Using Quarter Inch
How to do it in Quarter Inch.
One task a page, with the buttons named as the app names them, and what’s different on an iPad or a phone. Each page says whether it’s on the Free plan or needs Quilter.
Free on the Free plan · Quilter needs Quilter · no tag: the same on both
Getting started
Your first quilt, the plans, signing in and your library.
Design your first quilt in ten minutes
Design a quilt in Quarter Inch, step by step: choose a size, a layout, blocks and fabrics, change it in the designer, then see the yardage. Free.
FreeWhat’s free in Quarter Inch, and what Quilter adds
Quarter Inch’s Free plan opens every EQ file and designs 3 quilts. Quilter ($9 a month or $89 a year) adds cutting charts, printing and no limit.
Sign in without a password, with an email code
Sign in to Quarter Inch, or make your account, with a 6-digit code sent to your email. No password. How long codes last, and what to do if one doesn’t come.
Find a quilt in your library: search, filters, labels
Find a quilt in your Quarter Inch library with search, filters and sorting, and learn what each card label means, from ✓ Exact to Cutting · 10 of 22.
Using Quarter Inch on iPad and with Apple Pencil
Quarter Inch works in Safari on iPad, with touch and Apple Pencil: place blocks, pinch to zoom, draw blocks and curves, and open your EQ8 files.
Using Quarter Inch on a phone
Design, change, cut and print quilts on your phone with Quarter Inch, held either way. How the editor’s sheet works, and opening EQ files on a phone.
Start from a sample quilt and make it your own
Start from one of six finished sample quilts in Quarter Inch, crib to queen, each ready to change. Choose Make it mine to save a copy to your library, free.
FreeGetting a deleted quilt back
Deleted a quilt in Quarter Inch by mistake? It waits in Recently deleted for 30 days. Choose Put back to return it to your library.
Bringing quilts from EQ
Opening and importing EQ8 and EQ7 files, and changing them.
Open an EQ8 or EQ7 file without an account
Open .pj8 and .pj7 files in your browser with Quarter Inch, free and without an account. See each quilt drawn, then save them to your library if you like.
FreeImport your whole My EQ8 folder
Bring every EQ8 and EQ7 project across to Quarter Inch at once: choose your My EQ8 folder, and each quilt appears in your library as it’s read. Free.
FreeSee what came across from an EQ file: the Import report
Every EQ file you bring to Quarter Inch has an Import report: what’s drawn exactly, matched, kept in your original, or not drawn yet. Here’s how to read it.
FreeChange an EQ8 or EQ7 quilt: blocks, colors and size
Change a quilt from EQ8 or EQ7 in Quarter Inch: blocks, colors, size and borders. Why some parts show a padlock, and how to get EQ’s version back.
Update an imported EQ quilt when we read it better
When Quarter Inch’s EQ reader improves, quilts it can now draw better are marked Update ready. Review each change, then update, keeping your own changes.
Open EQ8 quilts with lettering, photos, embroidery, curves
See how Quarter Inch draws, changes and cuts EQ8 lettering, photos, embroidery and curved blocks, and what stays as EQ made it.
Save the fabric prints from your EQ8 files
Keep the printed fabrics from your EQ8 files in Quarter Inch’s My fabrics, with EQ’s swatch, and use them in any quilt. Save one, or Save all.
If an EQ file won’t open
Why an EQ8 or EQ7 file won’t open in Quarter Inch, and what to do: not an EQ project, an older EQ version, over 25 MB, or damaged. We can move it by hand.
Starting a quilt
The ways to start, the layouts, borders and sizes.
Four ways to start a new quilt
Start a quilt in Quarter Inch four ways: Guided, Describe it, From a sample or Blank. Plus a precut you have, or your own layout. Free for 3 quilts.
FreeChoose a quilt layout: sashing, on point, half drop, more
Every layout in Quarter Inch, from Side by side to One big star: where to choose it, the sizes it offers, and how to change it in the designer.
FreeAdd borders to a quilt: plain, corner squares, pieced
Add, widen, restyle or remove a quilt’s borders in Quarter Inch: plain, corner squares, sawtooth, flying geese, piano keys or checkerboard, made to fit.
FreeMake a quilt bigger or smaller
Resize a quilt in Quarter Inch: more or fewer blocks, a new block size, Make another size, or Resize to throw, twin, queen or king for a quilt from EQ.
FreeStart a quilt from a precut you have
Start a quilt in Quarter Inch from a charm pack, layer cake, jelly roll or fat quarters: what it makes, how many pieces it uses, and what else to buy.
FreeMake a sampler quilt with blocks of different sizes
Make a sampler in Quarter Inch with blocks of different sizes placed by measurement. The background is pieced into rectangles with cutting and sewing steps.
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Blocks
The library, drawing your own, curves, diamonds and hexagons.
