Quilt Design Wizard™ will estimate the fabric yardage required for your quilt. Remember that these are estimates. You may find you need more or less fabric depending on how you cut out your pattern or whether you are using a special combination sewing cutting method which has you trim fabric after sewing.

Click theto display the Print Quilt Yardage options.

Actual fabric width takes into account that the usable width may be a bit smaller.

Select the Seam allowance width you want to use for calculating yardage.

Select the Number of copies you want of the printout.

The Preview button will display a summary chart of the fabrics used in the quilt including a small swatch of each fabric and the amount needed of each.

How Quilt Design Wizard™ figures yardage

• It adds the seam allowance you select to each patch.
• It places an imaginary rectangle around each patch.
• It places these rectangles on fabric of the selected width. Each time a row is filled, it begins a new row counting the entire strip as required yardage.
  

The result is generally an over estimate of the required yardage. The amount of the overage varies depending on a number of factors. Shapes like on-point lattice strips, for example, tend to give exceptionally large yardage figures, because there is a lot of wasted fabric in the circumscribed rectangles. For blocks with many small regular pieces, estimates tend to be much more accurate. The estimate for the border is the length of the longest border strip. Backing and binding are not estimated.