Stay in your creative zone as you figure and cut yardage

Start with a quilt design.
Quilt designs come from many sources — historic quilts, found patterns, purchased quilt kits, or an inspired design of your own creation. Whatever your starting point,  QuiltSandwich  supports much of the preparation effort for quilt projects.
Enter pieces and fabrics.
The cutting diagrams let you see how to fold and cut the fabric for each piece, so you can make adjustments before cutting. Next, use the Color Mix assessment tool to confirm your fabric selections will create a quilt with the color impression you desire. 

Adjust settings if this project requires unusual allowances. Use the Yardage Calculator to add the finished size and fabric for each piece. More than just quilt top pieces, the Yardage Calculator also handles binding, backing and batting.
Cut fabric with confidence.
Cut knowing the fabric choices are right and the yardage for pieces, binding, backing and batting will be --
  • Enough to cut and sew using your favorite methods.
  • Enough to create the quilt in this kit.
  • Enough after tweaking this pattern to a larger or smaller size.
  • Enough.

Just to be clear — The QuiltSandwich app is not a quilt designer. It does not provide block designs.
There are marvelous resources available to quilters to design quilts and blocks — from fancy quilt design programs, to specialty graph paper designers like QuiltPaper, to books, to treasured antique quilts.

QuiltSandwich is unique notions

Calculators you can trust

Yardage Calculator figures yardage from finished sizes using your allowances. A cutting diagram shows exactly how to fold and cut.
Triangle Calculators for Half Rectangle, Half Square & Corner, and Quarter Square & Side Setting. Enter finished size and seam allowance to get dimensions for cut size.
SIZE IT! helps you resize projects. Enter an original side length and the desired length to get the percentage size change.


Help with fabric selection and purchase

Fabric Stash lets you take your fabrics with you. Just snap a picture to add, compare, and manage swatches.
Color Mix displays the proportion of quilt top fabrics including pieces, borders, and binding. At last, a way to check a quilt top's color balance before fabric purchase (or cutting)!
Color Mix grey scale option shows the value of the fabrics — light to dark.


Fabric lists by project

Fabric Checklist is a comprehensive list of project fabrics. Updates here instantly update other lists.
Shopping List of 'short' fabrics makes it easier to see what you need. Updates here instantly update other lists.
Fabric List PDF groups together pieces by fabric. This list can be especially helpful at the cutting table!


Project organization and planning

Journal keeps pictures and notes about your quilt project long after you've given a quilt away.
Pattern PDF makes it easy to view or print all key project documents: Journal, Fabric List, and Cutting Diagrams.
Pixel Quilt how-to-guide has instructions on how to create a Pixel Quilt using the apps QuiltSandwich and Color Hints Mosaic.


Reference tables

Conversions reference tables — yards to inches, decimal equivalents, inches to millimeters, and yards to meters.
Mattress, Pillow, and Batting reference tables with common sizes.

Standard Features

  • The Yardage Calculator figures yardage using the Finished Size and Number of Pieces for Rectangles or Squares, Triangles (Half-Square, Quarter-Square, Corner, Side Setting, Half Rectangle), Sashing, Borders (Horizontal, Vertical or Mitered), Binding (Straight-Grain or Bias), Backing (Best Fit, Vertical, or Horizontal), and Batting (Best Fit, Vertical, or Horizontal). Fabric needed is given in Yardage or number of Fat Quarters. Settings for Seam, Shrinkage, Selvage and Cut Edge allowances can be adjusted. There are two cutting diagram layout settings, find least yardage or force layout to piece width on crosswise grain.
  • Yardage is calculated for each unique piece shape. (When a fabric is used by multiple pieces, it may be possible to purchase less fabric by considering the scrap shown in the individual cutting diagrams.)
  • Fabric images are added from device camera. Fabrics can be added immediately to a project or added to the Fabric Stash and later assigned to projects. Fabric images can be compared side-by-side by swiping image tiles.
  • Layouts defined in QuiltSize app can be exported to QuiltSandwich. As part of the import all the pieces, including binding, backing and batting are added. Replace the placeholder blocks with the block pieces to complete yardage requirements.
  • Pixel Quilts designed in ColorHints Mosaic app can be exported to QuiltSandwich. As part of import the piece size is set so that QuiltSandwich can create a Journal with the pattern. Pieces are listed with placeholder color tiles and yardage for fabric.
  • Share and Archive tool offers two features. One, a way to Share a QuiltSandwich pattern to another QuiltSandwich user or share to another device using email. Two, a way to Archive a project off the iPhone or iPad and save it to iTunes.
  • App Images manager tool deletes images imported into QuiltSandwich that are no longer needed in the app. It does NOT affect images in the Photo Library.
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