Pictures of Quilts

T-shirt quilts are a great way to create a memory quilt for your son, daughter, or any special person in your life. Give those old t-shirts a new life by making one of these fun quilts.

The miniature quilts and wallhangings in this gallery are all from the book Quick Little Quilts. It's out of print now, but you'll find most of the patterns on About Quilting -- free quilt patterns of course. A few quilts are more time consuming, but all of the quilts are suitable for any skill level, beginning quilter to advanced. All patterns will eventually be online.

Take a look at this gallery to see landscape quilts, pictorials and other types of art quilts. And don't be intimidated by the term art quilt, because anyone can make one, even beginning quilters. An art quilt is simply your own interpretation of any thought that your mind creates.

Joy, one of our Quilting Forum Hostesses, challenged members of the Art Quilts Forum to introduce themselves through literature in quilts. Each quilter chose a piece of literature that she felt close to and produced a quilt based on the work.

JulietDeltaOscar, a member of our Quilting Forums, challenged other members to make a small quilt for Ami Simm's Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative, a project that has raised thousands of dollars for this important research. All of the quilts in this Alzheimer's Quilts Gallery were (or will be) auctioned to help raise money for Alzheimer's research.

All of these quilts were made to heighten awareness for cancer research and to remind us to check what needs to be checked. Some quilts are dedicated to specific individuals and some were donated to fund raising events. Other quilts were made by cancer survivors to chronicle their journey with the disease.

I'd like to introduce you to the About.com Guide to Quilting, part of a series of books based on our Web sites. It's primarily a technique book that takes you step by step though the quiltmaking process, plus covers specific techniques such as appliqué, foundation (paper) piecing, string piecing, rag quilting and lots more. Some of our Forum Hostesses helped me make the project quilts you'll find in the book, and their work illustrates that everyone interprets a pattern differently to create his or her own unique project.

Squares, squares and more squares -- plus quilts that feature rectangles. That's what you'll see in this photo gallery -- a wonderful example that squares in quilts are anything but ordinary!

The quilts in this photo gallery are one-patch quilts -- all made by repeating the same patch over and over throughout the quilt. Portions of a patch are sometimes used around a quilt's jagged edges, but that doesn't take away from it's one-patch status.

You'll see lots of lovely Christmas Quilts -- and other quilts with a winter theme -- in this gallery of quilts made by members of the online quilting community.