Overall designs and pixel quilts

The "Pattern" tab shows the cells. Choose a fabric in the palette, and tap or drag over the cells to paint them, so you go on drawing the pattern or draw your own in an empty "Pixel quilt". "Shift" moves everything sideways or up and down: the painted squares follow, and what goes over the edge comes back when you move the other way. "Back to Color by Number" and the other names remove the painting and the shift again. Choose the number of squares, their size and, in the finished patterns, the number of colours. The "Quilt" tab shows the whole quilt with borders and binding, which you change by tapping them, as in a block quilt.

The patterns on triangles are painted the same way: one triangle at a time, or a whole hexagon or diamond when you have chosen "Whole pieces" under "Sewn as". They lie in rows across of equilateral triangles. Diamonds, hexagons and cubes are triangles with the same number, so the whole quilt is sewn in straight rows without Y-seams; the cutting chart cuts the triangles from strips with the ruler's 60° line, and the sides are trimmed straight at the end. Choose "Whole pieces" under "Sewn as" in the quilt panel, and the hexagons and diamonds are cut whole instead and set together with Y-seams, as they are traditionally sewn.

With "Pixel quilt from a photo" under New project you choose a photo, lay a frame round the part you want, and choose squares across and the number of colours. QuiltCrafter finds the colours in the photo and puts them light to dark on the palette's numbers.

"Spread the colours (dithering)" mixes two colours where the photo shades evenly from one to the other, and "Tidy away lone squares" removes squares that stand alone in their colour. Paint and shift on the "Pattern" tab as in the other pixel patterns, go back with "Back to the photo", redo it all with "Edit from the photo …", and swap the colours for your own fabrics with "Use my fabrics …". The size comes from the photo.

A 60° block is drawn on triangles instead of squares: a hexagon, a triangle or a 60° diamond with 1–6 triangles along each side. Choose "60° block" under New project, or start from one of the 60° blocks under Patterns.

The "Pattern" tab shows the block large. Choose a number in the palette, and tap or drag over the triangles to paint them; the quilt in the panel shows how the block repeats. Under "Size" above the middle you choose the shape, triangles a side, the triangle's side and how many blocks across and down. "−" at the block's top left and "+" at its bottom right make it a triangle a side smaller or larger and keep the painting: a hexagon grows from its middle, a triangle from its point and a diamond from its top left corner; point at "−" and what would go shows in red. On the "Quilt" tab "+" and "−" on the right and at the bottom add or take away blocks. Triangle blocks point up and down by turns, and the ones pointing down are the block turned half round.

A triangle in the block can be divided. Above the block the divisions are shown as small pictures: whole, half triangles and 2, 3 or 4 strips. Choose one, and tap a triangle near the corner the division is to go from: half triangles are divided from the corner to the middle of the side across, as in hexagon kaleidoscopes, and the strips lie parallel to the side across from the corner, as in Spider Web. "Divide all to the middle" divides every triangle of the block from its corner nearest the middle. With no division or number chosen, a tap picks the triangle; the divisions then change that one, and "Turn the division" moves it to the next corner. The pieces are painted one by one, and the cutting chart cuts the half triangles from rectangles and the strips as trapezoids.

Under the quilt on the "Quilt" tab you choose the repeat and the turning, as for a block quilt. "A/B by turns" puts a block B in every other place: every other column of hexagons, where the triangles point down, or a chessboard of diamonds. Block B starts as block A with its first two colours swapped and is chosen in the bar above the block, where "+ Block B" also turns A/B on and the bin takes B away again. "Around" turns the places so the hexagons round each corner swirl, and "Mirrored" mirrors every other one. Under "Sewn as" in the quilt panel a 60° block can also be sewn "Block by block".

The quilt is sewn like the other designs on triangles: in rows of triangles, the sides trimmed straight at the end, or with "Whole pieces" (chosen under "Sewn as" in the quilt panel) as hexagons and diamonds with Y-seams. The cutting chart, the sewing steps and the pattern booklet follow.