Fabrics

Your physical fabric stash lives in bins and on shelves. Your digital stash lives here. Import photos of your real fabric, and BloqLoft renders them on your blocks and quilts so you can see exactly how they'll look before you cut.

More than color

Solid colors work well for sketching, but fabrics are where a design comes together. A fabric swatch carries the print, the visual texture, the weight of the real material. Two fabrics with the same average color can look completely different on a quilt. BloqLoft shows you that difference on screen.

How fabrics work

Each fabric in your library is a photograph that BloqLoft maps onto patch geometry. Think of it like laying fabric over a template: the print tiles naturally across the piece. This means:

• The fabric pattern repeats across pieces just like it would on your cutting mat
• You can fussy cut to position the fabric precisely within a patch
• Moving a piece doesn't shift its fabric alignment (unless you want it to)

Repeat dimensions

Every print fabric has a repeat: the distance before the pattern tiles again. You've seen this on selvedge edges where manufacturers print the repeat size. BloqLoft uses these dimensions to scale the fabric texture accurately on your patches. Set them when you import, or edit them later. Getting the repeat right means your on-screen preview matches what you'll see when you cut real fabric.

In this section

• Importing — How to photograph and import fabric swatches
• Collections — Organizing fabrics by manufacturer or line
• Managing — Renaming, editing properties, and deleting swatches