Practical quilting tools

Plan the Fabric for the Quilt You’re Already Making

Bring the rectangular cut requirements from your pattern, notes, or spreadsheet. Add fabric you already own, then see what to use, what to buy, and how to cut the selected plan.

The planner reconciles all pieces for each fabric together and keeps pattern comparison separate from your stock-aware shopping shortfall.

Free · No account · Editable quilting assumptions

Start with the job in front of you

Project fabric planner

Reconcile a cut list across measured remnants and any new fabric, then get a shopping list, named stock allocations, instructions, and diagrams from the selected placements.

Create a fabric cutting plan

Fabric, backing, and batting

Estimate repeated-piece yardage, compare backing panels, or check batting size and roll orientation.

Calculate quilt backing yardage

Eleven focused calculators

Calculate binding, HSTs, QSTs, Flying Geese, blocks, borders, sashing, or how many pieces fit real stock.

Choose a quilting calculator

What you need and what you get

Start with rectangular cut or finished sizes, fabric assignments, and optional measured stock. QuiltClarity returns a buy-now list, exact material allocations, practical leftovers, warnings, and accessible visual and text cutting plans. Calculations run locally with no account.

The bounded deterministic optimizer favors valid, practical cuts; it does not claim a mathematically proven global minimum. See how the workflow works.

Understand the assumptions

Usable width of fabric

Plan with the width left after selvages, not just the bolt label.

Learn what WOF means