Free Easy Quilt Patterns

If you are looking for some free beginner quilt patterns, head on over to About.com. They have a list of easy quilt patterns perfect for the beginner, including some variations that I have not seen before. Here are my favorites from the article and why

Black & White and Red All Over

Practice your strip piecing with this incredibly easy quilt pattern. Plus, don’t let the color choice stop you. You can also substitute yellow for black. Or choose to create a white and blue quilt. If you have a college football junkie in your household, think of how they would enjoy this quilt in their team’s colors. Pick up some of the team’s licensed fabric for one of the scrappy fabric choices and you have a winner.

Quick and Easy Rag Quilt

Rag quilts are so much fun and cozy! Using flannel fabric, this is a beginner quilt pattern you can easily complete in a day. Plus, rag quilts are excellent for testing teenagers. I figure if they can hang on to a rag quilt, they may be ready for an upgrade.

Mock Basket Weave

Oh, now you have to admit that this idea is totally wonderful. You pick out striped fabrics and let them do all the work. You simply rotate the pieces so that it looks like you pieced the blocks when you did not. It sounds strange, but looks wonderful.

Friendship Star

This block is usually the beginning quilter’s first star block. As it should be. It will help you get over your fear of triangles if you have any. Plus, you can always substitute this star for a more complicated star in a quilt pattern.

There are some other fun easy quilt patterns over there that I am not going to tell you about because you just need to go over there and check them out. Lots of pictures and full instructions. Plus, about.com has a “Print” button on the easy quilt patterns’ pages so you don’t have to fix anything. Just click.

So what are you waiting for? Go over there now. And while you are there, check out the forums. Very helpful and knowledgeable folks. Here’s the link:

http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltpatternsprojects/tp/easy_quilts.htm

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