, aqua, yellow and lime prints on white, the colored octagons and the pale ones take turns across the whole top, and a bright yellow binding finishes it. This one traces back to Craft Buds, and these days they keep a whole roundup of free quilt patterns, a fine way to lose an afternoon.
32. Radio Way Quilt
Wide white sashing is doing a lot of work here, and I mean that as a compliment. Each framed block holds stacked strips in yellow, charcoal, gray and white, sunflowers, dots, circles and a gray woodgrain, and all that white around them is what keeps the gray from going gloomy. Photographed on sand with dry brush behind it, so either a beach or a very ambitious backyard. Your next stop is Jaybird Quilts, and I’d flip through the rest of their work too.
33. Pretty In Pink Quilt
Count the pinks and get back to me. Rows of brick-shaped rectangles run across in every pink there is, broken up with chocolate brown dots, gray stripes and cream prints of little birds, cherries and blossoms, and it’s quilted in straight lines right along the rows so the bricks stay bricks. Shot from above on a dark wood deck, it’s the quilt I’d want on the bed of any girl who has opinions about pink. It was Red Pepper Quilts who posted it, and I promise it’s not the only one there worth wanting.
34. Chevron Quilt
Nothing here is sewn together yet. It already looks finished, though: rectangles in white, lime green with tiny white sprigs, gray chevron and a strong teal step and interlock across the table, unquilted and unbound, a nice reminder that the arranging is the fun part. Dream Patch is the maker here; look her up for how it turned out and whatever else she’s got going.
35. Moda Hunky Dory Charm Pack Quilt
Instead of sitting in a grid, the color drifts across the white, and that’s the disappearing nine patch doing its thing. It’s a charm pack quilt in Moda’s Hunky Dory range, olive damask, pink florals, aqua, coral, mustard and gray, still a bare top on the clothesline with blue pegs and no binding yet, and somehow that makes it look even fresher. Teresa Down Under handles the disappearing part, and I’d keep scrolling after that, because she’s got more than one trick.
