Yardage

If you've ever estimated yardage by hand, counting pieces, multiplying dimensions, and adding a cushion "just in case," you know how tedious it gets. BloqLoft does the math from the actual geometry of your quilt.

How yardage is calculated

BloqLoft doesn't estimate with bounding rectangles. The geometry engine knows the exact dimensions of every fabric piece in your quilt. It packs those pieces onto a standard bolt width (typically 44 inches) and reports the total length of fabric needed for each color or swatch.

This accounts for seam allowance, waste from packing, and the actual shapes of your pieces.

Reading the yardage panel

Open the yardage panel to see a breakdown by fabric:

• Fabric swatch — Which fabric or color this row represents
• Piece count — How many individual pieces use this fabric
• Yardage — Total fabric needed, in yards (or your preferred unit)

The total at the bottom sums all fabrics for a quick shopping reference.

Bolt packing

Real fabric comes on bolts with a fixed width. BloqLoft simulates packing your cut pieces onto that bolt width to give you a realistic yardage figure. The packing accounts for the actual shapes of your pieces, not just their bounding boxes. This means irregular shapes like triangles and diamonds are packed efficiently, the same way you'd arrange them on fabric with a rotary cutter.

What's included

Yardage calculations include:

• All block pieces (every patch in every block instance)
• Sashing strips and cornerstones
• Borders
• Binding

Backing fabric is not included in the yardage panel. Backing depends on your quilting approach and quilting style, which varies too much to automate reliably.