Share a block, or take a copy of one

A block you drew can be shared with other quilters. They find it under Shared blocks and take a copy of their own. Your name isn’t shown, and a copy someone has taken stays theirs, even if you stop sharing.

Share one of your blocks

1. Open Blocks, then My blocks, and open the block.

2. Under Share with other quilters, choose Share it.

3. It says Shared. See it as they do opens the page other quilters see.

Changed the block since? Share this version shares the newest one. Stop sharing takes it down; copies already taken stay with the people who took them.

When a block can’t be shared

The page says why, in place of the button:

• It isn’t finished yet. A block is shared as it was last saved with Done.
• It has no name yet.
• It’s a copy of a block from an EQ file: it may be someone else’s design.
• Its name credits a designer, so it’s their design.
• It has the same seams as a block already in the library.

Take a copy of a shared block

1. On Blocks, under Shared by quilters, choose See shared blocks. Search them by name, as you would the library.

2. Open a block. Its page has its pieces, how hard it is and the sizes it cuts on the ruler, and says Shared by a quilter.

3. Choose Take a copy. The copy is in your My blocks, yours to use in a quilt or change in the block editor.

To start from a library block instead, open it and choose Edit a copy: see Draw your own block.

Report a shared block

If a shared block is someone else’s design, has the wrong name, or isn’t a quilt block, choose Report this block, say what’s wrong, and Send the report. We look at every report.

On an iPad or a phone

If it doesn’t look right

• There’s no Share it button. The block can’t be shared yet, and the page says why: finish it and give it a name.
• Your shared block shows an older version. Choose Share this version.
• A copy you took changed. It won’t: a copy is yours. Changes the quilter makes to theirs never reach it.

Checked against the app on October 26, 2026