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For more than 30 years, I’ve been making quilts, learning new techniques, using different tools and machines, teaching others and solving problems along the way. The AQH Resource Library brings those experiences together with practical information, tips, videos, guides, charts, projects and resources to help you make informed decisions and keep learning. You don’t have to read it in order. Start with what you need today and come back as your questions, skills and quilting change.
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Learn. Quilt. Grow.
You may start with questions about making a quilt—fabric, patterns, thread, batting or binding. Then comes the next question: How am I going to quilt it?
Explore quilting methods, learn about rulers and free motion, understand your equipment, or begin using Pro-Stitcher.
As your skills grow, the Member Library goes deeper with longarm quilting on a frame, quilting designs, digital quilting, quilt math, thread and tension, creative projects and real quilts where I share the decisions I made and what I learned.
Build the foundation
The fundamentals. Start here if you're new to a machine, a technique, or the whole thing.
Build your skills, creativity and confidence
The deep end. Owner's documentation, full walkthroughs, and the answers Barb gives on the phone.
The Free and Member Libraries work together. Start with the question you have today. When you want more detail, creative ideas or information to build your skills, explore where that subject can take you next.
Start where you are. Find what you need. Explore more when you’re ready.
See what’s inside
Explore a few resources from the AQH Library and see how Barb approaches quiltmaking and quilting—the planning, choices, why it matters, and things that don’t always make it into a pattern or online tutorial.
Note Three resources are Free. The Member Preview shows how we go deeper.
What membership adds You explain the whole process and the why, not just individual steps.
What membership adds Your strongest differentiator—helping someone make decisions about their own quilt.
What membership adds Practical, downloadable information worth keeping and returning to.
What membership adds Shows what Paid adds: Barb’s planning, thought process, options, problems and design decisions.
I created this Library because I don’t believe there is only one right way to make or quilt a quilt—and I want you to understand why, not simply follow someone else’s steps.
There are wonderful classes and videos that show you exactly what to do, but they don’t always show the choices, mistakes, practice and problem-solving behind the finished project.
I share what I’ve learned from making quilts, teaching, experimenting and sometimes discovering the hard way what doesn’t work. My goal is to give you the information behind the process so you can understand your choices, solve problems and decide what works for you.
Choose your access
The Free Library gives you a foundation for making quilts, understanding quilting methods, learning Pro-Stitcher basics, exploring Handi Quilter features and finding practical quilting help.
There is no trial clock and no credit card required. Use the Free Library for as long as it is helpful to you.
When you’re ready to go further, the Member Library builds on that foundation with more in-depth education for quiltmakers and longarm quilters—quilting on a frame, digital quilting, design decisions, quilting designs, quilt math, thread and tension, projects and more.
You decide when you’re ready for more.
Create Free Account
No credit card required.
Understand the process. Explore your options.
Go deeper. Build skills, creativity & confidence.
$19 / month or $149 / year
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Join the Member Library Learn the why. Understand your choices. Make it your own.
More than instructions
Patterns and videos can show you what to do. Barb wants you to understand what they don’t always tell you.
The AQH Library shares the knowledge behind the instructions—how to plan before you begin, why a step matters, what choices you have, what can go wrong, and what you can do differently.
You’ll see Barb’s real-world experience, experiments, mistakes, problem-solving and design decisions—not just a perfectly finished project.
Learn the why. Explore the possibilities. Quilt with confidence.
When you create a Free Library account, you’ll receive free tokens to get you started. Paid members receive additional tokens as part of their membership.
Use your tokens when you find something in the Library that you want to purchase and keep, such as:
Look for the Buy to Download button. You can use your available tokens to unlock the resource and download it to keep.
Your tokens don’t expire, so you don’t have to use them right away. Save them until you find a guide, design or project you really want.
Your Library access gives you the learning. Tokens give you another way to choose and keep the special resources you want.