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It’s time to take a spin with your next quilt pattern! Our newest addition to the Shortcut Quilt Series, Layer Cake Carousel, is here! You can start sewing Shortcut Quilts right away thanks to their easy designs using precuts! Our Shortcut Quilt patterns are always free and they come with a Fat Quarter Shop YouTube video tutorial.

The Layer Cake Carousel Quilt Pattern

DOWNLOAD THE FREE LAYER CAKE CAROUSEL QUILT PATTERN

Layer Cake Carousel is a beginner-friendly quilt designed in Lap size that’s perfect for a baby quilt (plus, we inclu ...

Take a swig of whatever fuels your day! Enjoy your favorite warm or cold beverage in one of these quilty and oh-sew eye-catching Insulated Travel Mugs, exclusively available from Fat Quarter Shop and made by Swig. Keep your drinks at the perfect temperature for hours, and never worry about condensation at your sewing table again! Then, when you head out on your adventures, these handled Travel Mugs will fit easily in most standard cup holders.

Pink Limited Edition Fat Quarter Shop 40oz Quilty Mug
Fat Quarter Shop Exclusive by Swig Life

This limited-edition mug will fit in seamlessly with your ...

Sewing baby quilts is the coziest way to shower a little one and their family with love! Whether you’re a novice who loves our easy baby quilt patterns or an experienced quilter looking for something more challenging, the Little P patterns from It’s Sew Emma have something that both you and your little giftee will treasure! Plus, all Little P patterns only require a handful of Fat Quarters to make getting started super easy.

On The Boardwalk – Little P Pattern

On the Boardwalk by It’s Sew Emma is a quick and easy Fat Quarter-friendly pattern. It ...

With hundreds of floss colors in stock every day, Fat Quarter Shop is the place to go for DMC Floss! We always have a cross stitch project (or two, or three) on our needles, and DMC Floss finds its way into our project bags all the time. Whether you’re a cross-stitcher like us, an embroidery stitcher, or any other strand of thread-head, you can find the DMC Floss you need at the right price every time when you shop with us!

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What better way to celebrate Worldwide Quilting Day than to kick off the Prairie Home Sampler Sew Along from Lori Holt’s Prairie Home Quilt Book?! This quilt has everything a pioneering quilter could wish to sew, from prairie blooms to bonnets and baskets. Keep reading for all the details needed to participate in the quilty fun!

About The Quilt

A sampler quilt is a great way to celebrate a new quilting book because you get a little taste of everything the book has to offer in one scrumptious quilt! The finished Prairie Home Sampler quilt measures 73.5″ x ...

Every month, we have a new batch of specials that we pick out just for you! If you haven’t had a chance to explore those deals on our site yet this month, we have all the info for you here. Just make sure you take advantage before Monday, March 31st, at midnight CST, when they roll over to a new round of deals!

Bee Vintage by Lori Holt for Riley Blake Designs

Pulling inspiration from vintage quilting, designer Lori Holt has done it again with this collection. Bee Vintage features blossoming florals and classic geometric patterns decorated in thriving ...

We’re ready for a spring revival with the March Sew Sampler box! Peek inside for a clue of the oh-sew-delightful contents.

Don’t miss out on this box! If you aren’t yet subscribed and want to join, do so very SOON, so you don’t miss this month’s cut off date for sign ups!

2025 Flowering Sew Sampler Quilt Along!

With the Pieceful Baskets Quilt Along coming to an end, we’re ready to get going with this year’s Sew Sampler Box Sew Along, Flowering, which measures 64.5″ x 84.5″ finished.

The Flowering Quilt ...

The Stars & Gingham Tablerunner may look like it’s no picnic to piece, but join Kimberly for a free video tutorial where she breaks it down into simple bite-sized pieces! Plus, with the help of 1.5″ Half Square Triangle Paper and a strippy shortcut for the gingham, your blocks will be point-perfect. Get ready for your guests to be starstruck at your next backyard bash with this FREE Stars & Gingham Tablerunner pattern!

About the Stars & Gingham Quilt

This pattern finishes at 18.5″ x 54.5″, perfect for adding a twinkle of color to any tablescape. With the help ...

Welcome back to our Classic & Vintage Quilt Series! Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the Ducklings Quilt, a timeless and familiar quilt pattern. Originally found in the Kansas City Star in 1932, the Ducklings block is a new favorite of ours! Join us as we explore the charm of this pattern and share a quilt block video tutorial!

The Ducklings Quilt Pattern

DOWNLOAD THE DUCKLINGS QUILT PATTERN

Our rendition of the Ducklings Quilt Pattern offers Tablerunner, Small Lap, Large Lap, and Queen sizes best tailored to intermediate-level quilters. This pattern can also make for a ...

Y’all love tuning into our Livestreams with Kimberly on our Fat Quarter Shop and Fat Quarter Shop FlossTube channels, and you’ve been very politely requesting that we post our Livestream schedule for you! We love having you there as much as you love watching, so we listened, and we’re back with March’s schedule!

