Using Quarter Inch · Starting a quilt
Make a quilt bigger or smaller
Add rows, change the block size, scale the whole design, or resize a quilt from EQ to a bed size. The new size is worked out to the ⅛″.
The short answer
Make a quilt bigger or smaller with more or fewer blocks, a new block size, or by scaling the whole design. Open the quilt and choose Change the layout, then change Across, Down or the Block size, or choose Make another size to scale the whole design to a width and height. On a quilt from EQ, choose a bed size under Resize to.
A quilt’s size is its blocks, how they’re set and its borders. To make it bigger or smaller you change one of those, and Quarter Inch works out the new finished size exactly, to the ⅛″. There are three ways, depending on the quilt.
When you start a quilt
In New quilt, How big? fits whole blocks to the bed size you choose. With the starting layout (12″ blocks side by side and one 4″ border), each bed size gives this:
| Bed size | About | Blocks | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crib | 36″ × 48″ | 2 × 3 | 32″ × 44″ |
| Throw | 60″ × 72″ | 4 × 5 | 56″ × 68″ |
| Twin | 66″ × 90″ | 5 × 7 | 68″ × 92″ |
| Queen | 90″ × 96″ | 7 × 8 | 92″ × 104″ |
| King | 108″ × 108″ | 8 × 8 | 104″ × 104″ |
Other block sizes, sashing or borders give other counts: the quilt’s facts update as you choose. For your own size, choose My own size. If it isn’t a whole number of blocks, Quarter Inch offers the nearest sizes it can make, or a border or block size that keeps yours. Standard quilt sizes has the mattress sizes these come from.
Add or take away blocks
Open the quilt in the designer and choose Change the layout.
Use Across and Down to add or take away rows and columns of blocks. Change the Block size (6″, 8″, 9″ and 12″ or Other), or widen a border.
The facts under the panel show the new finished size. Each change is one step for Undo.
The blocks you placed stay where they are. New squares get the quilt’s first block, so check the new row or column.
Make another size of the same design
On a quilt set side by side or with sashing, Make another size at the top of the Layout panel changes the size and keeps every square, its fabric and its place.
Choose Change the layout, then Make another size.
Type the Finished width, inches and Finished height, inches.
Under How should the design fit?, choose Scale the whole design (blocks, sashing and borders grow or shrink together, with even background margins if needed) or Keep the design size (everything stays as it is, with background added around it).
Choose Preview this size. You see the whole quilt at the new size, how big the units are now, the yardage, and whether any piece needs a template.
Choose Use this size, or Keep current size to leave it. Undo puts the original back.
A quilt from EQ
A quilt opened from EQ8 or EQ7 has Resize to in its layout: Throw, Twin, Queen or King.
Open the quilt and choose Change this quilt, then Change the layout.
Under Resize to, each bed size shows the size it would make and how: more blocks, and the outer border widened or a border added. Choose one.
Your EQ file itself never changes. When a pieced border EQ made can’t be redrawn at a size, that choice says so. More in Changing an EQ quilt.
On an iPad or a phone
Changing a quilt’s size is on the Free plan, for up to 3 quilts at a time. The cutting chart and printing at the new size need Quilter; the yardage is free.
If it doesn’t look right
- There’s no Make another size. It’s for quilts set side by side or with sashing. For others, change Across, Down, the block size or a border.
- The size isn’t the one you typed. Layouts use whole blocks. Make another size can hit your size exactly by scaling, or by adding background.
- Some pieces now need templates. At some sizes a block’s pieces don’t land on the ⅛″ marks of a ruler. The preview says so; try a nearby size.
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Questions
Short answers.
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How do I turn a throw into a queen?
Add blocks with Across and Down in Change the layout, or use Make another size to scale it. A quilt from EQ has Resize to, with Queen.
Will resizing lose the blocks I placed?
No. Blocks stay where they are, and Make another size keeps every square and fabric. Undo puts the old size back.
Can I type an exact size?
Yes. Make another size takes a finished width and height in eighths of an inch, and shows a preview first.