16 Easy-to-Use Quilt Patterns Perfect for Beginners: All Free - Sew Fabricated (2024)

Quilt making is a wonderfully relaxing and rewarding hobby. All you need to get started is a sewing machine with a 1/4″ stitching foot to help you get an accurate seam allowance, cutting tools to help you cut precisely (like a utility knife rotary and mat) and a well-written quilt pattern. . These quilt patterns are a great starting point for beginners. Plus, all of these patterns are free.

When I was a beginner at quilting, my first project was a queen-sized quilt for my 8-year-old daughter. Boy, was I ambitious! But after that, I was hooked and have been making quilts of all sizes ever since. If a huge quilt seems too heavy for you, try one of the baby quilt designs.

If you're getting ready to sew your first quilt or are looking for a quick and easy quilt pattern that an experienced quilter could sew in a day (yes, it's possible!), let me share my favorite easy patterns to make beautiful quilts. You. Most importantly, have fun and watch your quilting skills grow!

The Easiest Baby Quilt Ever

If you don't mind cheating a little, this baby quilt pattern really is the simplest. For what? Because it is sewn from pre-made patchwork fabric. Simply take the layers together, add quilting in a straight line, cut and bind!

The Easiest 10-Yard Quilt Ever

The Easiest Three Yard Quilt Ever is a great pattern for learning how to quilt. It's not huge, so you can finish quickly. You will only need 3 yards of fabric. The model shares tips for choosing fabric, cutting and quilting.

Simple Patchwork Quilt

Sew a patchwork quilt with simple 2 1/2-inch squares of fabric. This beginner quilt tutorial is perfect for using up your scraps. Every time I sew a quilt entirely from scraps, it’s like free fabric!

Baby quilt with bow tie

I love fat quarter quilts! A fat quarter is an 18″ x 22″ piece of fabric. Fat Quarters often come in coordinating bundles, so they're a great beginner's project because you don't have to worry if your fabrics will match well together.

The Bow Tie Baby Quilt uses just four fat quarters and 1 1/4 yards of background fabric. The bow tie quilt block is a great block to learn first. Arrange your easy quilt blocks in this simple pattern and get ready to give a new baby some love!

Pinwheel Daydreams Baby Quilt

Learn how to sew the classic pinwheel block pattern and sew it into the beautiful Pinwheel Daydreams Baby Quilt. Everyone loves this simple design. Large, easy-to-use quilt blocks make this a quick, perfect sewing pattern for beginners.

Rainbow Color by Number Quilt

This easy quilt is sewn together in the bargello style, which means you will cut strips and sew them together. Next, you will cut the strips and arrange them in a specific pattern. The free Color By Number quilt pattern includes a coloring sheet to help you plan your quilt.

Simplest Plus Quilt Pattern

Of all the quilt block designs, I think the plus block (more traditionally known as the cross block) is the most durable. This is one of the oldest quilt block designs in existence, and yet it is also popular in modern quilts. This particular quilt has 6+ inch pieces or cross stitched pieces together with background fabrics, so there are two more units in each 12 inch quilt block.

The simplest quilt pattern can be sewn with lots of scraps or just two different fabrics.

Fat Quarter Novelty Quilt

Fat Quarter Fancy is one of my most popular quilt patterns. Sew this 52-inch square quilt using nine fat quarters plus a little over a yard of background fabric.

Big Star Quilt

Learn how to sew the Big Star Quilt using half square triangles! This quick and easy (and free) quilt pattern uses my shortcut method to sew two half-square triangles (HST) simultaneously. It’s also friendly to large neighborhoods.

Fat Quarter Swirl Quilt Pattern

Sew a quick, easy (and fat quarter-friendly) quilt with my free Fat Quarter Whirlwind Quilt Pattern. This simple patchwork quilt is perfect for beginners or anyone who needs to sew a quilt quickly because the blocks are simple and repetitive. The pattern includes a free PDF template for the tourbillon blades.

Quarter Log Cabin, Three Yard Quilt

This captivating quilt pattern is perfect to keep for yourself or share with a friend. The Quarter Log Cabins Quilt only requires three yards of fabric; choosing fabrics is easy, and sewing them together to make a 50″ x 60″ quilt is easy too!

Half-square triangle baby quilt

The Half Square Triangle Baby Quilt pattern is just a smaller version of the Big Star Quilt above. This simple quilt pattern will introduce you to the world of quilting with a sure-to-be successful first quilt!

The Easiest Queen Size Quilt for a Beginner

This is the pattern for you if you are an ambitious beginner and want to start with a queen-size quilt. The Fancy Star Fat Quarter Quilt features large blocks that are easy to piece together and can be sewn with scraps instead of fat quarters if desired.

Easy quilt to make as you go for beginners

This Quilt-as-You-Go strip quilt is ideal for sewing with a small sewing machine because you use 2 1/2″ fabric strips and batting strips instead of one large piece of batting for the whole quilting. I recommend using a walking foot for easier layering.

Kisses Jelly Roll Quilt Pattern

A jelly roll is a bundle of fabric made up of 42 strips measuring 42″ wide and approximately 2 1/2″ wide. If you don't have a package of jelly rolls available, you can cut your own 2 1/2″ strips using a ruler and rotary cutter. Invest in a quality cutting mat and you'll you won't regret it!

Quilting beginners love my free Kisses quilt pattern. The entire quilt is sewn from 2 1/2 inch jelly roll strips.

Warm and comfortable rag duvet

Another easy quilting project that beginners love is rag quilts! With a rag quilt, you don't need to have perfect seam allowances or cut small pieces. I recommend getting spring-loaded rag quilt scissors so your hands don't cramp.

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