Treat Yourself: The Best of 2026
⚡ Quick Answer
- What it is: Missouri Star’s Best of 2026, the year’s most-loved kits, tools, fabric and keepsakes in one place.
- Who picked them: you did. These are the bestsellers, the restock requests and the products makers wouldn’t stop talking about.
- What’s new: look for the ★ New tag. Those launches only just arrived.
- Where to start: The Most Loved of 2026 for the headliners, or Little Luxuries Under $25 for small treats.
- The point: you made beautiful things all year. This one’s for you.
You work hard. You make beautiful things. You deserve the best.
This year you stayed up late finishing a binding. You pieced a quilt for someone who needed it more than you did. You picked out seams, sewed them again, and kept going. So we’re doing something a little different this season. This isn’t a list of things to buy for other people. It’s your permission slip to treat YOURSELF to something special!
The Best of 2026 brings together everything the Missouri Star community loved most this year. It has the tools that changed how you cut and press, the slow-stitching kits that took over evenings on the couch, the fabric that caught your eye, and brand-new launches that have just landed. Why not? You deserve a little reward.
Key Takeaways
- ➤Curated by the community. Every pick earned its spot through bestseller lists, reviews and the questions makers asked us all year.
- ➤New launches get the spotlight. The ★ New tag marks products that arrived this year, many of them only here at Missouri Star.
- ➤Something for every budget. Big splurges sit beside great finds under $50 and little luxuries under $25.
- ➤Slow stitching had a huge year. Embroidery, English paper piecing and crazy quilting are where a lot of makers found their calm.
- ➤Stuck choosing? A Missouri Star gift card lets someone else treat themselves, too.
Jump to a Collection
- The Most Loved of 2026
- The Big Splurge
- Big Value Under $50
- The Art of Slow Stitching
- Ingrid’s Wildflowers
- For the Fabric Lover
- Build Something Beautiful
- Panel Perfection
- Beautifully Unruly
- Missouri Star Winter Village
- The Season’s Fabric
- Little Luxuries Under $25
- The Gift of Missouri Star
The Most Loved of 2026
These are the year’s greatest hits. Some sold out and came back. Some got bought twice, once to keep and once for a friend. All of them got makers talking. If you only browse one part of this guide, make it this one.
Community favorite
Missouri Star + Oliso TG1600 ProPlus Iron
Meet Eva, the Oliso smart iron in Missouri Star aqua with a Quilt Town floral print. It lifts itself off the fabric when you let go, so you won’t scorch a block.
Community favorite
Missouri Star + Oliso M3Pro Mini Iron
Astrid is the mini version, in soft peach. She stands on end and stays right beside your machine while you press seams.
★ New
16″ Rotating Cutting Mat (Hallie)
A self-healing mat that spins a full 360 degrees, so you can square up and trim blocks without moving the fabric.
Community favorite
Palette Pop English Paper Piecing Kit
72 Tula Pink True Colors fabrics, 7 acrylic EPP templates, 100 papers and glue sticks. Makers keep mentioning how well it’s organized.
Community favorite
Feathers and Floss Embroidery Kit
Chicken-and-egg appliqué templates plus a Peel & Stitch book, floss and a project keeper. It’s the one makers turn into tea towels and pillows.
“I put off starting this because it looked overwhelming, but this kit is so well-organized that cutting and basting the pieces was a dream.”
— Judith, on the Palette Pop EPP Kit, verified buyer
Three more of the year’s favorites have their own sections below: the Falling Into EPP Beginner Kit in The Art of Slow Stitching, the Wreath & Repeat Template Builder Set in Build Something Beautiful, and Our History in Stitches in Beautifully Unruly.
The Big Splurge
This is the upgrade you’d never buy yourself until now. You’ve been eyeing these, and you’ve already worked out where they’d go in your sewing room. Every one of them earns its space.
The dream machine
Bernette 79 Sewing and Embroidery Machine
Bernette’s top-of-the-line two-in-one machine. It has every sewing function of the b77 plus built-in embroidery, so one machine does both.
Press like a pro
Oliso TG1600 Pro+ Smart Iron (Pink)
The ProPlus lifts and lowers at the touch of your hand and has a diamond ceramic soleplate. It also comes in yellow.
Thread lover’s dream
Aurifil Tula Pink Full Moon Forest II Thread Collection
Tula Pink picked 45 spools across 50wt, 12wt and 80wt to celebrate her 50th fabric collection, neons included.
Room to press
Reliable The Longboard 350LB Ironing Board
Made in Italy, with a 52″ × 19½″ pressing surface. A whole width of yardage fits at once.