Each month on the Jolly Jabber Blog, we post our Livestream calendar, and each week, we will be posting reminders on our social media pages for that week’s stream. If you’re not already following us on Instagram, you can follow @FatQuarterShop ...

Get ready for the February box reveal! This month, we’re cutting right to the good stuff with the February Sew Sampler box! Peek inside to see the oh-sew-delightful contents.

24-piece Cheerful Piece & Plenty Junior 10″ Stacker by Lori Holt for Riley Blake Designs

There’s so much to “piece” together with this vibrant collection! This lively 24-piece Cheerful Piece & Plenty Junior 10″ Stacker by Lori Holt for Riley Blake Designs adds a burst of beauty to your February. With vintage-inspired prints bursting with florals, flour sacks, and sampler designs, these fabrics are anything but old-fashioned. Dive into this colorful ...

Welcome back to our Classic & Vintage Quilt Series! Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the Amish Star Quilt, which is inspired by a true antique find. All of the Classic & Vintage quilts we have featured so far are from vintage books or the Kansas City Star newspaper. This quilt is different because it’s a recreation of an actual antique quilt we found at Quilt Festival. Join us as we explore the charm of this pattern and share a quilt block video tutorial!

The Amish Star Quilt Pattern

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QuiltCon 2025 was a colorful blur of quilty fun, learning, shopping, and so much inspiration! I’m Kailee, the Content Writer at Fat Quarter Shop, and I got the opportunity to visit QuiltCon for the first time with another first-timer from the team, Marissa, our Social Media Manager. We had so much fun soaking up everything QuiltCon had to offer, and we hope you had just as much fun following along on our adventure through our posts and stories on Facebook and Instagram this weekend. Keep reading for highlights from this weekend, and enter to win a fabric giveaway!

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Back in the Fall of 2023, this quilt started out as a project that I was doing just for fun. I took 2.5″ squares from the scraps of my quilt kits, mini charm packs, and other quilty projects with fabric collections that had 25 or more different SKUs and started building 25-patch blocks. Since I started sharing this project with you at the beginning of last year in the January 26th, 2024 Livestream, you have been asking for a tutorial on how to make a 25-patch block. So, now that I have a plan for the whole project, I ...

Kimberly’s Color is a fun way to bring new color and life into your sewing room each year! For the very first year, you know we had to do something in aqua, and this bright shade of Marina was specially selected by Kimberly Jolly! This limited edition set features some of her favorite notions, including Alphabitties, a Mad for Plaid Project Bag, a Mini Cutting Mat, and a Stash ‘n Store. Keep reading to learn all about these colorful goodies!

Kimberly’s Color Master Set

Pick up all of Kimberly’s favorite notions in the exclusive 2025 color, Marina ...

Let’s take a peek inside the limited edition mystery box of love! The 2025 Cupid Box by Fat Quarter Shop is bursting with quilting fabrics and notions, all with a sweet Valentine’s theme. It’s packed with exclusive goodies that can’t be found elsewhere, including an exclusive project that’ll make your quilting heart sing. Did you get the chance to indulge your quilty heart with these sweet surprises before they flit away?!

Flowers & Chocolates Love Blooms Junior Layer Cake by Lella Boutique for Moda Fabrics

Prepare to fall head over heels for this fabric! Love Blooms ...

To celebrate Black History Month, we’re hosting a fundraiser for UNCF featuring an incredible gift basket filled with sewing treasures from Fat Quarter Shop, Moda Fabrics, and Aurifil! The Quilter’s Dream Basket includes sewing notions and home décor items worth $700. For a chance to win, visit our campaign page and donate by February 28, 2025!

UNCF Fundraiser

Fat Quarter Shop is proud to support UNCF with Stronger Together, an annual fundraiser that has raised over $56,000 for UNCF since 2021. We encourage you to donate $15 or more to our UNCF campaign for the chance to ...

So, while I was visiting Lori in Utah last year, I used her Chunky Thread and made a crochet granny square blanket! When I shared this little project with you on Instagram, so many of you asked for the details and I’m excited to be sharing them with you today. This blanket is a combination of a few of Lori’s tutorials and it works up super quick! Have fun making your own!

Supplies

For this blanket, I wanted something that wasn’t too big but was still cozy enough to cuddle up with while I was stitching. In ...

Cook up this charming quilt and dig into some fun new quilting techniques! Our newest addition to the Shortcut Quilt Series, Charm Pack Chili, is here! You can start sewing Shortcut Quilts right away thanks to their easy designs using precuts! Our Shortcut Quilt patterns are always free and they come with a Fat Quarter Shop YouTube video tutorial.

The Charm Pack Chili Quilt Pattern

DOWNLOAD THE FREE CHARM PACK CHILI QUILT PATTERN

Charm Pack Chili is a beginner friendly quilt designed in a lap size that finishes at 46″ x 53.5 ...