Memory Quilt Planner for Cloth You Already Love

A memory quilt planner should place real garments and photos as fabric on a layout you can sew — not a scrapbook mockup. Quiltler photographs prints, sets size, and counts pieces. Design is free; one saved quilt and two fabrics.

People search memory quilt planner after a death, a graduation, or a drawer of baby clothes. Quiltler’s honest offer is design: photograph the cloth, lay blocks, keep finished size, read a fabric total. It does not sew the quilt or print photos onto cotton for you. T-shirt-only grids are t-shirt quilt planner. A portrait turned into polygons is photo quilt maker. Stash photography is the quilt fabric stash app.

What this page actually plans

Quiltler desktop quilt design studio: setting quilt size and block grid, then placing blocks and fabrics on the canvas
The studio keeps finished size visible while you add blocks, sashing and borders.

What the studio can and cannot hold

Quiltler holds geometry and photographs of cloth. It does not replace a longarmer, a label maker, or a grief counsellor. Use it so the family agrees on size and on which two prints dominate before anyone cuts a wedding dress.

Sashing in a quiet solid often saves a busy memory top. That is the quilt sashing planner. Borders should not accidentally turn a lap of baby clothes into a king.

Stabilise knits and silks at the ironing board. The canvas assumes you will sew the fibres you photographed.

The Quiltler companion app on iPhone with a quilt open on the design canvas
Yardage on the canvas follows pieces. Binding and backing in the pack are subscription.

Memory versus t-shirt versus photo quilt

T-shirt planner assumes a grid of graphics. Memory planner assumes mixed clothing and maybe a scanned photo printed on fabric you already bought. Photo quilt maker assumes one picture faceted into pieces. Pick the job.

Colour roles still matter. How to choose quilt colors applies when the clothes fight each other.

Yardage and free limits

Background, sashing and backing are still shopping. Use how to calculate quilt fabric for the split. The garments are inventory.

One saved quilt on free should be the layout the family signed off on. Extra fabric photos are the paid library. Agree on throw versus queen before anyone cuts a wedding dress. Quiet sashing is allowed. Quiltler does not sew the quilt or print photos onto cotton. Foundation paper piecing is only for odd custom pieces you draw in Cut Creator, not for a rectangle of shirting.

Write the finished inches down, then open the matching backing, binding or batting answer if that size has one. Those pages do not replace the canvas: they cover the rectangle jobs. The pieced top is still counted in the studio. If one unit needs foundation paper piecing, the pack can print sheets after you subscribe; a nine-patch field does not. Keep the free limit in mind: one saved quilt and two photographed fabrics, plus solids, is enough to prove the plan before you cut a stack the shop will not take back.

Open the studio with two photographed garments and a throw size. If the scale is wrong, you learned it before the scissors.

Around this job

Memory Quilt Planner FAQ

Will Quiltler print photos on fabric?

No. Photograph fabric you have, or prints you made elsewhere.

Can I mix t-shirts and dresses?

Yes, as photographed prints on a layout. Stabilise each fibre at the machine.

Is this free?

Design is free; two fabrics and one saved quilt. More prints need a subscription.

Do you sew memory quilts for hire?

No. Quiltler is design software.

Plan the memory quilt in the studio

Photograph two garments. Set a size. Agree on the grid before you cut heirlooms.

Open the studio

Free to start · one saved quilt · two fabrics