Free tool
Colour gets all the attention. Value does all the work. Drop in a photo of your fabric pull and watch the colour drain away — in a few seconds you'll see whether you have a value ladder or a pile of mud.
Your photo never leaves your phone or computer — everything happens right here on the page.
Tap the middle of each fabric — the dashed square shows exactly what gets cut out. Keep it off the paper and table.
What the squint says
Load a photo to start.
Tap a step to see only the fabrics that sit there
Your fabrics, lightest to darkest
Tap each fabric in your photo above — a piece of it lands here, sorted light to dark. Tap a piece here to take it out.
How it works
Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored. The whole thing runs on your own phone or computer.
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Lay your fabrics out, snap one picture, or start with one of the sample pulls.
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Colour drains away to grey, then into ten clean value steps — the same thing your eyes do when you squint across the room.
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If everything bunches in the middle you get told, along with which end of the ladder is missing.
Why value, not colour
Two fabrics can be wildly different colours and still be the same value — put them next to each other and the seam between them disappears. That is the mud zone, and it is the single most common reason a quilt looks flat in a photograph. Sorting by value instead of colour is the whole trick behind the Biscotti Quilt, where a pile of chopped strips turns into something that glows from the centre out.
The Biscotti Quilt masterclass takes this one idea and builds a whole quilt out of it — value sorting, the chop, the design wall, and the maths done for you. $65 CAD, yours forever.
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