Stitchtale

Hundreds of quilts, every one worked out

Meet StitchtaleMake a quilt, one block at a time.

Pick a quilt. Your companion reads each step out loud, checks your block from a photo, and keeps your place until it's done.

Pick a quilt
  1. Eight folded fat quarters fanned out on a pale oak board — red, hot pink, orange, cobalt blue, teal, plum, sage green and a pale ice-blue print.

    Pick the fabrics

    Every bolt named, ready to buy

  2. One finished nine-patch quilt block on a pale oak board: four red corners and a hot pink centre on a pale ice-blue print.

    Sew one block

    Block 1 of 25 · seam ¼″ · press toward the dark

  3. Cabins and Nine Patch, finished and photographed on a kitchen table

    Finish the quilt

    45 × 45″ · every piece counted

Hundreds of quilts on the shelf, every one worked out to the last piece.

  • Every piece counted and sized before you cut
  • Read aloud, one block at a time
  • Snap a photo of your block and ask
The Stitchtale shelf on a desktop: two rows of quilt covers — Autumn Table, Cats and Houses, Garden Rows, Lightning Field, Geese in a Gradient — each with its size, level and how many colourways it comes in.

On the shelf

Garden Rows

Bed quilt · twin · Intermediate · 6 colourways

A shelf of hundreds of quilts to explore.

Every one is ours, drawn and worked out here, and it is yours to make the moment you take it. Search it, or spin it for a pick.

Tap a quilt and the whole plan opens

Eight bolts of quilting cotton lying in a row on a pale oak board — cream, teal, plum, olive, dusty rose, gold, aubergine and pink.
The Fabrics panel of the editor: Make it yours, try a fabric or colour and every matching piece updates; the target fabric is a Riley Blake woven, with nine colours to swap it for and whole sets to dress the quilt in underneath.

See it in the fabrics first.

Tap a quilt, tap a set of cloth, and the whole quilt changes. Every set names the bolts it is made of, so you can buy exactly what you see.

Tap a set and the quilt changes

One quilt-along step on a desktop: Block 1 of 16, Pieced-Corner Star, join the units top to bottom, with the two strips drawn, the instruction in plain words, and the chips Cut 3½″ × WOF and ¼″ seam.

This step

Cut 3½″ × WOF · ¼″ seam

Press these seams open to spread the bulk where the seams cross.

Every step drawn and explained.

One job on the screen, the piece drawn in your fabrics, and what to do with it in plain words. Read aloud if you like. It keeps your place.

Match the edges, right sides together

The Companion column beside the quilt: the question How do I press this block?, and its answer naming the two fabrics, the quarter-inch seam and what pressing open does.

It answered

Block 1 of 16 · step 6 of 11

Pressing the seam toward the darker fabric will keep your strip set flat before cross-cutting.

Your companion, right there.

Snap a photo of your block and ask. It knows what the block should measure, because it built the plan.

Ask, on every step

A spiral-bound quilt pattern book lying open on a pale oak board, its pages printed with block diagrams and cutting tables, a second closed copy beside it.
A page of the printed quilt book: What to buy, one of two — each fabric with its colour, how many yards, and how many strips across the width of the fabric.

The quilt book.

Every cut, every seam, every size, in one book you can read on the screen or print.

Ready to print

Community on a desktop: a quilter's photograph of her quilt under the machine with the step she is on, beside another quilter's question about pressing the rows.

In the app

Shared from the quilt-along

The step she is on goes with the photograph, so the room knows what it is looking at.

Share it, ask other quilters.

Post your block or your finished quilt, and ask the room.

Community, in the app

Questions quilters ask

What does it cost?

$5.99 a week or $79 a year, and you can cancel any time. You pay from the first block — there is no free trial, because there is nothing to try out: what you get is the making, and it starts straight away.

What is free?

The shelf, the films, the quilt of the day, spinning the shelf for a pick, and the fabric list for every quilt — what each cloth is and where it is sold. You can read all of that without an account.

Can I use my own fabrics?

Yes. Every quilt comes in several sets of cloth, and tapping one changes the whole quilt — every set is cut and sewn exactly the same way, so nothing about the sewing changes when you change your mind.

Do I need to upload a pattern?

No. Every quilt on the shelf is ours, drawn and worked out here, and it is yours to make the moment you take it. Bringing in a pattern you already own is a separate door and not one you need.

What if a plan is wrong?

Tell us and we fix the plan — not with an apology, with a corrected plan. The terms say what that covers.

The full wording is in the terms.

Cabins and Nine Patch, finished

Finish the quilt.

Pick a quilt

$5.99 a week, cancel any time.