Sampler quilts, shared designs, and a Lone Star you can take apart. Sampler quilts in Design Your Own: • Pick Sampler when you start a board, tap Blocks on the rail, and the palette fills with your Studio blocks and the whole catalog. Tap a cell to place one. • Mix sizes. Drag a marquee of any shape before you pick, or set a block's finished size on the ruler, and TideStitch fits spacer pieces around it so the board squares up. A rectangular block lands at its own shape, and you choose where it sits in its spot. • Fit tells you whether the top comes apart in straight sections, and the sew order names them: make section A, then join the sections to finish the top. • The cut list bills every placed block by its real units at its real size. Share a design: • Share… on any design of your own, from the list or the editor menu, packs that one quilt into a file for AirDrop, Messages, Mail or Files. • The other quilter opens it in TideStitch read-only and taps Duplicate to Edit to make their own copy. No accounts, no server. Lone Star: • Up to 8 diamonds a point (was 6), with the ring colors glowing all the way to the tips. • Design one point and the star stamps it into all eight: paint diamonds by cell or by ring, pick a Glow or Nested Star fill, lean the ramp toward the rows or the columns, and choose Rotational or Mirror symmetry. The strip sets and sew order follow, and a mirrored star bills its two diamonds honestly. • In Studio: sash between the diamonds, frame them into hollow snowflake diamonds, split them on either diagonal, or merge a run into one parallelogram. Each prints a real cut list and sew order, and the strip-set drawings show the sashing. Quilting: • Import a longarm design file (DXF, QLI, HQF, TAP, CSV or a coordinate list) into the quilting preview and it is lofted over your top, tiled edge to edge at a repeat width you set. The preview is still not saved with the design. • Quilting on a photo, under Resources → Tools: photograph a finished top, pin its corners, and preview a pantograph lofted over the real fabric. Share a before-and-after. Your first four previews are free; after that it is part of the one-time unlock. Free tier: • The three bundled starters now arrive painted, and a free account can repaint any of them with its own stash and see the full pattern on screen without spending one of its four designs. Studio: • Strips inside a split shape: tap one triangle of a split cell and the strips run to that piece's own edges. Fixed: • On iPhone, a long design name no longer pushes the editor menu into a second More. • A phone in landscape gives the quilt the room it wasted below the palette. • Splitting a cell after using the Strips tool no longer wipes the diagonal.

See the quilting before you quilt. A new Quilting tool on the rail previews the quilting over your finished top, with the loft of the batting, not just the thread. Stitch in the ditch, straight lines and crosshatch at any spacing and angle, wavy lines, echo quilting (once, or all the way in), and a free-motion meander you can reshuffle until you like it. Stack up to four layers, pick any thread color, or turn on Draw and quilt it by hand with a finger or Pencil. It works in the block editor and in Design Your Own. It is a preview for now: nothing is saved with the design or printed yet. Bargello: • The pattern prints the strip-set order, on screen and in the PDF. • A real Cut list: one row per column with a picture of the opened column, which strip goes on top, which seam to open, and the cut width. Tap a column to see it large. • Jelly-roll designs no longer warn about the default 12" block size they never had. Blocks and backgrounds: • Bouquet, Texas Treasures, Storm at Sea and Cathedral Window now take your background fabric on their background pieces. • LeMoyne Star and Lone Star do too. • In Studio, long-press a swatch and choose Mark Pieces as Background to fix a block of your own. Design Your Own: • A Sizes toggle in the Line tool hides the inch readouts when they are in the way. • The Line picker fits on a phone again. Free calculators, now eight of them under Resources: binding, backing and batting, setting triangles and square-in-a-square join half-square triangles, flying geese, LeMoyne Star and Lone Star. Fixed a crash when a swatch re-cropped on another device synced in while a design was open.

Support TideStitch Early adopters asked for a way to chip in, so there's now an optional tip jar in Settings > Purchases. Completely optional, unlocks nothing, and thank you. Studio • Two-finger pan and pinch on iPad, and on a Mac trackpad, now work the way you expect. Hold Space and drag to pan. • Escape cancels a cut you've started, on iPad with a keyboard and on Mac. • Opening a block from My Blocks asks before replacing unsaved work, and no longer leaves an undo step back to a blank grid. • Reference photos: a Size slider, and you can add one from a file as well as from Photos. Design • The Borders list shows the fabric each border is actually wearing, instead of a placeholder color. • The Layout sheet reads a rectangular block as its real size (16" x 17", not a 16" square).

