Where to Find Free Baby Quilts and Soft-Sculpture Patterns with Instructions

Cheri Majors, M.S.
Visualizing Your Project

One of the hardest things to do is visualizing a project through to completion without a pattern model, pictures or instructions. Sometimes just a picture will help inspire your creative undertaking, but when it comes to your baby you want something tried and true, with instructions.

These baby quilt patterns and soft-sculptures are some of the most unique freebies offered online. Free patterns are included for baby boys and baby girls, as well as shared themes, for both beginner and advanced quilters.

Free Baby Quilt Patterns

Cute Quilt Patterns.com has a free download for "Row, Row, Row Your Boat Boy Baby Quilt Pattern" with large shapes and optional embroidery. All People Quilt.com offers a wide selection of free baby quilt patterns with full slide-show instructions to download, as in their "Hearts & Flowers Appliqué Quilt" .

Quilt Maker.com has the pattern and instructions for a very easy block quilt available for free download, their popular "Super-Sized Nine Patch" baby quilt. Quilt Pox.com has the patterns and full instructions for quilting a more-difficult mini-square baby quilt "Hugs & Kisses (XOXOXO)". And PB &Textiles at PBTEX.com offer a large selection of free baby quilt downloads such as their adorable patriotic, advanced-quilters baby quilt "Stars & Stripes".

Soft Sculpture Quilt Toys

WelcometoCranstonVillage.com offers a free download pattern with instructions for a 3-dimensional looking, shadow-box wall-hanging "A Day at the Calico Zoo Quilt". A free soft sculpture quilt toy pattern and instructions for "Soft Baby (Alphabet) Blocks" can be downloaded courtesy of AllPeopleQuilt.com.

An assortment of soft-sculptured patchwork-quilt, baby pillow-toys in "Novelty Pillow Patterns" are available free from Robert Kaufman Fabrics online. And AllCrafts.net offers a free pattern and instructions to make an incredible patchwork quilt "Giraffe Growth Chart", which could also double as a play-mat!

Published by Cheri Majors, M.S.

A former model/actress who changed careers and college degrees to care for more than 70 special-needs foster children, while earning a Master's degree in Human Sciences & Early Childhood Education. Authored...  View profile

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  • Laura Everly2/28/2011

    Good article....Laura Everly

  • Martin Kloess2/26/2011

    you and my mom could hav hung out

  • Lori Gunn2/25/2011

    Thanks for the great write ♥

  • Tricia Goss2/25/2011

    I seriously need to learn how to quilt, especially with my grandson on the way~

  • Lee Hansen2/25/2011

    Wouldn't that be lovely!

  • Theresa Suttles2/25/2011

    Saving these for future reference. I would love to make one of these.

  • R. K. LoBello2/25/2011

    So cute....I'd need very good instructions...lol.

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