The quilt

At the top of the quilt panel you choose the setting: "Rows" (blocks in straight rows), "On point" (blocks turned 45° with triangles along the edges), "Medallion" (a centre with rounds around it) or "Free" (you place blocks and fields yourself). On point, "Along the edge" chooses setting triangles, or blocks that go on past the edge and are cut there. If a switch could lose something, QuiltCrafter asks first, and you can always undo.

How many blocks there are across and down you choose by tapping the quilt's size in the bar over the quilt (or with "+" and "−" on the sides). Under the quilt you choose the repeat: "Same block" everywhere, "A/B alternating" or "Per place". Per place, you choose a block above the quilt and tap the places it should stand on; "Fill" lays it out in a pattern such as a checkerboard, rows or diagonals.

Select a place to turn just that one, or give it "Own colours …", such as one blue leaf among the red ones, without copying the block. "+" and "−" on each side of the quilt add or remove a row or column of blocks there.

Turning gives the same blocks new patterns: "Every other", "Four around" (four blocks round a shared corner), "Rings", "Wide stripes" and "Zigzag", and "Mirrored" and "Kaleidoscope", which mirror the blocks towards each other. On point it runs along the diagonals. If a block looks the same from every side, QuiltCrafter says the turning will not show.

When nothing is selected, the bar above the quilt has buttons to add a border, sashing and binding. Tap a border, the sashing, the cornerstones, the triangles or the binding to select it: then you change its width and fabric in the bar, move a border in or out, or remove it. Sashing can have cornerstones in another fabric, also when the blocks stand on point.

Choose a number in the palette while you are on the quilt tab, and tap a border or the sashing to paint it with that fabric.

"Find a size …" helps you reach a given size, such as a queen bed or your own. Choose the size, and get suggestions for blocks across and down with an outer border that hits it. For a medallion it suggests an outer round, and for a free layout a canvas. It works for overall designs and 60° blocks too, where the suggestions are squares or blocks across and down.

A medallion is built from the inside out, by the quilt. The cards above the quilt are the centre and each round; "New round" adds a round of a unit (such as flying geese all the way round), a round of the project's blocks or a plain border. Tap a round to change its block, count, direction and corners.

Tap the centre to choose its block and size. The centre can also be a small grid of blocks, such as 2 × 2 or 3 × 3, with a B block in every other place and a turning such as "Four around", so four blocks make a star or a pinwheel round the middle. Only a single block in the centre can stand on point.

"Fill the side" gives the round's blocks the size that fits along the side, and if the measurements do not work, QuiltCrafter suggests a border between. A round of a unit is a block of the project, which you paint with "Edit the block".

In a free layout the quilt is a canvas. Choose a block or a "Plain field" above the canvas and tap where it should go; drag to move, R turns, and Alt + arrow repeats it beside itself. Fields get a width, height and fabric in the bar. QuiltCrafter counts the holes, and "Fill holes" closes them with plain fields. The borders and the binding are drawn round the canvas and changed by tapping them, as in the other settings.