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About NSQ

Coming in August, 2025 is Laura’s book, Modern Improv Quilting: Be the Boss of Your Design. Published by C&T Publishing, the book is full of modern improv techniques and projects to get you started. It is available now for pre-order!

Pre-Order Modern Improv Quilting

Pre-ordering is also available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble

Hi, I’m Laura Veenema

Welcome to New Song Quilting, LLC (NSQ). I am so glad you're here!
I am Laura, the creative director behind New Song Quilting Co . I work with a small team from my home studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Quilting started as just a hobby, but when my youngest son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at just eleven months old, my career in education suddenly pivoted and the NSQ brand was born.
Most NSQ quilts are made-to-order, so contact us right away. We work about 6 months out. Periodically, though, we do drop existing bags and stocking inventory that we sell under the SHOP tab. Sign up for our newsletter to get first notice about shop drops.
We’d love to connect on instagram and facebook. Every “like,” comment, and referral helps support our small business. THANK YOU!

Made To Last

New Song Quilts are made to be used, washed, and used again. All of our quilts are made with 100% cotton thread and high-quality cotton, linen, and/or chambray fabrics. We especially like to use wool or bamboo batting for the extra lofty, cozy feel. Our quilts are machine pieced, quilted, and bound so they stay secure wash after wash.

Sending this gal off to the long arm today! 🍁

Binding quilts is legit cardio and I’m not even embarrassed about it. Anyone else sweating by the end? What’s the heaviest quilt you’ve bound? I did two queen sized, wool-batted quilts in a row on the same evening and regretted the

Yeah no, definitely not too early to start on Christmas stockings.

#nsqchristmas #mademarketgr #handmadechristmas #shopsmall #candystripestockings

As an online-only small business, we (unfortunately?) rely on platforms like Instagram and its algorithm for marketing, networking, and general getting-the-word-out-ness. And a lot of the success of that is up to that capricious, mysterious algorithm

Okay party people! You wanted capes! We got capes!

Thanks to everyone who sent DMs with recommendations for what we should bring to the @mademarket on Dec 12. Please keep em coming! What shall we bring? Any thoughts you have are GOOD ONES!

No idea

Bippity boppity

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#nsqwands #happyhome #handmadecostume #mademarket @mademarket #velvet #wand #modernquilt #michiganmade #michiganmaker #shopsmall #smallbusinesssupport #shine #shineyourlight

This quilt was another special, sacred project for a baby-to-be. A tangible reminder of hope for a beautiful couple waiting for a miracle.

What a gift projects like this are for us. We continue to be so humbled to be invited into your stories and s

Must. Have. More. Color.

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#quiltseason #cozyhome #cozyvibes
#nsqpatterns #shapeuppattern #modernquiltpattern #quiltpatterns #patterndesigner
#myquiltsaremyfriends #quiltersofinstagram #quiltsofinstagram #modernquilting #modernquilts #newsongqu

Okay I’m calling it. It’s officially quilt season! 🥳🍂⛅️

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#quiltseason #cozyhome #cozyvibes
#nsqpatterns #shapeuppattern #modernquiltpattern #quiltpatterns #patterndesigner
#myquiltsaremyfriends #quiltersofinstagram #quiltsofinstagra

Sept 18. Treetops Collective. Online Auction. Eek!

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Link in stories!
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We are huge fans of Treetops Collective, a local nonprofit in west Michigan that partners with new American women to give them a place of connection and belonging here in their

Sometimes we make a quilt like this on a whim (“just a whim, Scott! A silly whim!” Can anyone name that 1980s movie?!?) and then we throw it into the instaverse to see if anyone wants to claim it! Like a split second pop-up sale!

So plea

#1 or #2?

Our friend, @kellyventuradesign sent us the world’s most beautiful fabric from her upcoming collection. (Literally. There is no more beautiful fabric in the universe. And I will not be swayed otherwise. So there.)

We are using this

Sometimes clients have a v specific vision of the colors they want in a custom quilt. We go back and forth with swatches and photos and “let’s go warmer” or “let’s add a neutral” or “of course, we can add mor

“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”

Mary Oliver

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#maryoliver #kindness #morningmotivation #joycomesinthemorning #handmade #h

Still some of our favorite pieces from the NSQ summer sale ✨ We are working to stock back up for a Christmas sale in November (!!)
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#linen #consciousclothing #newsongquiltingco #modernhome @westelmgr #cozyhome #handmadehome #slowfashionstyle #slow

There is great comfort in quilting, for me. The hum of the machine, the way my hands fill a bobbin or thread a needle just by feel, the evidence that after a day with little tangible proof that I was productive (shaping tiny souls is a long game,) I

Trying to scatter some joy today ✨

.

#modernquiltpattern #quiltpatterns #patterndesigner
#myquiltsaremyfriends #quiltersofinstagram #quiltsofinstagram #modernquilting #modernquilts #newsongquiltingco #michiganders #michiganmade #makersofinstagram

Did you know that you can alter the Shape Up! Pattern to fit your skill preference?

