Block Studio & Editor

Block Studio is where all your personally-created blocks live. The Block Editor is where you design and edit your block patterns. Along with the Block Template library, they cover the full workflow: browse templates, pick a starting point, and build your block patch by patch.

Block Studio

BloqLoft ships with a library of block templates organized into some common categories: Four Patch, Nine Patch, Stars, Five Patch, Seven Patch, Florals & Nature, Modern & Geometric, Classic Traditionals, and Curves. Browse by category to explore, or use search to find a block by name.

Your own blocks live separately from the Template Library. Templates stay in the Template Library; when you start a new block pattern from a Template, you are simply creating a clone of the template. From there on, your block pattern is independent from any template.

Previewing a block

Tap a block card to open the preview sheet. From here you can see the block at a larger size, swap/change colors to explore variations, and then open it in the Block Editor to edit in full, or you can choose to go directly to creating a quilt from it.

Creating and managing blocks

Tap + to create a new block from a blank canvas. Long-press any block card for options: Duplicate, Rename, or Delete.

Note: Deleting a block does not affect quilts that already use it. Quilts store their own copy of each block’s data.

Block Editor

The Block Editor is where you design individual block patterns. Every block is built from patches: geometric regions that each hold a shape and a fill (or fills) that is either a color or a fabric texture. If you've ever arranged fabric pieces on a design wall, you already understand how blocks come together here.

In this section

  • Interface — toolbar, panels, and editor controls
  • Patches & Layers — adding, selecting, and reordering patches
  • Shapes — the shape library, custom shapes, and transforming shapes
  • Colors & Fabrics — assigning fills, working with palettes, and fussy cutting
  • Colorways — creating color variations of your block
  • Templates — generating piecing templates and other printable outputs
  • Share — exporting and printing from the Actions panel