Your fun quilt design book.
The foundation — grids of equal squares in two fabrics. The only thing that changes between them is how many squares. Tap a block to explore its quilts.
Strips, triangles, and shaped picture blocks. Here rotation becomes a design tool: the same block, turned different ways across the quilt, produces wildly different results. The half-square triangle is the keystone — most star blocks are built from it.
Choose your project dimensions.
All sizes in this section are finished sizes. Choose a standard quilt size as a starting point or type your own width and height, then add the block size. Press Apply Quilt Size. The grid will automatically adjust to match your quilt size and block size. Hit Go to Grid to start designing.
Design one block at a time.
This is where a 12 inch block can be divided into smaller pieces, then colored before it gets placed into the quilt layout later.
Use this as a blank pattern sketch grid.
Choose the number of squares, then click colors into the grid exactly as you see the quilt pattern.
A completed 20×20 disappearing nine-patch quilt example built from the partial color-code rows and filled into a finished repeating layout.
Nine squares that hide a famous trick: line up the corners and chains appear.