About QuiltCrafter
QuiltCrafter is a tool for designing quilts: choosing fabrics, putting blocks together and seeing the finished quilt before you cut.
It is made for quilters who like to try out colours and blocks before the fabric is cut, on the computer, on the tablet in the sewing room or on the phone. You can build the quilt from blocks, from a pattern across the whole top, from 60° triangles or from a photo.
When the design is ready, QuiltCrafter gives you the cutting chart, full-size templates, the sewing steps and a pattern booklet to print. Under Patterns you will find blocks and quilts to start from, with their history and sources.
Your data stays with you
There is no account. Projects, photos and the fabric library are saved only in your own browser.
We count anonymously which pages, patterns and features are used, along with the language, the kind of screen (phone, tablet or computer), the browser and system (the name alone, such as Safari on iOS), roughly what time of day, and the name of the site you came from. These are totals per day, and besides them we keep the last 10 arrivals with the same details, without a time. No cookies, no IP addresses and nothing that can recognise you. If your browser asks not to be tracked, we do not count at all.
The fonts are on the site itself, and nothing is fetched from others, unless you drag in a picture from another page yourself; then your browser fetches it from there.
A share link carries the project, without photos, in the link itself. It reaches only those you give the link.
If you write feedback, the message is saved on the web host with your name, if you give it, and the details the form names. Only we can read it, and a closed message is deleted after 12 months.
If you write to us under Contact, we keep your name, your e-mail and your message on the web host so we can answer you. Other users cannot see them, and they are deleted 12 months after the matter is closed.
If you clear your browser data, your projects go too. So take a backup now and then: one .quilt file with all projects, fabrics and photos, which also moves everything to another computer.
What we want with QuiltCrafter
It should be easy to see a quilt before the fabric is cut, and just as easy to get from an idea to a finished quilt. Patterns have a history, and often someone who made them. We tell it with sources, so they get the recognition they deserve.
QuiltCrafter is free, and your projects stay locally with you. That is how it stays as long as we do not store your projects. If a wish to save online comes up later, we will look at the options.
Who is behind it?
QuiltCrafter started with a question from my wife, who runs the yarn shop Moster Kenneth: how would her Color by Number quilt actually look in the fabrics she had chosen?
We could not find a simple tool that made it easy to try out different fabrics and colours. And as a seasoned web developer I thought: Surely you can build that yourself!
So I did.
It began with one quilt pattern, but the ideas soon grew. Why stop at changing colours? Why not also put together your own blocks, experiment with patterns and see the whole quilt before you cut the fabric?
That is how QuiltCrafter came about. A project that began with a real need, and that will hopefully make it a little easier and more fun for others to design their own quilts.
I am still working on QuiltCrafter and would love to hear what you think. If you have ideas, wishes or suggestions for improvements, please use our feedback feature in the top navigation.
Kind regards
Kenneth Rørstrøm