Looking at machines? Browse our Baby Lock sewing machines and the full Oliso iron lineup.
Big Value Under $50
You don’t need a big budget to love what you’ve got. These are the hard-working, smile-making picks that pull their weight every time you sit down to sew.
★ New
Missouri Star Charcuterie Board
A rubberwood board laser-engraved with an eight-point star. It’s about 12″ square and made for your next sewing-night spread.
Community favorite
Missouri Star Quilt Wall (62″ × 72″)
A flannel design wall with a 5″ grid. Your blocks stick without pins, so you can audition layouts before you sew a single seam.
Community favorite
Missouri Star 50″ Quilt Wall
The same pin-free flannel wall at 50″ × 50″. It’s a good fit for smaller rooms and smaller quilts.
★ New
10″ Rotating Cutting Mat (Hilda)
Hallie’s little sister. A spinning, self-healing mat small enough to sit right beside your machine for trimming as you go.
Community favorite
Missouri Star Ultimate Rotary Blade Pack
Five each of 28mm, 45mm and 60mm blades in snap-close cases. Fresh blades are the cheapest upgrade in quilting.
Community favorite
Missouri Star 60mm Rotary Cutter (Greta)
A ball-bearing design that rolls easily through many layers with less strain on your shoulder.
Community favorite
Floral Pattern Binders (2pk)
Two-ring binders with dividers and 10 sleeves each. One floral, one with buttons and Chuck the Duck. Also in geometric and bright.
“I love the clever way to layout my quilt blocks and easily visualize the end result. The material sticks to the flannel wall.”
— Joan, on the Missouri Star Quilt Wall, verified buyer
The Art of Slow Stitching
This is for the maker who loves the journey as much as the finish. Slow stitching is having a moment. It’s a hoop in your lap, a cup of something warm, and nowhere you need to be. Every kit here travels well, too.
★ New
Falling Into EPP Beginner Kit
Everything you need to learn English paper piecing and make an autumn canvas table runner. The leaves are perfect for your scraps.
Community favorite
Missouri Star EPP Beginner Kit
The original starter kit, in a zippered case with an English paper pieced flower on the front. Grab it and go.
Community favorite
Learn Embroidery Stitch by Stitch
Learn 11 stitches and put them to work on 9 ready-to-go Peel & Stitch designs. The kit has everything you need to begin.
Community favorite
Garden Friends Embroidery Kit
Birds, bees, butterflies and ladybugs, packed in an octagon tin.
Community favorite
Enchanted Christmas Keepsake Embroidery Kit
Designs inspired by antique embroidery. Make a piece to pass down.
★ New
Seaside Whimsy Peel & Stitch Pack
25 preprinted 5″ wash-away designs. Pair it with the matching Seaside Whimsy perle cotton pack.
★ New
Ombré All Day Perle Cotton Floss Pack
Nine balls of variegated #8 perle cotton. The color shifts as you stitch.
Community favorite
Adjustable Tabletop Embroidery Hoop Stand
A beechwood stand that holds 5″–12″ hoops at an adjustable angle, with a notion tray and floss pegs.
“I have arthritis in my hands but love embroidery. This is a great help. My hands do not have to hold the hoop.”
— Olga, on the Tabletop Embroidery Hoop Stand, verified buyer
💡 Pro Tip: New to Peel & Stitch? Stick the design on, stitch right through it, then soak the piece in water, and the printed sheet washes away. Stitch through the design before you soak it. Once it’s wet, the lines are gone. Browse every design in our Peel & Stitch design packs.
Ingrid’s Wildflowers
Ingrid’s Wildflowers started with denim squares that Jenny’s grandmother embroidered, later pieced into a quilt. Today it has a following all its own. This is the whole family, from the original heirloom tin to the bags and cases that keep your stitching close.
Where it all began
Ingrid’s Wildflowers Heirloom Embroidery Kit
The original tin: 20 preprinted Peel & Stitch wildflower designs with instruction cards and everything you need to start stitching.
Ingrid’s family
Ingrid’s II Perle Cotton Floss Pack
Nine size 8 perle cotton balls chosen to go with the Ingrid’s Wildflowers 2nd Edition designs.
Ingrid’s family
Ingrid’s Second Edition Peel & Stitch Design Pack
25 more 5″ wildflower designs. This is the next bouquet once you’ve finished the first.
★ New
Ingrid’s Tabletop Maker’s Caddy
A canvas caddy that stands open on its flat bottom, with outside pockets so you can see your tools.
Ingrid’s family
Ingrid’s Wildflowers Project Case
Zippered pockets, a mesh divider and a little bee charm. It keeps a whole work in progress together.