TideStitch 1.7 is the biggest update yet: two new stars, a value view for checking contrast, sashing on every layout, a cut list you can tick off, and a one-time purchase that keeps the app subscription-free. Early adopters keep what they had. NEW • LeMoyne Star and Lone Star in the block picker, with free calculators in Resources and a step-by-step sew order with a drawing for every step, Y-seams included. • Value View. The design editor's ••• menu can render your quilt in grayscale, so you check contrast the way you'd check value on paper instead of eyeballing colour against colour. Works on every kind of design: block quilts, Design Your Own, jelly rolls, bargello, starter designs. Flip it on to audition contrast, off to see your fabrics again. • Sashing on on-point layouts: diagonal strips, cornerstones, lattice running to the edge. • Sashing on brick-set layouts. • Cut lists merge same-size cuts, add checkboxes that remember where you stopped (on the PDF too), and put cutting before piecing. • One tap paints a whole ring on blocks that support it. • A cell can split into an X: four quarter-square triangles, each painted on its own. • Trace-over reference photo under the Design Your Own board, so you can build a pattern over your own inspiration image. • Machine-side view that shows which piece to sew next, and where. • Free flying-geese calculator with method diagrams. • Focus mode now reaches the Line, Radial, and Copy/Paste canvases. • Complete bundle: one purchase unlocks the app and Studio together. Basic and Studio remain available separately. IMPROVED • Faster, smoother painting on the design canvas. • Swatch chips are visible against white and light fabrics. • Cut lists name 45° diamonds and quarter-square triangles directly on a block's pieces. • My Blocks shows your blocks, not a list of timestamps. • Resources replaces Settings in the tab bar, with an About Studio card. FIXED • On-point patterns: the edge-block cutting note now says which blocks are halved and which are quartered, matching the assembly step. • Contradictory trim instructions for a star's side triangles. • The keyboard reflowing the block designer, and the rename keyboard flipping a portrait iPad into the wrong layout. • A reference photo stretching instead of fitting a rectangular block's board. • The canvas eating strokes along the right and bottom edges. • Save As New dropping fields when copying a design. • Editing a log cabin's lines leaving a duplicate block behind.

Paint every piece, not just the blocks. Borders, sashing strips and cornerstones are now painted one at a time, so a quilt can have a different fabric on each border side and a cornerstone that does not match the strips running into it. On-point quilts get the same treatment: every setting triangle takes its own fabric. Choosing a background is easier too. Tap Background on the tool rail and the whole palette becomes the background picker, with the quilt in full view behind it, so you can try three grounds in a row and see each one on the actual design. The old pop-up sheet is gone. In the stash: • The select tool does more than delete. Pick several fabrics and tag them, change their type, or edit their details in one pass. • The filters, Select and New now stay put at the top while you scroll. • Big stashes scroll noticeably faster. • The Tags filter is easier to hit. Pattern fixes, all of them things you cut fabric to: • Strip yardage now packs different cut sizes onto shared strips instead of starting a new strip for each one, so you buy less. • Foundation paper piecing prints its trim ring at your seam allowance, not always 1/4". • Half-square triangles in rectangular blocks keep the right handedness in the cut list. • Hourglass units are recognized as four triangles meeting at the center. • Turning off top-left inheritance no longer disturbs the top row of half blocks.

Make Seamless: point TideStitch at any regular print, dot, or stripe and it lines the repeat up so the fabric tiles across your quilt with no visible join, at its true real-world scale. HST Calculator: a free half-square-triangle calculator now lives in Settings. Enter your finished size and how many you need, pick 2, 4, 8, or 16 at a time, and get exact cut sizes with a method diagram. A bigger block library: 20 new pieced blocks join the pack, from Storm at Sea and Variable Star to Cathedral Window and Jewel Box, for 50 in all. Design Your Own, faster: freeform painting is dramatically smoother now, with cleaner strokes and quicker saves. Shop smarter: patterns now suggest fat quarters and fat eighths when they save you fabric over yardage, and your stash gains filters by designer, manufacturer, line, and your own tags, plus multi-select delete. Per-design palettes: narrow the paint tray to just the fabrics in one quilt. Plus a tidier design editor with Background, Borders, and Layout on the tool rail, a fixed white-balance eyedropper, and a batch of smaller fixes.

