Best list · 17 sites · updated Oct 2026
Fabric manufacturers publish free patterns to show off their collections, and quilt shops and designers add tutorials. Look for patterns written for precuts if you already have a bundle.
Huge online quilt shop with free video tutorials
Missouri Star Quilt Company is one of the largest online quilt shops, known for its free video tutorials showing quick quilts made with precut fabric. It sells fabric, precuts, notions and patterns.
New York yarn and fabric shop with hundreds of free patterns
Purl Soho is a New York craft shop selling yarn, fabric and supplies. Its website publishes hundreds of free knitting, crochet, sewing and quilting patterns with careful photography and instructions.
Quilting cotton and free quilt patterns
Andover Fabrics produces quilting cotton collections, including the Makower UK lines, with free quilt patterns.
Premium cotton prints, knits and rayon
Art Gallery Fabrics makes premium printed cottons with a soft hand, plus knits, rayon and linen blends, and free patterns.
Quilting cottons, batiks and free patterns
Benartex produces quilting cottons and seasonal collections, with free patterns.
Simple, modern quilt patterns and free tutorials
Cluck Cluck Sew publishes simple, modern quilt patterns, with free tutorials that are good for first quilts.
Designer quilting fabrics, including Tula Pink
FreeSpirit Fabrics produces designer quilting fabric collections from designers such as Tula Pink and Kaffe Fassett.
Craft magazine site with free patterns and how-tos
Gathered is the website of a group of UK craft magazines, with free knitting, crochet, sewing, quilting and cross-stitch patterns and beginner guides.
Batiks and quilting fabric
Hoffman California Fabrics is known for batiks and quilting fabrics, including its Bali Batiks line.
Reproduction and traditional quilting fabrics
Marcus Fabrics is known for reproduction and traditional quilting fabrics and flannels.
Free quilt patterns written for precut fabrics
Moda Bake Shop publishes free quilt patterns, called recipes, written around Moda precuts such as jelly rolls, layer cakes and charm packs. It is a good place to find a pattern for a precut bundle you already own.
Canadian quilting fabrics and free patterns
Northcott is a Canadian fabric company with quilting collections, panels and free patterns.
Quilting fabric and free patterns
P&B Textiles produces quilting cotton collections with free quilt patterns.
Quilting cotton, licensed prints and free patterns
Riley Blake Designs produces quilting cotton collections, licensed character prints and Confetti Cottons solids, with free patterns.
Kona solids and a wide range of quilting and apparel fabric
Robert Kaufman Fabrics is known for Kona Cotton solids, a staple of modern quilting, and a broad range of prints, linens and apparel fabrics. It also offers quilting calculator tools and free patterns.
Norwegian fabric collections, dolls and patterns
Tilda is a Norwegian brand by Tone Finnanger, known for soft-coloured fabric collections, doll patterns and quilt patterns.
Quilting cotton including reproduction prints
Windham Fabrics produces quilting cotton collections, including reproduction and historical prints.
17 sites: Missouri Star Quilt Co. tutorials, Purl Soho, Andover Fabrics, Art Gallery Fabrics, Benartex, Cluck Cluck Sew, FreeSpirit Fabrics, Gathered and more.
Missouri Star Quilt Co. tutorials, Purl Soho, Andover Fabrics, Art Gallery Fabrics, Benartex, Cluck Cluck Sew, FreeSpirit Fabrics, Gathered are free or offer free patterns.