Block Studio & Editor

Block Studio is your block library. The Block Editor is where you design. Together 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 categories you'll recognize: 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; your designs appear in Block Design Studio.

Previewing a block

Tap a block card to open the preview sheet. From here you can see the block at full size, swap colors to explore variations, open the Block Editor for full editing, or start a new quilt directly from this block.

Creating and managing blocks

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

Note: Deleting a block doesn't 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 quilt blocks. Every block is built from patches: geometric regions that each hold a shape and a fill (a color or fabric). If you've ever arranged fabric pieces on a design wall, you already understand how blocks come together here.

How blocks work

A block is a square design unit. Each patch contains a shape (a triangle, square, diamond, or custom polygon) and a fill (a solid color or a fabric swatch). Patches layer on top of each other. What's on top covers what's below.

The paint model

Patches stack top-to-bottom: the top patch's visible area is its full shape, and each layer below only shows what isn't covered by anything above it. You don't need to cut shapes to fit around each other. Overlap freely and BloqLoft calculates the exact fabric pieces needed for manufacturing.

Why this matters: When you export templates, every piece has exact cut lines with seam allowance. The paint model ensures no overlaps and no gaps in the final output. Every piece is manufacturable.

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