Quilting This pathfinder is designed to help you find sites on the web, print sources and organizations that offer information, advice and patterns for quilting. Quilting is the art of joining pieces of fabric together with small stitches, often with padding in between. There are many techniques for creating the patchwork portion of your quilt, such as foundation piecing, crazy piecing, strip piecing and appliqu .
Quilts can be functional or decorative, or somewhere in between.
This guide is not meant to be exhaustive, but to provide a starting point for learning about quilting. I've included some suggestions for finding print resources , links to the home pages of some quilting associations as well as to some online quilting resources . There are many quilting books published every year, ranging from titles written to help someone who has never quilted or sewn before, to books designed for the expert fabric artist. Under the Dewey Decimal Classification, which is used by most public libraries, books about quilting are classified at 746.46. The Library of Congress Classification System is used to organize books in many academic and university libraries throughout the United States and the world.