Ingrid’s family
Ingrid’s Nesting Zipper Cases (4pk)
Four hard-shell cases, from 11″ square down to 5″, that nest together when they’re empty.
Ingrid’s family
Ingrid’s Magnetic Pin Bowl
A 4″ magnetic bowl with a wildflower motif. Your pins stay put.
Ingrid’s family
Ingrid’s Wildflowers 20oz Travel Tumbler
An insulated tumbler printed with how to make 11 common embroidery stitches. It’s a cheat sheet you can sip from.
“I have finished all 20 of the embroidery designs. I am using my husband’s old jeans, and I am making a bed runner/scarf from the kit. It will be a memory quilt.”
— Cindy, on the Ingrid’s Wildflowers kit, verified buyer
➤ Shop the full Ingrid’s Wildflowers collection
For the Fabric Lover
This one’s for you if your eyes light up at a new colorway. These kits and bundles are the reason you cleared a shelf. Open the box and you’ll want to head straight to your sewing room.
Hero kit
Moonlit Garden Quilt Kit
From Natalie Crabtree’s Everbloom series of raw-edge appliqué quilts. It comes with the pattern, appliqué template sheets, and fabric for the top and binding.
★ New
Gifted Quilt Kit
Pieced presents tied with bows, in Morris & Co.’s Suffolk Holiday prints for FreeSpirit.
★ New
Snow Friends Quilt Kit
Penguins and snowmen in cozy flannel from Studio E’s Cool Club collection.
★ New
Winter Town Quilt Kit
Wendy Sheppard’s pieced winter scene for Windham. It’s beginner-friendly.
★ New
Gifts of Gratitude Advent Calendar Kit
A countdown quilt from Henry Glass. The backing fabric is included, too.
★ New
Terry Indigo Denim Crossbody Bag Kit
Sallie Tomato’s Terry bag in washed denim, faux leather and cork, with all the hardware and all three flap styles.
Fat quarter bundle
Floral Reef Fat Quarter Bundle
25 fat quarters of Tula Pink’s scales, waves and fish for FreeSpirit.
Fat quarter bundle
Jingle Bell Fat Quarter Bundle
Vintage-feel winter florals, berries and plaids from Laundry Basket Quilts for Andover.
➤ Browse every fat quarter bundle
Build Something Beautiful
Missouri Star Template Builder Sets are durable acrylic appliqué shapes you mix, match and layer into your own designs. They’re for the maker who’s ready to go past the basics, and they’re easy at any skill level.
★ New
Wreath & Repeat Template Builder Set
New aqua glitter acrylic. Leaves, bows, petals, snowflakes and shamrocks for appliqué all year long.
★ New
Purrfectly Yours Template Builder Set
17 shapes, from a stretching cat to a kitten batting at a butterfly.
Builder set
Gnome for the Holidays Template Builder Set
Mix-and-match hats, beards and noses, so every gnome is one of a kind.
Builder set
O Holy Night Template Builder Set
13 templates for a complete Nativity scene, stable and all.
Builder set
Potions & Bottles Template Builder Set
Six bottles with nested labels and toppers. They’re frighteningly cute.
“It is a perfect quick project to make seasonal door hangings for my mom’s room in memory care. Some of the other residents love to see the different quilted door hangings and often ask what I’m making next for her door.”
— Janice, on the Wreath & Repeat set, verified buyer
➤ Shop all Template Builder Sets
Panel Perfection
These embroidery panels are the projects people stop scrolling for. Each 100% cotton panel has a wash-away print, embroidery instructions and a customizable quilt label. They’re beautiful, doable and completely worth making.
Hero panel
Treasured Peacock Embroidery Panel
The hero. It comes with a pattern for adding pieced borders to make a wall hanging and a set of pillows.
“It looks easy enough for me to do this. I will be using it as a winter project to work on while watching college basketball games.”
— Mary, on the Treasured Peacock panel, verified buyer
➤ Shop all Missouri Star Embroidery Panels
Beautifully Unruly
Crazy quilting is having a moment, and Missouri Star is leading it. There are no rules here. You stitch odd-shaped scraps together, then cover the seams in embroidery until every inch tells a story. Many makers are using fabric from clothing that belonged to someone they love.
Hero kit
Our History in Stitches: A Crazy Quilt Embroidery Kit
Everything you need to embroider your own style onto a crazy quilt: perle cotton, Peel & Stitch designs and templates.
Hero kit
Our History in Stitches: Crazy Quilt Fabric Stash
A pattern and 37 fabrics chosen for texture and personality, for a 64″ × 77″ quilt. Mix in your own scraps.
