Makerly is a quilting studio, an embroidery workbench, a trusted helper, and a community of local craft shops — all in your pocket. Swipe below for the deep dives.
A full studio for the way you actually make quilts — design blocks, assemble layouts, run seven calculators, and wrangle your stash before the rotary cutter touches fabric.
Build quilt layouts on a tactile canvas. Customize grid size, block arrangement, and colors.
Design and save individual blocks on a visual grid. Build a personal library of patterns.
Yardage, backing, batting, binding, borders, on-point, and cut list — every number, done for you.
Extract palettes from photos. Browse a color library and apply it across your design.
Catalog your fabric with photos, colors, dimensions, and quantities. Never buy duplicates.
Save your own blocks alongside the built-in templates. Pull them into any quilt layout.
Favorite blocks, quilts, community posts, and shops. One home for inspiration, cloud-synced.
An embroidery workspace with placement and color management, a photo-to-palette tool, a lightbox tracer, and personal libraries for every design file you collect.
Place, size, and color-manage your designs on an embroidery canvas before you stitch.
Extract dominant colors from any photo and save the palette to your design library.
Turn your phone screen into a lightbox — trace designs cleanly onto fabric.
Organize your embroidery design files with previews and tags, synced across devices.
Pick from your saved fabric stash or a color library to dress your design.
Bookmark designs and palettes. Everything syncs, so your library is waiting on every device.
Every response in the Helper Hub is shaped by quilters, embroiderers, and sewing teachers we trust — so you get guidance that actually reflects how experienced makers solve problems.
A guided flow for common quilting and embroidery problems — tension, stitch issues, thread breaks, and more.
Type any quilting or embroidery question and get a reliable, jargon-free answer drawn from vetted sources.
Questions aren't stored. Every session starts clean — ask freely without cluttering a feed or history.
Discover verified local craft shops on a map, follow their announcements and events, and share finished projects with a community of real makers.
Browse verified local craft shops on a map with contact info, hours, and details.
Official announcements, promos, new arrivals, and events from the shops you follow.
Post finished projects with photos, collect hearts, and comment on others' work.
Topic-based discussion boards organized by shop. Ask, answer, and talk craft.
Know a great local shop that's missing? Suggest it and we'll review for the directory.
Real-time alerts when shops you follow post updates, or when your Show & Tell gets love.
No more juggling a thread app, a calculator app, a troubleshooter, and a notebook. Everything lives in one warm, crafted place.
| Feature | Makerly | Scattered apps | Paper + Google |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quilt & block designer | ✓ Built in | Separate app | Graph paper |
| Seven fabric calculators | ✓ All in one | One-trick apps | Mental math |
| Color from image (palette extract) | ✓ Built in | Separate app | — |
| Expert-curated Helper Hub | ✓ Guided fix | — | YouTube rabbit hole |
| Fabric stash tracking | ✓ Photos + tags | Spreadsheet | Memory |
| Local shop directory & feed | ✓ Map + events | Word of mouth | |
| Show & Tell community | ✓ In-app | Guild meetings | |
| Cross-device cloud sync | ✓ Everything | Rare | — |