Have you been searching for the perfect machine quilting designs to stitch on your next quilt? You’ve come to the right place! The Free Motion Quilting Project began in August 2009 and the original goal was to create 365 new free motion machine quilting designs.
Machine quilting has evolved over the years and I’ve tried out other forms of quilting as well. Click the links below to find the style of designs you’re most wanting to learn how to machine quilt:
What are Free Motion Quilting Designs?
These free motion machine quilting designs are patterns that can be quilted without marking your fabric. We machine quilt these designs by memorizing a simple set of rules, much like learning how to write your name in cursive. Each quilting design has a slightly different set of rules which changes how the quilted texture looks and feels on your quilt.
ALL of the free motion quilting patterns posted to the Free Motion Quilting Project can be quilted on any machine. I’ve organized this gallery so you can easily find home machine quilting designs and longarm quilting patterns.
However, all of the designs here will work on any style of quilting machine. You can stitch with your machine set in a table – pushing the quilt over the machine bed. You can also quilt these designs on a quilting frame where the machine rolls on wheels.
If you’re wanting to quilt your own quilts, make sure to check out all the different quilting machine options available to you today! Click the links below to shop for sewing tables and quilting tools that make machine quilting much easier on your home machine:
12 Easy Free Motion Machine Quilting Patterns
Quilting these designs can help you build amazing new skills for machine quilting and quilting your own quilts. If you can’t free motion quilt confidently yet, make sure to check out our beginner Quilt Along projects which will help you build new skills one quilt block at a time.
Looking for even more machine quilting designs to quilt? Click Here to find the entire Free Motion Quilting Design Gallery.
Try a New Machine Quilting Style
We have so many ways to quilt our quilts now! Machine quilting is constantly growing and changing the way we can finish our quilts. Walking Foot Quilting is the easiest machine quilting style for beginners. The main downside is quilting with a walking foot, dual feed, or even feed foot can be slow and complex designs very hard to stitch.
Ruler Quilting is a new style of free motion quilting that uses rulers to help guide your quilting design. This style came from longarm machines on quilting frames, but can also work great on your home machine too!
Did you know you can put your home sewing machine on a quilting frame? This makes machine quilting feel so much easier because the machine is on wheels. The quilting frame holds your quilt flat and keeps the layers even. You can even baste the layers of your quilt together on certain quilting frames.
Check out these tutorials to learn more about each of these machine quilting styles:
Longarm Quilting Patterns
Longarm machines are specially designed for machine quilting. Unlike home sewing machines, longarm machines do not have feed dogs. You cannot use a long arm machine to sew pants or piece a quilt top. These machines are specifically created to quilt free motion machine quilting designs.
I first tried longarm quilting with a sit down longarm machine, but quickly found the best way to set up the longarm machine is on a quilting frame. This gives you the very best quilting experience and makes machine quilting much, much easier.
With the longarm on wheels, you can move the machine with your fingertips. Meandering quilting designs like Stippling are effortless when you can easily move the machine in all directions. Here’s a few long arm quilting patterns I’ve shared that are easy for anyone to quilt on a frame:
More longarm quilting patterns are coming soon! As I update older free motion quilting tutorials, I’ll be sharing new videos quilting designs on my Qnique longarm machines and updating this gallery.