New to designing quilts
Design your first quilt
From a bed size to a cutting chart in an evening. Four short guides, in order.
Guides
Quilt design, worked out.
Charts, calculators and step-by-step guides for planning, cutting and printing a quilt, and how to do each one in Quarter Inch. Every number is worked out by the engine that cuts your quilts.
Start here
Pick the path that sounds like you.
Coming from EQ8
Bring your EQ8 quilts with you
Find your projects, open them on any device, and see what came across.
Pattern designers
Make a pattern people can trust
Up to five sizes from one design, with charts that are checked, not typed.
Calculators
The sums, done right.
Free, no account. Change the size and the answer changes, to the ⅛ yard.
Quilt backing calculator
How much backing fabric to buy for any quilt, seamed down the middle or across, or 108″ wide.
Throw, 60″ × 72″4½ yd · 1 seam
Quilt binding calculator
How many binding strips to cut and how much fabric to buy for any quilt, straight or on the bias.
Throw, 2½″ strips7 strips · ½ yd
Half-square triangles
What size to cut half-square triangles: finished + ⅞″ two at a time, and the sizes for four and eight at a time.
4″ finished, two at a timecut 4⅞″ squares
Quarter-square triangles
What size square to cut for quarter-square triangles and hourglass units: finished + 1¼″, or + 1½″ to trim.
4″ finished, four at a timecut 5¼″ squares
Everything
Four shelves of guides.
Quilt math
27 guidesHow big, how much fabric, what size to cut.
Techniques
17 guidesDesigning, piecing, cutting, printing, appliqué and quilting, step by step.
Coming from EQ8
14 guidesYour EQ8 and EQ7 projects: where they are, how to open them on any device, and what comes across.
Using Quarter Inch
71 guidesOne task a page, with the buttons named as the app names them, and what’s different on an iPad or a phone.
Blocks
524 traditional blocks, each cut three ways.
Every block drafted as exact geometry, with its cutting at 6″, 9″ and 12″ and how it’s sewn.
Updated recently
Checked and changed.
A number looks wrong? What to check, and how to tell usUsing Quarter Inch · Add appliqué to a quiltUsing Quarter Inch · Add borders to a quilt: plain, corner squares, piecedUsing Quarter Inch · Add quilting stencils and import a DXF or QLI fileUsing Quarter Inch · Add sizes and colorways to a quilt patternUsing Quarter Inch · Add your own fabricsUsing Quarter Inch ·
Can’t find it? Write to us at hello@quarterinch.app and a person answers. What you ask helps us choose the next guide.
Quarter Inch is independent and not affiliated with The Electric Quilt Company.
Design it, then cut it right.
Quarter Inch works out every cut, yardage and template for the quilt you design, on your iPad, Mac or any browser.
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