TideStitch

Built by a quilter who got tired of graph paper. Design blocks (or draw your own), audition fabrics at true scale, and keep your stash under control.

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 watch the whole thing come together before you cut a single piece.

No graph paper, no colored pencils, and no math. Design the quilt you actually want and TideStitch works out the finished and cut sizes for you, so you walk away with an accurate cut list instead of a pile of guesswork. Drop in real fabric from your stash (photographed at true scale, so a 6" print reads like 6") or paint with color, and audition the whole quilt until it's exactly right.

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"
• Tag swatches by base color, material, and print style, then filter your stash and your fabric palette to find the right one fast
• Or paint with solid colors from a curated palette, or pick any custom color

A LIBRARY OF TRADITIONAL BLOCKS

• Pinwheel, Sawtooth Star, Broken Dishes, Friendship Star, Ohio Star, Hunter's Star, Log Cabin, and Bear Paw
• A blank HST grid you can color freely: set how many half-square triangles across and down, rotate any unit, or merge units into plain squares
• A simple squares grid for classic patchwork: size it by the square or by the finished top, your choice
• Every patch is independently colorable

DESIGN YOUR OWN BLOCK

• Start from a blank grid and draw your own: split cells with diagonals, merge patches into bigger shapes, and paint every region
• Or go radial: set an anchor point, fan rays out from it, and fill the wedges
• Snapping keeps your lines on the grid, so your design stays neat without fiddling

WHOLE-QUILT LAYOUTS

• Build a quilt from a grid of blocks: repeat one block or mix different ones
• Color each block independently for gradients and secondary patterns
• See the finished quilt size update as you go

JELLY ROLL MODE

• Tell the app about your jelly roll, photograph the strips
• Pick from strip-friendly patterns (Jelly Roll Race, Rail Fence, Strip Twist, Strip Patchwork)
• See exactly how many of your strips each pattern needs
• "Randomize" for instant scrappy layouts

REAL QUILTING MATH

• Everything is finished size: the space a piece takes in the quilt
• Set your seam allowance (¼", scant ¼", metric, or custom) and see squared-up / cut sizes
• Designed so the numbers are correct for real cutting

BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU WORK

• Pinch to zoom and pan into tiny patches
• Undo, and Clear All to start fresh
• iPad-first, runs on iPhone: use your phone as the camera and your iPad as the studio
• Your designs and stash sync privately over iCloud

Your fabric photos and designs stay in your own iCloud account. No ads, no tracking, no accounts to create.