TideStitch: Quilt Designer

Quilting's scariest moment is committing to a design you can only half-see in your head. TideStitch is where you see it for real first: lay out your quilt block by block and see the whole thing before you cut a single piece. No graph paper, no colored pencils, no math: TideStitch works out the finished and cut sizes, so you walk away with an accurate cut list instead of guesswork. DESIGN WITH REAL FABRIC • Photograph fabric from your stash and save named swatches • Audition fabric tiled at correct physical scale: a 6" print reads like 6" • Make Seamless lines up a stripe so it tiles without a jog • Tag and filter by color, material, print style, designer or line A LIBRARY OF TRADITIONAL BLOCKS • 50 blocks: Pinwheel, Sawtooth Star, Log Cabin, Nine-Patch, Churn Dash, Bear Paw, Storm at Sea and more • A blank HST grid: rotate any unit, or merge units into squares DESIGN YOUR OWN QUILT TOP • A blank grid you draw yourself: split cells with diagonals, merge patches into bigger shapes • Or a sampler: place library blocks of any size on the board and TideStitch fits the spacers • Or go radial: set an anchor, fan rays from it, and fill the wedges WHOLE-QUILT LAYOUTS • Build a quilt from a grid of blocks: repeat one, or mix different ones • Set it straight, on point or brick, setting triangles worked out for you • Color each block on its own for gradients and secondary patterns • Paint every border side, sashing strip, cornerstone and setting triangle its own fabric • Preview the quilting, loft and all: in the ditch, straight, wavy, echo, meander, draw your own, or import a longarm design file STUDIO: DESIGN YOUR OWN BLOCKS • A full block designer, a separate one-time unlock for iPad and Mac: split cells, slice strips, cut at any angle, merge pieces so they cut as one • Every piece is measured as you draw: true cut sizes before you save • Generate a Wonky Log Cabin, LeMoyne Star or Lone Star from a recipe and re-roll until you like it • Lone Stars up to 8 diamonds a point: color one point and the star follows; frame, split or sash the diamonds • Foundation paper piecing: sew order on screen, foundation printed mirror-reversed and numbered • Send a block to another quilter; your blocks sit in the picker beside the built-ins BARGELLO • Photograph a jelly roll, arrange the strips into a color ramp, and shape the wave • Start from a Single Diagonal, Classic or Mirrored Wave, then tap any column to widen, narrow or roll it • TideStitch does the tube math, prints the strip-set order, and lists every column cut COLORWAYS • Try one design in more than one set of fabrics without losing the first A PATTERN, NOT JUST A PICTURE • Make Pattern turns a design into a cut list, per-fabric yardage and numbered sewing steps, as a PDF • Yardage off the bolt, in fat quarters, or in precuts JELLY ROLL MODE • Photograph your strips, then pick Jelly Roll Race, Rail Fence, Strip Twist or Strip Patchwork • See how many of your strips each pattern needs, and "Shuffle" for scrappy layouts REAL QUILTING MATH • Everything is finished size: the space a piece takes in the quilt • Set your seam allowance (¼", scant, metric or custom) and see cut sizes • Eight free calculators under Resources: half-square triangles, flying geese, LeMoyne and Lone Star, binding, backing and batting, setting triangles, square-in-a-square • Quilting on a photo: loft a pantograph over a photo of a finished top BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU WORK • Designed for iPad and Mac, runs on iPhone: your phone is the camera, your iPad or Mac the worktable • Share a design with another quilter as one file; they open it read-only and duplicate it to edit • Your designs, stash and blocks sync privately over iCloud • Back up your library to one file and restore it anywhere Try it free with up to four designs, plus three starters to repaint with your stash and pattern in full; one purchase unlocks the rest, and Studio is a second. No subscription, ever. No ads, no tracking, no accounts to create.