Find a block in the library

Blocks has the library: 524 traditional blocks, each drafted by us so every size is exact. You can find a block by name (any of the names it goes by), by its shape, or by how it looks and how hard it is to sew. Browsing and searching are free, with no account limits.

Search by name

1. Open Blocks and type in Search blocks by name. Results come as you type.

2. A block that goes by several names is found by any of them, and its card says which one matched: “Also called …”. Type a name a little wrong and Quarter Inch shows its closest guess, and says it guessed; Search for your exact words is beside it.

3. Choose a block to open its page.

If we know a block but haven’t drafted it yet, the search says so, and why. Choose Ask for this block: the blocks quilters ask for most are drafted first, and appear under New blocks when they’re ready. We don’t email about it.

Browse by shape and family

Under Browse by shape, the library is in five: Square grid, Eight-point, Sixty-degree, Wedges and Curved seams. The shape decides where a block can go: square blocks in square layouts, Sixty-degree blocks in hexagon layouts. Inside Square grid, the families are chips: Four-patch, Nine-patch, Five-patch, Seven-patch and Logs and strips. All blocks shows the whole library.

Blocks come 24 at a time. Show 24 more adds the next ones, and Back brings you to the same place.

Filter by how it looks and sews

Beside the blocks, filters narrow them down. Each option says how many blocks it would leave.

• Looks like: Stars, Pinwheels, Checks and chains or Baskets.
• How hard: First quilt, Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced.
• How it’s sewn: Rotary cut, on the ruler, Templates, English paper piecing, Set-in seams or Curved seams.
• Pieces: up to 12, 30 or 60 pieces, or Any number.
• Cuts on the ruler at: block sizes where every piece lands on the ⅛″ marks of a rotary ruler, so nothing needs a template.

The filters you’ve chosen show as chips: tap one to take it off, or Clear all.

A block’s page

A block’s page has what you’d decide by, all worked out from the block itself:

• How hard, and why; Pieces and Shapes; the Sizes that cut easily; and, where it can be paper pieced, its foundation sections.
• Blocks like it, most alike first, with See all like it, and Easier blocks if you’d like something simpler.
• Use in a new quilt starts a quilt with it, Add to a quilt puts it in one you’re designing, and Edit a copy opens a copy in the block editor.

The heart saves a block to Yours, with your saved blocks, your collections and the blocks in your quilts. Add to a collection groups blocks for a sampler or a swap. If you’ve opened EQ files, From EQ files shows the blocks in their Sketchbooks, marked where they have the same seams as a library block.

Find a block from inside a quilt

In the designer, Add a block opens the same library over your quilt, with the quilt’s own blocks and your saved ones first. Fits this quilt is on, so you see the blocks that cut on the ruler at this quilt’s size; the foot says how many it holds back. A block of another shape (a hexagon block in a quilt of squares, say) says why it can’t go in.

On an iPad or a phone

If it doesn’t look right

• Your block’s name finds nothing. Try another name it goes by, or a word in it (“star”). If we know it but haven’t drafted it, ask for it.
• A block isn’t in Add a block. Fits this quilt holds back blocks that need templates at this size. Type its name: search shows every match.
• You want a block that isn’t there. Draw it: Draw your own block.

Checked against the app on October 26, 2026