Four new ways to design a quilt. ON POINT. Set your blocks on the diagonal. Setting and corner triangles are drawn from the block itself rather than left as blank filler, and Design Your Own boards get a medallion layout. The cut list gives you the real triangle pieces in the right shapes, with grain notes and the starting squares to cut them from. BRICK. Stagger your blocks like brickwork. Every other column drops by half a block, a third, or a quarter, and you can stagger rows instead. The quilt finishes exactly the size a straight set would, because the block missing from one end of a dropped line is the one hanging off the other. It sews in full-length strips: no Y-seams, no partial seams, no bias edge to stretch. BARGELLO. Photograph a jelly roll, arrange your strips into a color ramp, and shape the wave. TideStitch does the tube math: how many tubes to sew and how many strips of each print that takes. Start from Single Diagonal, Classic Wave, or Mirrored Wave, then tap any column to widen it, narrow it, or roll its colors. COLORWAYS. Try a design in more than one set of fabrics without losing the first. Audition a swap, save it as a variant, put two side by side to compare. On every kind of quilt, not just your own boards. Cam3mommy, this one is for you! The design editor is rebuilt around the quilt. Tools sit on their own shelf, with words on them, instead of a menu inside a menu: Rename is one tap instead of three. Turn an iPad or iPhone sideways and the palette stands beside the quilt and wraps, so your whole stash is reachable. Stacked underneath, it has a lid you can shut, and on a phone you can drag the band away entirely. And "swap this fabric everywhere" finally works on block quilts, showing every patch it will change before it changes one. A long quilt can fill a wide screen. Turn the view a quarter turn, or let the quilt scroll and spend its side gutters, so a tall design stops being a strip down the middle. Both change what you look at and never the quilt: every measurement and cut size stays put. Colors you can browse. Tap a color family for nine tints and shades, then drag for hue and for vivid-to-dusty. Your quilt looks more like a quilt. Every piece now shows its own part of its fabric, instead of fifty copies of the same square inch. And a quilt you haven't colored yet is shaded by the block's own light and dark parts, so a Nine-Patch reads as a Nine-Patch instead of white on white. Both have a switch in Settings. One screen for your swatches. Adding, editing, recropping, replacing, and adjusting all happen in one place that uses the whole screen, with exposure, contrast, and saturation. Replace a badly lit photo without losing the fabric and every quilt using it recolors itself. Rail Fence, Strip Twist, and Strip Patchwork take a size now: blocks across by blocks down. And a jelly roll pattern is answered in strips rather than yardage: exactly how many of your strips it takes, because you already own the fabric. Both tabs have a gallery, and Patterns has its own tab split into Overview, Cut, and Sew. Six new blocks: Rising Sun, Rocky Glen, Clay's Choice, Lady of the Lake, Cross and Crown, and Laurie's Bear Paw. Quilts can be 12 blocks across and down. The rest is arithmetic. Three audits of the pattern math since 1.3: • A Snowball is cut the way you sew it: one background square and four corner squares, because nobody cuts an octagon. • A piece the rotary ruler can't name prints its true outline and says to trim to it. • Batting buys the shorter way around the roll, and says how long to cut. • Pieced borders cut to fit the border you actually drew. • Backing and binding pay for their own seams and joins. • Merged pieces are billed, and drawn, as the one piece of fabric they are cut from. • An hourglass is cut as an hourglass: two squares subcut on both diagonals, not four triangles trimmed to an outline. If any number disagrees with your rotary ruler, that is exactly the report we want.

New: Actual Size. Tap the ruler and the block on screen becomes its true physical size, so you can lay your own fabric against the glass and check the scale for yourself. The first time, it asks you to check it against your rotary ruler. The rest is mostly about the numbers. Pattern fixes worth having before you cut again: - Blocks built from other blocks had cut sizes an eighth of an inch too big. - The first assembly step was leaving units out of its count. - Printed patterns no longer strand a step heading at the foot of a page, or cut a pressing note in half. Three new blocks: Cactus Bud, Missouri Puzzle, and Tide Line. The size picker now offers every size a block can actually be cut at, and warns you before you choose one that won't sew flat. The starter designs come at sizes you can cut. Painting a large quilt top is faster.

Y'all, TideStitch runs on your Mac now! That's the big one: same app, same designs, syncing right alongside your iPad and iPhone, but with a real window, a sidebar, keyboard shortcuts (⌘Z and ⌘⇧Z for undo and redo, plus the ⌘ zoom keys), and click-and-drag painting so you can fill a whole run of patches in one sweep. If you've been wanting to design on the big screen, here you go. A few more things worth mentioning: You can back up your entire library to a single file now: every design, every swatch, every jelly roll, all in one .tidestitch file you can tuck away for safekeeping or carry to another device. Import it back anytime and it merges in without stepping on what's already there. New starter designs are waiting when you first open the app, so you land on real quilts instead of an empty grid (they're free extras, they don't count against your design slots). And five new blocks joined the library: Anvil, Birds in the Air, Flying Dutchman, Double X, and Cat's Cradle. More on the way, I'm adding them every couple of weeks now. One fix worth calling out too: a few pattern types were leaving the cut list and sewing instructions off the exported PDF. That's sorted now, so every export comes with the full cut list and instructions, the way it always should have. Happy stitching! -Bec

Y'all, this is a big one. Design Your Own is here: a freeform designer where you build your own block from scratch instead of picking from the library. Draw your lines, paint your patches, merge shapes, even go radial if you're feeling fancy. Your quilt, your rules. Two new blocks joined the library too: Bear Paw (a classic for a reason) and Squares, a simple patchwork grid you can size by the block or by the finished top, whichever way your brain works. And for anyone whose fabric stash has gotten a little out of hand (no judgment, mine started this whole app): you can now tag your swatches by base color, material, and print style, then filter both your stash and your design palette to find the right fabric fast. Happy stitching! -Bec