Make a pattern from your quilt

Turn on Pattern designer

Patterns live in their own place in the menu, called Patterns, which shows once you say you’re a pattern designer. A new account doesn’t see it.

1. Choose your name in the sidebar, then Account and settings.

2. Turn on Pattern designer (“Show Patterns, where your quilts become patterns to sell.”). Patterns appears in the sidebar from the next page you open.

3. Under it, fill in Your designer details: your Studio name, Your logo, the contact line for the last page and your usual license. Every new pattern starts with these, and each pattern can change them.

Make a pattern from a quilt

1. In Patterns, choose Make a pattern, then Choose a quilt. You can also open a quilt and choose Make a pattern beside Cutting chart and Print, or choose it from a quilt card’s menu in your library.

2. Under How to start, choose Set it up myself (the editor, with every tab empty but the numbers) or Make it with help.

   

3. Setting it up yourself: untick any sizes you don’t want. Each is the same quilt with whole blocks and the same borders, so it’s ✓ Exact. Then choose Make the pattern.

The pattern opens in its editor, with a page preview drawn as it will print, and seven tabs: Cover, Sizes, Fabric and supplies, Your words, Colourways, Pages and print and Versions. Every yardage, cut and sewing step in it is worked out by the same math as your cutting chart, in every size.

Not sure what you’ll get? On Patterns, See an example pattern opens a finished one to look through.

Make it with help

Help can fill in each tab for you, and shows you every change before it’s made.

1. Choose Make it with help. Say Who is it for?, which Sizes, and, if you’ve published patterns before, which one it should Sound like. Tick Suggest a second colourway or the drafts of your welcome and notes if you want them.

2. Choose See what Help will do. Help lists its plan. Choose Start, Change the plan, or Set it up myself after all.

3. Help works tab by tab: the sizes, fabric names and what to buy, notions, the colourway and your words. Each suggestion waits in a dashed gold card until you choose Use it; anything you change yourself is left as you have it.

4. What Help has done lists each change, each with Undo. Help stops at Versions: you check and publish.

Help never publishes, makes tester copies or exports, and never writes a number: numbers in its words are live, filled in by the pattern’s own math. How Help works says what it sees.

If it doesn’t look right

• There’s no Patterns in the menu. Turn on Pattern designer in Account and settings. Once you have a pattern, Patterns stays.
• A quilt is under Not yet. A pattern can’t be made from those quilts yet, and each one says why. An empty quilt is one.
• Only one size is offered. Some quilts, such as medallions, can only be made at their own size, so the pattern is made at that size.
• Make it with help is grayed out. This month’s help is used, or Help isn’t available just now. Set it up yourself; everything else works.

Selling patterns? Quarter Inch for pattern designers has the whole picture.

Checked against the app on October 26, 2026