Find a block in the library
Search 524 quilt blocks in Quarter Inch by any name they go by, browse by shape, and filter by look, difficulty and how they’re sewn. Free.
FreeDraw your own block
Draw your own quilt block in Quarter Inch: choose a grid, draw seams point to point, fill units, color by role, and save it to My blocks. Free.
FreeMake a symmetrical quilt block: repeat, mirror, kaleidoscope
Draw symmetric quilt blocks in Quarter Inch: mirror, four turns and kaleidoscope copy each line as you draw. Plus copy, turn and paste pieces.
FreeDraw curved quilt blocks: quarter circles and arcs
Draw curved quilt blocks in Quarter Inch with the Arc tool: quarter circles and bent lines that snap to exact curves, checked for how easy they are to sew.
FreeDesign hexagon, diamond and tumbling block quilts
Make hexagon, tumbling block and 60° triangle quilts in Quarter Inch, and draw your own blocks on the 45° star and 60° grids. Exact, never rounded.
FreeMake Lone Star, Dresden plate and wedge quilt blocks
Find Le Moyne and Lone Stars, Kaleidoscopes, Dresden plates, fans and compasses in Quarter Inch: where they are, how they’re cut, and drawing your own star.
FreeFind block pieces too small or too sharp to sew
See how Quarter Inch warns about quilt block pieces too narrow, too small or too sharp to sew, at the size you’ll make it, and the fixes it offers.
FreeShare a block, or take a copy of one
Share a quilt block you drew in Quarter Inch with other quilters, without your name, or take a copy of a block they shared. Free.
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Appliqué
Shapes, stems and vines, and their templates.
Add appliqué to a quilt
Add appliqué in Quarter Inch: starter shapes, stems and vines placed in squares or borders, measured from the creases, and appliqué from EQ8 changed too.
FreeDraw or trace an appliqué shape
Draw your own appliqué shape in Quarter Inch, tidied into true lines and curves, or trace one from a photo sized with a ruler. Saved in My shapes. Free.
FreePrint appliqué templates and placement guides
Print appliqué templates in Quarter Inch at true size for fusible, turned edge or needle-turn, reversed only where it matters, with a placement sheet.
Quilter
Color and fabrics
Coloring a quilt, your own fabrics, your stash and fabric settings.
Color a quilt: Paint, Swap and Try a palette
Change a quilt’s fabrics in Quarter Inch: one fabric everywhere, a whole palette at once, or patch by patch with Paint and Swap. Free, with Undo.
FreeCompare two colorways of a quilt side by side
Try a quilt in two sets of fabric: make a copy, color it, and compare the two side by side in Quarter Inch, in color, in grays or blurred.
FreeCheck a quilt’s contrast: Value and Squint
Use Value to see a quilt in grays and Squint to blur it, so you can check light and dark before you buy fabric. Free in Quarter Inch, on every device.
FreePlan a quilt’s solid colors: Quarter Inch Solids
Quarter Inch Solids is our own card of 142 solid colors, each named and numbered. How to browse it, save colors and use them in a quilt.
FreeAdd your own fabrics
Put your own fabric into Quarter Inch: one photo, a shelf of photos at once, a whole charm pack in one photo, or a color you mix. Free, and true to size.
FreeTrack your fabric stash and what each quilt needs
Keep your fabric stash in Quarter Inch: how much of each you have, in yards or fat quarters, and what each quilt still needs you to buy. Free.
FreeSet one-way prints, pre-washing and fabric width
Set one-way prints, pre-washing, wide fabric and 108″ backing in Quarter Inch, so yardage and cuts are right. Where each setting lives, and what it changes.
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Changes and versions
Undo, History, earlier versions and other devices.
Undo changes or restore an earlier version of a quilt
Take back changes in Quarter Inch with Undo, go back many at once from History, and look at or restore how a quilt was on an earlier day.
FreeUse Quarter Inch on a computer, iPad and phone
Use Quarter Inch on a computer, an iPad and a phone: changes save as you go, work offline until you’re back, and what happens when two devices change a quilt.
FreeMake a copy of a quilt
Copy a quilt in Quarter Inch to try other fabrics, a new size or a different border, while the original stays exactly as it is.
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Cutting and printing
Yardage, the cutting chart, templates, foundations and the PDF.
How much fabric to buy for a quilt, and how it’s worked out
See how much fabric to buy for any quilt in Quarter Inch, set your width of fabric, and check every yard with How we worked this out. Free.
FreeTake a fabric shopping list and swatches to the shop
Take Quarter Inch’s Shopping list to the fabric shop: only what to buy, ticked as you go, with your stash taken off and swatches in true color. Free.
FreeRead a quilt cutting chart: strips, subcuts and units
Read Quarter Inch’s cutting chart: strips across the width, subcuts with piece letters, ticks saved with the quilt, and a choice of how units are cut.
