Start a quilt from a precut you have

Have a charm pack, a layer cake, a jelly roll or a bundle of fat quarters? Start from it, and Quarter Inch shows you the quilts it makes, how many of its pieces each one uses and how many are left over. The prints come from your pack; the background and border come off the bolt, and the yardage says how much to buy.

Start from your precut

1. Choose New quilt, then Guided. Under the bed sizes, open More ways to start and choose From a precut you have.

2. Under Which precut?, choose what you have:

   • Charm pack, 5″ squares
   • Layer cake, 10″ squares
   • Jelly roll, 2½″ strips
   • Honey bun, 1½″ strips
   • Fat quarters, 18″ × 21″
   • Fat eighths, 9″ × 21″
   • Mini charms, 2½″ squares

3. Set How many packs? (for fat quarters and fat eighths, How many bundles?), and how many pieces are in each. It starts at the usual count. Count yours: some packs have fewer, or two of one print. Then choose Next: what it makes.

4. Under What it makes, each quilt shows its finished size and how much of your pack it uses. Choose one, and a Block size if it offers more than one: each size says how many pieces one square or strip gives. Then choose Next: fabrics and name.

5. Under Fabrics and name, the prints are marked From the pack. We don’t know your prints, so choose a set of colors like your pack’s for the picture; the cutting is the same whatever they are. Choose Change beside a fabric off the bolt to pick other colors, give the quilt a name, and choose Make my quilt.

When you start from a pack saved in your stash, its own prints are dealt into the quilt, one to a block, instead of stand-in colors. See Your stash.

If the pack isn’t enough

Quarter Inch never stretches a pack quietly. What it makes lists the quilts your pieces really make. When a design needs more than you have, a note says how many more, so you know whether a second pack would do it: add one with Back and How many packs? If nothing fits, choose One more pack, or Start from a bed size instead.

For the sums by hand, see Charm pack quilts, Layer cake quilts and Jelly roll quilts.

A precut in any quilt

You don’t have to start from a precut to use one. On any quilt’s Yardage, each fabric has a Comes from: off the bolt, or a pack. Choose it to say a fabric comes from your charm pack or fat quarters, and the yardage and cutting chart work from those pieces instead.

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If it doesn’t look right

• Your pack has a different count. Change the number in each to what’s in yours. A pack can have from 1 to 200 pieces.
• The colors aren’t your prints. They stand in for them. The cutting, and how many pieces you need, don’t change.
• You wanted a bed size after all. Under What are you starting from?, choose A bed size.

Checked against the app on October 26, 2026