“My mother had done some crazy quilt stitching when I was a girl, and I remember wanting to try and do some like she had.”
— Ann, on Our History in Stitches, verified buyer
➤ Explore the Crazy Quilt collection
Missouri Star Winter Village
Can’t make it to Hamilton this season? Bring Quilt Town home. Each resin piece is a scale replica of a real Missouri Star shop, dusted with snow and dressed for the holidays. Line them up on the mantel and you’ve got your own little Main Street.
Winter Village
Mercantile Shop
A cat and a sewing machine in the windows, plus three festive potted trees.
Winter Village
Quilted Home & Santa’s Sewing Shop
Wrapped gifts, ornaments and quilts fill the shop windows.
“It is well made and when we put a light in it you can see it shine through. Goes well with the MSQ building we bought last year. We have visited MSQ and these bring back happy memories.”
— Amy, on the Mercantile Shop, verified buyer
➤ Shop the full Winter Village
The Season’s Fabric
Some fabric just makes the season feel special. Start with Christmas in Quilt Town, our own holiday line, then wander through every Christmas fabric collection we carry.
Fat quarter bundle
Holiday Flourish Forest Glen Evergreen FQB
23 fat quarters of pinecones and poinsettias with metallic highlights, from Robert Kaufman.
Fat quarter bundle
Holiday Flourish Forest Glen Crimson FQB
The crimson colorway, plus two 24″ panels.
Fat quarter bundle
Hearth and Home Fat Quarter Bundle
34 fat quarters of warm country florals from Janet Rae Nesbitt for Henry Glass.
Little Luxuries Under $25
The best things come in small packages. These are the notions, tools and little indulgences that make your sewing room a nicer place to be. You’ll reach for them every single day.
★ New
Ultra Soft Grip Scissors 6¼″ (Maya)
Cushioned handles and micro-serrated blades that cause less hand strain over long sessions. Her big sister Alva is 9″.
★ New
Missouri Star LED Clip-On Light
Rechargeable, with three light settings and a clip that holds. Point it right where you’re stitching.
★ New
Missouri Star Bias Binding Kit
Four tools for single- and double-fold binding in several sizes, plus an awl to feed the strips.
★ New
Hamilton Homecoming Nesting Zipper Cases (3pk)
Three cases that nest inside each other, for bobbins, clips and small tools.
★ New
Chuck Floss Bobbins and Storage Box
15 wooden Chuck bobbins that stand in their own box. No more tangled floss.
★ New
Wall Hanging Clips (Walnut)
Wooden clips that hang quilts up to ¼″ thick without pins or a sleeve. Also in white.
Community favorite
Missouri Star 45mm Rotary Cutter (Olga)
The everyday-size cutter with a smooth-rolling ball-bearing design. Her little sister Klara is 28mm.
Community favorite
Missouri Star Rag Snips (Nova)
Spring-action snips made for clipping thick rag quilt seams.
★ New
Lookin’ Sharp Lipstick Pincushion
It looks like a lipstick tube. Pull off the cap and a pincushion pops up. Made for your class tote.
★ New
Quilter’s Rule Tape Measure
A compact, retractable tape in Missouri Star aqua for your cutting table or retreat bag.
Finishing touch
Labels of Love: Love Belongs in Every Stitch
Pre-folded, double-sided quilt labels with sweet phrases, plus two write-in labels.
“The Missouri Star LED Clip-On Light is very lightweight, but the clamp holds strong.”
— Kaye, on the LED Clip-On Light, verified buyer
The Gift of Missouri Star
Someone in your life deserves a treat-yourself moment too. When you know they’ll love Missouri Star but you’re not sure what to pick, let them choose. Our new gift card designs feel like a real present, and they come in amounts from $10 to $500.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Missouri Star Best of 2026?
It’s our roundup of the year’s most-loved products: bestsellers, community favorites and brand-new launches, organized into 13 collections from big splurges to little luxuries under $25.
How did you choose the products?
We looked at what makers bought, reviewed, restocked and asked about all year, then added the new launches that became instant favorites.
What does the ★ New tag mean?
It marks products that launched this year. Many of them are Missouri Star originals you’ll only find here.
I’m new to hand stitching. Where should I start?
The Learn Embroidery Stitch by Stitch kit teaches 11 stitches with designs ready to go, and the Falling Into EPP Beginner Kit walks you through English paper piecing with one small project.
Will these products sell out?
Some of last year’s favorites did, and several picks here are limited runs. If something catches your eye, it’s safest not to wait.
What if I can’t decide?
A Missouri Star gift card lets you, or someone you love, pick later.