Welcome to our Quilting Resources page, a treasure trove designed to support quilters of all levels in their creative journey. Whether you’re an experienced quilter seeking new techniques or a beginner looking to learn the ropes, you’ve come to the right place.
Quilting Classes:
Sylvia Q. Davis, Instructor
In-person and virtual classes are available. For more information click here.
Quilting Tutorials:
Leah Day Quilting – YouTube
Missouri Star Quilt Company – YouTube
Quilting is My Therapy/Angela Walters – YouTube
The Crafty Gemini – YouTube
QuiltTV – YouTube
Quilting Books:
Bisa Butler – Portraits
Edited by Erica Warren, with contributions by Bisa Butler, Jordan Carter, Isabella Ko, Erica Warren, and Michele Wije.
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Authors: Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard, Ph.D.
The Quilts of Gee’s Bend –Author: Susan Goldman Rubin
Underground Railroad Sampler/Quilt in a Day – Authors: Eleanor Burns & Sue Bouchard
Quilting Patterns and Designs:
The Quilter’s Cache – FREE Patterns and Blocks
Fat Quarter Shop – FREE Patterns
All People Quilt – FREE Patterns
Fabric and Supply Shops:
Kersey Girl Creations/Gay K. Morris
Retailer of AccuQuilt dies and fabric cutters- GO!, GO Baby!, GO Big!
PH: (323) 792-4243 – Email
3430 Ball Road, Anaheim, CA 92804
PH: (714) 995-3178
Quilt’in With Soul Fabrics – African/Ethnic Fabrics
Online store: facebook.com/quiltinwithsoulfabrics
San Diego, CA – PH: (619) 618-8618 – Email
Online Store – African Fabric and Precuts
FaceBook: Sew Creative Lounge
2306 Corinth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90064
PH: (310) 450-4300
Quilting Software and Apps:
Quilt Design Software: Design quilts, draw blocks, import fabrics
Pro-Stitcher (HandiQuilter)
A computerized longarm quilting software system for digital quilting designs.
Pro-Stitcher Designer (HandiQuilter)
A full-featured design software for creating paper or digitized quilting motifs and patterns.
QuiltMotion QCT6 (The Grace Company)
A computer-automated longarm quilting system.
Robotic quilting system for longarm quilting machines.
Quilting Blogs:
Explorations in African American Quilting
Contemporary textile artist, modern quilts
Graphic and contemporary quilt designs and patterns
Scrap quilts
Folk Artist/Coatmaker
Quilting Events and Shows:
Road to California Quilter’s Conference & Showcase
QuiltCon presented by the Modern Quilt Guild
International Quilt Festival – Houston Texas
American Quilter’s Society (AQS) Quilt Week
Social Media Groups:
FACEBOOK:
African American Quilters Group, Let’s Grow to 1,000,000
Black Girls Quilt & Create
Black Girls Quilt Professionally
Black Women who QUILT
FREE PATTERN QUILTING
My Hobby is Quilt
Quilt Along with Pat Sloan
Quilting Instructions
Quiltville’s Open Studio (Official)/Bonnie K. Hunter
Quilting Free Patterns
TIKTOK:
Camille | camelscrafts
Living Water Quilter
Katsquiltsmke
SewExcited
Local Quilting Guilds and Associations:
Los Angeles Modern Quilt Guild (LAMQG)
Santa Monica Quilt Guild (SMQG)
Southern California Council of Quilt Guilds (SCCQG)
Westside Quilters of Los Angeles
Museums:
CALIFORNIA
California African American Museum (CAAM)*
600 State Drive – Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA 90037
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles 520 S. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
Skirball Cultural Center 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
Visions Museum of Textile Art 2825 Dewey Road. Ste. 100, San Diego, CA 92106
ACROSS THE USA
Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective
Retreats
Levy County Quilt Museum 11050 NW 10th Avenue, Chiefland, Florida 32626
National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) 1400 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20560
National Quilt Museum 215 Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
Texas Quilt Museum 140 W. Colorado Street, La Grange, TX 78945
The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum 200 Violet Street, Ste, 140, Golden, Colorado 80401