TideStitch: Quilt Designer

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.