Never sewn curves before? You can leave out the circles and semi-circles entirely! Not a fan of half-square triangles? Skip em!

There is freedom in this pattern to

IT IS PATTERN RELEASE DAY!! 🥳✨ The Shape Up! Quilt pattern is in the SHOPS!

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NB: in the ETSY shop (swipe up in stories for the link) the pattern is too big for a digital download. So you’ll purchase a “physical” pattern that we w

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MODERN QUILTS GALLERY

A visual gallery of NSQ quilts

MODERN QUILTS GALLERY

A visual gallery of NSQ quilts

Not Your

Grandma’s Quilts

New Song Quilts are improv pieced into modern designs – using modern solid fabrics. We make quilts of all sizes, colors, and designs, but no two will ever be exactly the same.

See more examples of our work on instagram!

Sending this gal off to the long arm today! 🍁

Binding quilts is legit cardio and I’m not even embarrassed about it. Anyone else sweating by the end? What’s the heaviest quilt you’ve bound? I did two queen sized, wool-batted quilts in a row on the same evening and regretted the

Yeah no, definitely not too early to start on Christmas stockings.

#nsqchristmas #mademarketgr #handmadechristmas #shopsmall #candystripestockings

As an online-only small business, we (unfortunately?) rely on platforms like Instagram and its algorithm for marketing, networking, and general getting-the-word-out-ness. And a lot of the success of that is up to that capricious, mysterious algorithm

Okay party people! You wanted capes! We got capes!

Thanks to everyone who sent DMs with recommendations for what we should bring to the @mademarket on Dec 12. Please keep em coming! What shall we bring? Any thoughts you have are GOOD ONES!

No idea

Bippity boppity

.
#nsqwands #happyhome #handmadecostume #mademarket @mademarket #velvet #wand #modernquilt #michiganmade #michiganmaker #shopsmall #smallbusinesssupport #shine #shineyourlight

This quilt was another special, sacred project for a baby-to-be. A tangible reminder of hope for a beautiful couple waiting for a miracle.

What a gift projects like this are for us. We continue to be so humbled to be invited into your stories and s

Must. Have. More. Color.

.

.
#quiltseason #cozyhome #cozyvibes
#nsqpatterns #shapeuppattern #modernquiltpattern #quiltpatterns #patterndesigner
#myquiltsaremyfriends #quiltersofinstagram #quiltsofinstagram #modernquilting #modernquilts #newsongqu

Okay I’m calling it. It’s officially quilt season! 🥳🍂⛅️

.
#quiltseason #cozyhome #cozyvibes
#nsqpatterns #shapeuppattern #modernquiltpattern #quiltpatterns #patterndesigner
#myquiltsaremyfriends #quiltersofinstagram #quiltsofinstagra

Sept 18. Treetops Collective. Online Auction. Eek!

.
Link in stories!
.

We are huge fans of Treetops Collective, a local nonprofit in west Michigan that partners with new American women to give them a place of connection and belonging here in their

Sometimes we make a quilt like this on a whim (“just a whim, Scott! A silly whim!” Can anyone name that 1980s movie?!?) and then we throw it into the instaverse to see if anyone wants to claim it! Like a split second pop-up sale!

So plea

#1 or #2?

Our friend, @kellyventuradesign sent us the world’s most beautiful fabric from her upcoming collection. (Literally. There is no more beautiful fabric in the universe. And I will not be swayed otherwise. So there.)

We are using this

Sometimes clients have a v specific vision of the colors they want in a custom quilt. We go back and forth with swatches and photos and “let’s go warmer” or “let’s add a neutral” or “of course, we can add mor

“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”

Mary Oliver

.
#maryoliver #kindness #morningmotivation #joycomesinthemorning #handmade #h

Still some of our favorite pieces from the NSQ summer sale ✨ We are working to stock back up for a Christmas sale in November (!!)
.
.
#linen #consciousclothing #newsongquiltingco #modernhome @westelmgr #cozyhome #handmadehome #slowfashionstyle #slow

There is great comfort in quilting, for me. The hum of the machine, the way my hands fill a bobbin or thread a needle just by feel, the evidence that after a day with little tangible proof that I was productive (shaping tiny souls is a long game,) I

Trying to scatter some joy today ✨

.

#modernquiltpattern #quiltpatterns #patterndesigner
#myquiltsaremyfriends #quiltersofinstagram #quiltsofinstagram #modernquilting #modernquilts #newsongquiltingco #michiganders #michiganmade #makersofinstagram

Did you know that you can alter the Shape Up! Pattern to fit your skill preference?

Never sewn curves before? You can leave out the circles and semi-circles entirely! Not a fan of half-square triangles? Skip em!

There is freedom in this pattern to

IT IS PATTERN RELEASE DAY!! 🥳✨ The Shape Up! Quilt pattern is in the SHOPS!

.
NB: in the ETSY shop (swipe up in stories for the link) the pattern is too big for a digital download. So you’ll purchase a “physical” pattern that we w