Change an EQ8 or EQ7 quilt: blocks, colors and size

Start changing a quilt from EQ

1. Open the quilt from your library.

2. Choose Change this quilt at the top.

3. The first time, a box lists what You can change in this quilt and what Stays as EQ made it, for now. Read it, then choose Start changing. It’s asked once for each quilt.

   

4. The quilt opens in the designer. Place and replace blocks, paint, try a palette, rename it, and change its layout where it can be done exactly. Every change is saved as you go.

Your EQ file is safe

• You change the quilt itself, in Quarter Inch. Your EQ file on your computer is never changed.
• Before your first change, Quarter Inch keeps the quilt just as it came from EQ in Earlier versions, under History, named “As it came from EQ8” (or EQ7). You can always go back to it.
• Undo takes back each change, one at a time.

Why some parts have a padlock

A padlock marks what stays as EQ made it, with the reason beside it. These are the parts we can’t yet change exactly, so we leave them as EQ drew them rather than risk getting them wrong. For example:

• appliqué that sits where EQ put it, and the blocks under it keep their size;
• a pieced border, which is redrawn at new lengths only where its pieces fit whole;
• the curves of a curved block the block editor can’t draw yet;
• a layout whose borders don’t add up to its size, or a custom set.

A block from EQ has its own menu: Paint this block, and Edit a copy of its shape, which opens a copy in the block editor and leaves EQ’s block as it was. If the copy can’t be made, the menu says why.

Changing its size and layout

When the layout can be changed exactly, the right panel shows Change the layout where the padlock would be. It offers Resize to a throw, twin, queen or king, blocks across and down, the block size, sashing, and plain borders. New blocks continue the quilt’s pattern.

If it doesn’t look right

• Get Quilter and change it appears. You’re already designing 3 quilts on the Free plan. Get Quilter, delete a quilt you’ve finished, or choose Just view it.
• The layout has a padlock. Its reason is beside it. You can still change its blocks, colors and name.
• You’d like EQ’s version back. Open History and choose the version as it came from EQ in Earlier versions.
• Our reader improved after you changed it. Quarter Inch offers to read it again and keep your changes. See Update ready.

Checked against the app on October 26, 2026