Using Quarter Inch · Cutting and printing
A number looks wrong? What to check, and how to tell us
Every number in the cutting chart is worked out, never typed. If one looks wrong, check the settings that change it, then tell us: it comes straight to us.
The short answer
Every number in the cutting chart is worked out, never typed, and a few settings change it. Check Width of fabric, the spare strip, and How units are cut first. Still wrong? On the Cutting chart, choose A number looks wrong?, pick the line and send it.
Check these first
Most numbers that look wrong are a setting, or a sum done a different way. Each takes a moment to check.
- Width of fabric. On Yardage, Width of fabric is what’s usable once the selvages are off. A narrower width means more strips, and more yardage.
- The spare. With Add a strip to each on, every fabric gets one more strip, its widest, at least 3″. Turn it off to see the exact amount.
- Rounding. Yardage is rounded up to the next ⅛ yd (4½″), never down. How we worked this out shows the sum for any fabric.
- How units are cut. Flying geese, half- and quarter-square triangles can be cut more than one way, and each uses a different size and amount. See How units are cut beside the chart.
- Pre-washing. If I pre-wash my fabric. is on, the amounts allow for what washing takes off, so they’re a little more.
- Pieces cut large. A block you foundation piece is cut as rectangles a little large, on purpose. Foundations.
- Sizes that aren’t on the ruler. Quarter Inch never rounds a piece you sew. A size that isn’t a whole ⅛″ becomes a template instead.
- A quilt from EQ8. A thin last border may be the binding: the chart asks once, This looks like binding, and your answer changes the cuts.
Tell us
Still wrong? We want to know. It goes straight to the team as a bug to fix.
On the Cutting chart, choose A number looks wrong? It’s beside the pieces on a computer, and under the fabrics on an iPad or a phone.
Under Which number?, pick the line, as the chart says it: “Navy: 4 strips 3⅞″ × WOF”, for example. Not listed? Choose Somewhere else on the chart.
Under What should it be? (optional), say what you expected, if you know.
Choose Send to Quarter Inch. The quilt goes with it, so we can check the math, and we’ll put it right.
Help never makes numbers: every number in the chart is worked out by Quarter Inch’s cutting engine. So a report goes to people, not to Help, whether Help is on or off. To check a yardage with a pencil first, see how much fabric you need for a quilt.
Yardage, with How we worked this out, is free on every plan. Quilter adds the chart: $9 a month or $89 a year.
If it doesn’t send
- It says it didn’t send. Check your connection, then choose Send to Quarter Inch again.
- Something else is wrong, not a number. Write to us instead.
Checked against the app on
Questions
Short answers.
Something else? A real person replies.
hello@quarterinch.app
Why is the yardage more than another pattern says?
Quarter Inch adds one spare strip per fabric and rounds up to the next ⅛ yd. Turn off Add a strip to each to see the exact amount.
Who reads a report?
Our team. It goes with the quilt as a bug to fix, whether or not Help is on.
Does Help work out the numbers?
No. Help never makes numbers; the cutting engine works out every one.