Tick off cuts and sewing steps as you go

Tick each cut on the cutting chart, and each step in How to sew, as you finish it. Your ticks are kept with the quilt, so you can stop for a week, pick up your phone instead of the iPad, and carry on from the same cut.

Cut at the cutting table

The cutting table is the chart made for the mat: one cut at a time, in big type you can read from an arm’s length away.

1. Open the quilt’s Cutting page and choose Cutting table. It opens at the fabric with the next cut to make.

2. The cut to make now is the biggest thing on the screen. Cut it, then tap Tick it off. The next cut takes its place.

   

3. Ticked the wrong one? Undo stays until your next tick. Any cut you’ve ticked also unticks with one tap.

4. When a fabric is all cut, fold it away and choose the next fabric. When Every piece is cut, it’s time to sew.

You can tick later cuts out of order too: they wait below the cut to make now.

Tick on the cutting chart

On the Cutting chart tab, tap anywhere on a row to tick it. The next cut is ringed. Beside the chart, Where you left off shows how far you’ve got, with Carry on at the cutting table.

Tick off sewing steps

1. On the How to sew tab, tick each step when you’ve sewn it for every block it’s for. Done steps fold to one line, and the next is ringed.

2. To sew a step at a time beside the machine, choose Sew at the sewing table (or Carry on at the sewing table), and tap Tick it off after each step.

Coming back to it

• Your library card shows how far you’ve got, like “Cutting · 10 of 22”, “Sewing · 4 of 12”, and “✓ Made” at the end.
• The quilt you ticked most recently is offered at the top of your library as Pick up where you left off.
• Ticks show on every device you sign in on. With no internet, they wait on the device and are saved when it’s back online.

If you change the quilt after cutting

Only the cuts the change affects lose their tick, and each says why. Make the border wider and only the border’s strips untick. Add a row of blocks and a cut that grew says how many more to make, for example “You’d cut 2. Cut 1 more strip.” A cut that shrank stays ticked, with its spare.

If a change in the designer takes a tick off, the designer says so at once, with Undo. Undo the change, and the ticks come back.

On paper, or starting again

• When you Print, choose under Your ticks: print the cuts you’ve ticked, so the paper starts where you are, or Every box empty, to make it again or give it away.
• To start again, choose Clear ticks… beside the chart. It asks first; Keep my ticks leaves them. Clearing can be undone too.

On an iPad or a phone

If it doesn’t look right

• Some ticks came off. The quilt changed and those cuts did too. Each says what changed and how many more to cut.
• Ticks aren’t on my other device. They may be waiting for a connection on the first one. Open it with internet and they’re saved.
• The screen keeps going dark. Set your device’s auto-lock to its longest while you cut.

Cutting from the chart for the first time? How to read a quilt cutting chart explains strips and subcuts.

Checked against the app on October 26, 2026