Plan a quilt’s solid colors: Quarter Inch Solids

Quarter Inch Solids is our own color card: 142 solid colors, each with a name and a number, like Navy, QS-110. It’s what new quilts and the starter palettes are colored with, and it’s free to browse and use.

Browse the card

1. Choose Fabrics in the menu, then Color cards.

2. The colors are in groups: Reds and pinks, Oranges and browns, Yellows, Greens, Blues, Purples and Neutrals. Each group runs light to dark.

3. Choose a color to see it large, with its name and number. To find one, type its name or number in the search box at the top, for example “navy” or “QS-110”.

Save the colors you like

Choose Save to My fabrics beside a color. Saved colors are listed in My fabrics, and they come first when you choose a fabric for a quilt. Choose it again to take it out.

If you’ve bought a solid and want to keep how much you have, add it as A card color you own. See Your stash.

Use a color in a quilt

In the designer, choose Change beside a fabric. The picker has Quarter Inch Solids and My fabrics along the top. Pick a color and choose Use this fabric. Color a quilt has the steps.

Nearest matches

Wherever Quarter Inch shows a color that isn’t on the card, it names the nearest card color beside it, with a word for how close: “Very close”, “Close”, “Nearest we have”. You’ll see this:

• beside the solids in a quilt from EQ8 or EQ7;
• beside a color of your own, when you add one;
• on the Shopping list and the printed chart, so a shop can find something like it.

On an iPad or a phone

If it doesn’t look right

• A color looks different on another screen. Screens vary, and so do printers. Compare with real fabric in daylight.
• A search finds nothing. Search by a color’s name, or its number as it’s printed on the card.

Checked against the app on October 26, 2026