QuilterPrint quilt templates at true size
Print quilt templates at true size in Quarter Inch: which pieces get one, how many to cut, reversed pieces, and pieces too long for one page.
QuilterPrint foundations for paper piecing
Foundation paper piece a block in Quarter Inch: choose Foundation piece, print its sections mirrored at true size, and cut pieces large in the chart.
QuilterPrint English paper piecing papers and templates
Print hexagon papers and the fabric template for English paper piecing in Quarter Inch: how many papers, strips per fabric, and one page to start.
QuilterFollow a quilt’s sewing steps, block by block
Sew a quilt step by step with Quarter Inch’s How to sew: each block’s steps with diagrams, ticks saved on every device, and a one-step sewing table.
QuilterCut fabric one cut at a time: the cutting table
Cut at the mat with Quarter Inch’s cutting table: one cut at a time in big type, Tick it off, Undo, and the screen kept awake on an iPad or phone.
QuilterPrint your quilt
Print a quilt from Quarter Inch: choose the parts, Letter or A4, color or black and white, then print at Actual size and check the 1″ test square.
QuilterFix a print that’s the wrong size: the 1″ test square
Check a Quarter Inch print with its 1″ test square, and fix it when it measures small: Scale at 100%, the right paper, and a test page to try again.
QuilterTape together a template printed on several pages
Join a quilt template printed across several pages: print at Actual size, lay each part over the ½″ overlap, match the 1A and 1B marks, tape, then cut.
QuilterPrinting from an iPad or a phone
Print a Quarter Inch quilt from an iPad or a phone: make the PDF on the device, share it to AirPrint or a printer’s app, keep 100%, check the square.
QuilterA number looks wrong? What to check, and how to tell us
A yardage or cut size in Quarter Inch looks wrong? Check width of fabric, the spare, rounding and how units are cut, then send it to us from the chart.
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Making it
Ticking off cuts and sewing steps as you go.
Tick off cuts and sewing steps as you go
Tick off each cut and sewing step in Quarter Inch, at the mat on an iPad or phone, and pick up where you left off on any device, days later.
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Quilting
Planning how the quilt is quilted, stencils and longarm files.
Plan a quilt’s quilting: in the ditch, meander, edge to edge
Plan a quilt’s quilting in Quarter Inch: in the ditch, outline, cross-hatch, meander or edge to edge, area by area, with thread and spacing checked. Free.
FreeAdd quilting stencils and import a DXF or QLI file
Add a quilting stencil to a border or block in Quarter Inch, change the stencils from an EQ8 quilt, and import a DXF or QLI longarm design file.
FreePrint for your longarm quilter
Print a hand-over page for your longarm quilter from Quarter Inch: quilt top, backing and batting sizes, quilting and thread, plus stencils at true size.
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Help
What Help does, what it never does, and how to turn it off.
What Quarter Inch’s AI Help does, and what it sees
What Quarter Inch’s Help does and never does, what an AI model is sent, how long we keep it, training, and the switches that turn it off.
Design a quilt by describing it in your own words
Tell Quarter Inch’s Help the quilt you’d like in your own words: check its plan, pick a block, watch it build, and keep the draft only if you like it.
Change a quilt in plain words: Ask Help and Just tell it
Change a quilt in plain words: point at squares and Ask Help, hand it a job, make one exact change with Just tell it, or check it with Check my quilt.
Turn Help off, and what it remembers
Hide Quarter Inch’s Help everywhere with one switch, see and forget what Help has noticed, and know your quilts never train AI.
Pattern designer
Making, testing and selling a pattern.
Make a pattern from your quilt
Turn on Pattern designer, then turn any quilt into a pattern with your name, logo and words, every size worked out exactly. Set it up yourself or with Help.
QuilterAdd sizes and colorways to a quilt pattern
Give a pattern up to five exact sizes, name its fabrics and what to buy, add a second colorway, and check it reads on a black-and-white printer.
QuilterSend a pattern to testers and publish errata
Send pattern testers a named copy of the draft, publish versions that never change, and get errata drafted from the numbers when the quilt changes.
QuilterExport a quilt pattern PDF for sale
Export a published pattern as Letter and A4 PDFs and shop cover pictures, checked for page numbers, a true 1″ test square and no Quarter Inch name.
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Account and your files
Billing, exporting everything and leaving.
Find receipts, change your card or cancel Quilter
Find your Quarter Inch receipts, change your card or billing period, cancel Quilter, and refund your first payment within 30 days.
QuilterDownload all your quilts: Export everything and .qi
Download every quilt from Quarter Inch in one zip: our open .qi format, your original EQ files and a drawing of each quilt. Free, any time, on any plan.
Delete your account
Delete your Quarter Inch account from Account and settings. We wait 30 days first, so you can export your quilts or change your mind.
Can’t find it? Write to us. A person reads every message, and what you ask helps us choose the next guide.
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.
- Free to start
- iPad, Mac, Windows and phone