Using Quarter Inch · Color and fabrics
Track your fabric stash and what each quilt needs
Give your fabrics an amount, in your own words, and each quilt’s yardage shows what you have and what’s left to buy.
The short answer
A fabric is in your stash once it has an amount. Open it in My fabrics, choose Yards, Fat quarters or another kind under How much do you have?, and save. A quilt’s Yardage then shows need, have and what’s left to buy.
Your stash is the fabric you own and roughly how much of it. It isn’t a separate list: a fabric in My fabrics is in your stash once it has an amount. A fabric with no amount is still yours to design with.
See your stash
Go to Fabrics, My fabrics, and choose the In your stash filter. Your fabrics are on shelves by color, with your totals above them in your own units: yards, fat quarters, fat eighths, precut packs and scraps. Choose Newest first to see the latest you added instead.
Say how much you have
Choose a fabric. It opens with its picture, its name and where it’s used.
Under How much do you have?, choose how you’d say it: Yards, Fat quarters, Fat eighths, A precut pack, Charms or squares or Scraps.
Set the amount. For yards there are quick amounts to tap; near enough is fine. A precut pack says how many pieces are left.
Choose Save. To take a fabric out of your stash, open it and choose Take it out of your stash.
Scraps are kept and shown, but never counted against a quilt. To add a lot of fabric quickly, see Add a shelf of photos.
Use it on a quilt
Once a fabric in a quilt is one from your stash, Quarter Inch uses what you have:
- Yardage shows what the quilt needs, what you have, and what’s left to buy. Enough, but no spare means you have enough for the cuts, but not the extra for shrinking and straightening. Switch off Take what I have off to see the full amounts.
- On a quilt colored from the card, Use one of yours? lists the nearest fabrics in your stash, with what each has for that fabric’s need. Choosing one changes the fabric in the quilt.
- In the designer’s fabric picker, under My fabrics, switch on Only fabrics I have. Each fabric shows its amount, and a filter shows only those with enough. A fabric that would run short says so in words; it never stops you.
- The Shopping list lists only what’s still to buy. The Shopping list has more.
A fabric planned for two quilts shows both. Nothing is set aside or taken off until you’ve cut a quilt.
After you’ve cut a quilt
On the quilt’s Cutting page, choose I’ve cut this quilt…. It’s also offered once every cut is ticked.
Each fabric shows what you had, what the cuts took and what’s left. Change any line, then save.
Your stash says it’s up to date, with Undo. Only the stash changes, never the quilt.
On an iPad or a phone
On an iPad the steps are the same as on a computer.
Amounts, the stash shelves, have and need on Yardage, the picker’s filter, the Shopping list and using up are on every plan. The cutting chart and printing need Quilter.
If it doesn’t look right
- A fabric isn’t in my stash. It has no amount yet. Open it and give it one.
- Yardage doesn’t see a fabric I have. A quilt’s fabric is matched to your stash only when it’s that same fabric: your photo, your color, or the same card number. Choose Use one of yours? to swap it for yours. A print from an EQ file counts once you save it to My fabrics.
- A precut says it can’t be checked. Whether a pack covers a quilt can’t be worked out yet. It shows what you have, with the yardage.
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Questions
Short answers.
Something else? A real person replies.
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Is the stash a separate list?
No. It’s My fabrics with amounts. Filter to In your stash to see only the fabric you have.
Can I keep fat quarters as fat quarters?
Yes. Amounts stay as you say them: yards, fat quarters, fat eighths, a precut pack or scraps.
Does cutting a quilt take fabric off my stash?
Only when you say so. Choose I’ve cut this quilt…, check each line, and save. Undo puts it back.
Is the stash free?
Yes, on every plan, with have and need on Yardage and the Shopping list.