Fabric Yardage Calculator
Tell Sashing how many pieces you need and the cut size of each one. It counts how many fit across a width of fabric, then reports the yardage you should buy.
Fabric needed
1/4 yd
In the app, this also gives you
- Multiple piece sizes in one plan
- Checked against your real stash
- Cost from your own price per yard
How much fabric for a number of pieces?
Quilting cotton is about 42 inches wide off the bolt and closer to 40 usable inches once you trim the selvages. To cut a batch of same-size pieces, you work across that width first: divide 40 by your cut width and round down, and that is how many pieces come from a single strip. Divide your total piece count by that number and round up, and you have how many strips to cut. Each strip is one cut length tall, so the fabric you buy is the strip count times the cut length, rounded up to the nearest eighth of a yard.
Rounding down across the width and up on both counts is deliberate: it makes sure you never come up short, and it accounts for the sliver of fabric left over on each strip.
Prefer the details? Read how many pieces you get from a width of fabric.
There's more where that came from
In the app this becomes a scrap-layout plan across multiple piece sizes at once, checked against the fabric you actually own.
Coming to the App Store for iPhone and iPad.