Quilting guides
Short, practical guides for designing and sewing your quilts, with the same rules Quiltkit uses for its calculations.
- How to calculate fabric yardage for a quilt A step-by-step method to work out how much fabric a quilt needs: cut sizes, pieces per strip, number of strips and rounding, with a worked example.
- Seam allowance and 1:1 templates: cutting at the right size Why quilters use a ¼ in seam allowance, how to read a template’s cutting and sewing lines, and how to print 1:1 templates at exactly the right scale.
- How to design a quilt on iPad Plan a quilt on iPad or in the browser: choose a size and layout, place traditional blocks, audition your own fabrics from photos, then check the yardage.
- How to make and sell a PDF quilt pattern What a good PDF quilt pattern contains, how to offer several sizes, test it before selling, and what to know about traditional blocks and fabric prints.