Using Quarter Inch · Getting started
What’s free in Quarter Inch, and what Quilter adds
Quarter Inch has two plans. Free opens, imports, views and exports every quilt, and designs a few at a time. Quilter is for cutting and printing what you design.
The short answer
Free opens every EQ file, designs 3 quilts at once, and works out yardage. Quilter ($9 a month or $89 a year) adds the cutting chart, templates, true-size printing and no limit on quilts. Exporting is free on both.
What each plan includes
| What you can do | Free | Quilter |
|---|---|---|
| Open, import and view EQ8 and EQ7 files | Yes, every file | Yes |
| Design and change quilts | 3 quilts at once | No limit |
| Draw blocks, color with Paint and Swap | Yes | Yes |
| Yardage and the Shopping list | Yes | Yes |
| Cutting chart, templates, foundations, How to sew | No | Yes |
| Print at true size (one PDF) | No | Yes |
| Make and sell patterns | No | Yes |
| Export everything | Yes, always | Yes, always |
Quilter is $9 a month or $89 a year, in your own currency with tax included. The yearly price works out at two months free.
Founding members. While founding places last, the offer shows a founding member price instead: $6 a month or $59 a year, locked in while you stay. It ends if you cancel; come back later and it’s the price of the day.
What counts as one of your 3 quilts
On the Free plan you can design 3 quilts at once. The sidebar’s Free plan card shows how many you’re using.
- A quilt you make in Quarter Inch counts from the start, including a copy of a sample quilt.
- A quilt from an EQ file counts once you first change it. Opening, importing and viewing it never count.
- Deleting a quilt frees its place straight away. Putting it back from Recently deleted takes the place again.
With all 3 in use, New quilt asks you to choose: get Quilter, or make room by deleting a quilt you’ve finished with. Make it mine on a sample quilt and Put back in Recently deleted ask the same. In the library, each quilt you’re designing wears a pill such as “Designing · 2 of 3”.
Getting Quilter
Open Account and settings and choose Get Quilter under Your plan. You can also choose it from the sidebar’s plan card, or from any Quilter tool, such as the Cutting chart tab.
Choose Yearly or Monthly.
Choose the Continue button. It shows the price you chose. You pay on Stripe’s secure page, then come straight back to Quarter Inch.
If you stop paying
Nothing is ever deleted because a plan ends.
- You cancel. You keep Quilter to the end of the month or year you’ve paid for. After that, cutting charts and printing close.
- Your quilts. The 3 you changed most recently stay open to design. The rest become read-only: open, view and export them any time. To pick which 3 stay open, choose “Choose which 3” on the notice in your library.
- A payment fails. Quilter stays on for 14 days while we try again. Update your card in that time to keep it.
- Your ticks. Cuts and sewing steps you ticked off are kept, ready when you’re back.
Opening, importing, viewing and exporting every quilt are free for good, on every plan. Quilter adds cutting charts, true-size printing and no limit on quilts.
If it doesn’t look right
- A quilt says Read-only. Quilter ended and it isn’t one of the 3 kept open. Choose “Choose which 3”, delete a quilt you’ve finished, or get Quilter again.
- You paid with another email. Choose Paid with another email? on the account page. It opens an email to us.
- The cutting chart is offered, not shown. On the Free plan, the Cutting page opens on Yardage, which is free. The chart itself is part of Quilter.
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Questions
Short answers.
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Is Quarter Inch free?
Yes. The Free plan opens, imports, views and exports every quilt, designs 3 quilts at once and works out their yardage. No card is needed.
How much is Quilter?
$9 a month or $89 a year, in your own currency with tax included.
Does opening an EQ8 file count toward the limit?
No. An EQ quilt counts only once you change it. Opening, importing and viewing never count.
What happens to my quilts if I cancel Quilter?
Nothing is deleted. The 3 quilts you changed most recently stay open to design, the rest are read-only, and you can export them all any time.
Can I get a refund?
Your first payment can be refunded from your account for 30 days. Refunding it ends Quilter that day.