Colors & Fabrics

Every patch needs a fill: either a solid color or a fabric swatch. The Fills tab in the right panel is where you assign, swap, and fine-tune fills for every piece of your design.

Solid colors

To assign a solid color, select a patch and open the Fills tab. You can pick from your current palette or use the full color wheel for any hue you want.

Solid colors are useful for planning. Sketch out your design in color first, then swap to real fabrics when you're ready to commit to your stash.

Fabric swatches

Switch to the fabric section in the Fills tab to assign a fabric swatch from your library. The fabric renders on the patch with its actual pattern and texture. What you see on screen is what you'll work with at the cutting mat.

To add fabrics to your library, see Fabrics → Importing.

Fussy cutting

If you've ever carefully positioned a template on fabric to capture a specific motif, you already know fussy cutting. BloqLoft gives you the same control on screen. With a fabric-filled patch selected, you can pan and zoom the fabric texture independently of the patch shape. Center a flower, align a stripe, or isolate the perfect section of a print.

Working with palettes

Palettes give you a curated set of colors or fabrics to work with. Select a palette and its swatches appear in the Fills tab for quick access. Apply fills from the palette to any patch with a single tap.

For more on creating and managing palettes, see Palettes.

Pattern-level fills

Sometimes you want to change a color or fabric everywhere it appears in a block, not just on one patch. Pattern-level fill commands replace a fill across the entire block at once. This is especially useful when you've decided against a fabric and want to swap it out everywhere.