FourPatch lays out your top, drafts blocks, turns a photo into a piecing chart, and works out every cut and every yard — on the phone in your pocket or the laptop on your sewing table.
No download. No account to start. Designs save in your browser until you want them in the cloud.
Every block in the library is live geometry: recolor it, rotate it, redraw it, or use it as the seed for your own.
Draft a block from squares, half-square and half-rectangle triangles, quarter-squares, curves and eight-wedge kaleidoscopes — or start from one of 48 classics. Come back next month and change a single patch: the layout, the yardage and the cutting list follow.
Try it: pick a fabric, then click patches on the Card Trick.
Point your phone at a face, a barn, a dog, a sunset. FourPatch reduces it to the fabrics you choose and, instead of the usual blocky pixel quilt, places half-square triangles along every diagonal edge so the picture reads from across the room. Or build the same photo out of hexagons, tumblers, 60° triangles or clamshells — full-size templates included.
The photo never leaves your device — it's processed in the browser.
Seam allowances are added the way you cut them: ½″ on squares, ⅞″ on half-square triangles, 1¼″ on quarter-squares, setting triangles at 1.414× + 1¼″. Strips are packed across the width of fabric, long pieces are pieced, and yardage rounds up to the eighth.
This table is computed live from the quilt in the hero above — hit “Surprise me” and watch it change.
Name your fabrics, photograph the real bolt and see its print on the block, pull palettes from a photo, or generate harmonies from one color. Then press V: the value view drops the quilt to grayscale so you can tell whether the design will read before you cut anything.
Stand at the cutting counter with the yardage in your hand. Sketch a layout on the tablet at retreat. Print the pattern from the laptop. One design, every screen, and nothing to install.
Pick a size, a layout and a block — or press Surprise me until something makes you sit up. Paint fabrics straight onto the quilt.
Open the Pattern tab: yardage per fabric, the cutting list with seam allowances, backing and binding, block diagrams. Print it or save a PDF.
Cut from the list, piece from the diagrams, quilt, bind. Share the design link so the guild can make their own colorway.
Everything you need to design and cut a quilt.
$60 for the year — six months free.Billed monthly, cancel any time. About a fat quarter a month.
30-day money-back, no questions. Cancel any time.
Quilt shops: Pro already prints pick lists with your bolt names, widths, SKUs and prices, and batches a whole kit run at once. Publish your inventory as a fabric library and your customers can design with it before they walk in — write to us and we will help you set it up.
| FourPatch | Electric Quilt 8 | PreQuilt | Quiltography | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free · $10/mo · $60/yr | $239.95 once | Free tier (no saving) · ~$50–$100/yr | Paid iPad app |
| Runs on | Any browser — phone, tablet, laptop | Windows / Mac desktop only | Browser | iPad only |
| Draft your own blocks | Yes, incl. curves | Yes | Recolor existing patterns only | Yes, but can't edit after saving |
| Photo → quilt | Yes, with triangle smoothing | Via separate tools | No | Separate photoQuilt app |
| Yardage + cutting list | Yes, to the ⅛″ | Yes | Yardage only | Not offered |
| Borders | Unlimited | Unlimited | Pattern-dependent | One |
| On-point layout | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| Start without an account | Yes | Install + license | Yes, but no saving | App Store purchase |
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Thirty-five traditional blocks and the charts quilters keep re-Googling — all computed by the same engine that runs the studio, so the numbers match what you'll actually cut.
Every block with a live diagram, exact cutting sizes for 6″ to 15″ finished blocks, and the yardage for a whole quilt of them.
Browse the library →Baby to king, with batting, backing and binding.
Cut sizes for every finished half-square triangle.
Side and corner sizes for on-point quilts.
Why area-based calculators get it wrong.
No-waste four-at-a-time cut sizes.
What makes a photo quilt actually readable.
Straight, on point, hexagons, tumblers, clamshells.
No. The photo is turned into a quilt entirely on your device, in the browser. Nothing is sent to a server unless you choose to save the finished design to your cloud account.
Not to design. Everything works and saves in your browser without signing in. An account (free) lets you keep designs in the cloud and open them on another device; Pro removes the limits.
Once the studio has loaded, yes — design, math and printing all run locally. Cloud sync catches up when you're back online.
Yes. Your designs are yours. Pro adds your name and logo to the printed pattern.
Not yet. Block and layout import from EQ8's project files is on the roadmap; today you can rebuild most blocks in minutes from the library and the editor.
It's computed from the actual pieces in your design with standard cutting allowances, packed across the usable width of fabric you set (40″ by default), plus the waste percentage you choose. It's the same arithmetic you'd do by hand — just done for every piece, every time you change something.
Write within 30 days and we refund it, no questions. Cancel whenever you like — your designs stay yours and stay downloadable.
Yes, if they have a FourPatch shop page. Load their published fabric library, design with the bolts they actually stock, then File ▸ Send to a quilt shop. They get the design itself — not a screenshot — plus your shopping list, and they can open it, check it against their own bolt widths and message you back with a price. It costs nothing and it isn't an order; it's a conversation with someone who can now see exactly what you want. Browse the shops.
Publish your stock once — bolt names, widths, prices, SKUs — and customers can design against your actual inventory from home. The yardage, the cutting list and the cost all come out in fabric you have on the shelf, and they arrive at the counter with a list carrying your bolt numbers. You get a public shop page, your libraries in the gallery, and an inbox of orders with the real design attached to each. We sell no fabric, take no cut of your orders and point your customers nowhere else. It's part of Pro.
No. Sharing designs, palettes and fabric libraries is free, and opening anything anyone has shared is free — no account needed at your end. What Pro pays for is volume: 500 designs in the cloud instead of 3, 200 palettes instead of 10, 20 published libraries instead of 1.
Three at once — a phone, a tablet and a laptop, say. Signing in on a fourth signs out the oldest. There are no separate staff seats to manage; if you need genuinely separate accounts, take a second subscription.
Because keeping your designs safe costs something every month, forever, and a one-off payment cannot honestly cover that. At any price a quilter would actually pay, the promise outruns the payment — and that ends either in a quiet betrayal or in a company that can't afford the people who believed in it first. We'd rather charge a fair price we can hold. Pay for the year and it's $5 a month, which is about a fat quarter.
Over four years, yes — EQ8 is $239.95 once and FourPatch is $60 a year. That's a fair thing to weigh. What you get for the difference: it runs on the phone in your pocket at the fabric counter and not just one Windows machine, the cutting list and yardage are free forever whether or not you subscribe, and it keeps getting new blocks and settings without a paid version bump. If a one-time desktop purchase suits you better, buy it — we'd rather say that than pretend otherwise.