30+ Free Quilting Designs for Machine Quilting

Continuous line quilting patterns are easy ways to practice your free motion quilting skills, making the Wavy Walk pattern one that beginners should all try.

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The great thing about this tutorial is that it teaches you basic free motion skills through a simple swirl, or spiral, design.

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This kind of quilting can really emphasize certain shapes, motifs, or themes in a quilt. Use it to call out interesting patchwork patterns or set off fussy-cut bits of fabric.

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Add an intricate look to any of your latest quilt patterns with a beautiful free motion quilting pattern that makes Interlocking Circles.

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This vertical and horizontal stripe free motion pattern is really exciting for anyone who likes sewing in straight lines. This free project will test the precision of your free motion quilting!

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This design has a truly modern edge that can transform any of your simple or traditional patterns into modern quilt patterns in moments.

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This flower design is reminiscent of a poinsettia. If you want to free motion this pattern onto a Christmas fabric, it would look absolutely fabulous. 

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This large quilt design is great for girly quilts with its whimsical swirling flowers and soft curlicue background design.

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The Leafy Branches Quilting Design will break you out of that stippling rut so you can try some more creative free patterns for machine quilting.

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Complement your tropical quilts with gorgeous quilting stitch designs that look like exotic flowers. This Tropical Orchid Quilting Design is a beautiful accent to a summer quilt or even a whole-cloth quilt.

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This quilting tutorial puts a modern twist on a basic leaf pattern and features leaves with berries. A versatile free motion quilting pattern, this design can be stitched as a fill motif or in a row to create a border.

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Add a little sunshine to your next quilt project with this simple free motion tutorial that's great for machine quilters.

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This quilting video demonstrates how to quilt feather wreaths using a longarm quilting machine. To create these quilting stitch designs, the quilter traces the pattern onto a quilt using a fabric marker and stencil and then stitches over the pattern.

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Next time you see the direction "quilt as desired," why not add some Free Motion Feathers to give all-over designs some added interest?

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This quilting feathers tutorial will guide you through the process of machine embroidery in no time at all. The video contained in this free quilting project is excellent because it explains free motion quilting with necessary detail.

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This free motion quilting pattern takes its inspiration from classic paisleys but adds an echo for easy machine quilting.

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Create some beautiful free motion designs inspired by the evening sky with this Starry Night Free Motion Tutorial. Reminiscent of Van Gogh's Starry Night, this free motion tutorial shows you how to create stitches filled with stars and moons until you have a quilt full of mini constellations!

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You can stitch Big and Little Butterflies using a longarm machine, or you can adapt the sketches provided to free motion quilting.

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It may not be summer quite yet, but that doesn't mean you can't dream of warm days spent at the beach!

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This clever tutorial for Quilting Houses with a Template explains how to use a house block paper piecing pattern to create a template for quilting the same design.

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Almost every winter quilt pattern has a red-green color scheme and traditional figures of importance. This Free Motion Frost Design is artistic, tasteful, and not cliche at all.

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For a fun and fanciful quilting design that will look right at home within the stitches of many quilt patterns, follow this tutorial about Arching Loop de Loops.

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With a circle cut ruler as a stencil, this pattern will be a cinch. Create a ripple-like effect on any of your quilt patterns with beautiful and consistent quilting stitch designs.

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The fun thing about this free motion quilting pattern is that you can make the puzzle design in any way you'd like.

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This swirly free motion pattern is guaranteed to turn stares from everyone. If you're looking for solid free motion quilting tips, then this tutorial is for you.

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If you're making a nautically-themed project, then this Low Tide Free Motion Design is perfect for you. Learn the basics of how to free motion quilt with this simple and wavy design.

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The Ocean Current Quilting Design is a swirly, wavy pattern that fills in backgrounds with style. Create one wandering line of curlicues, and then double back to outline each of them for concentric swirls.

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If you have been searching for a unique, winter-themed quilt idea, then you will adore this Wooly Mitten Free Motion Quilting pattern. This tutorial will show you how to make a free motion quilt pattern of a pair of mittens.

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The basket weave is popular among hand and machine quilters because it is a great, easy way to fill in any background.

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Pumpkins are everywhere in autumn, so it only makes sense that you should learn how to make a quilt with pumpkin patterns. Using a series of backward “c” stitches, these pumpkins couldn’t be simpler to stitch.

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This project will show you how to free motion quilt small swirly shamrocks. To make larger shamrocks, all you have to do is echo quilt around your design.

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This quilting project will show you how to make a quilt with a spinning dreidel pattern. Historically, Jewish people would play the dreidel game to camoflage that they were studying the Torah.

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This is the perfect free quilt pattern for beginners because it’s very forgiving. As long as you stitch a basic triangle shape with a trunk, your holiday quilt pattern is sure to be recognized as a Christmas tree.

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If you consider yourself a quilting pro, then this free motion quilting pattern will be very easy for you. The mistletoe leaf motif is very similar to a quilted feather pattern. 

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This quilting tutorial will guide through how to stitch a row of presents. Presents make great beginner quilting patterns because of their basic square shapes.

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Put that pedal to the metal and stitch these beautiful winter petals. This intricate design would also make a festive embellishment to holiday cloth napkins. 

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