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BindCut plans straight-grain binding for rectangular quilts. Here are the questions that come up most, and how to reach a person.
Getting the measurements right
Which fabric width should I enter?
The width you can actually cut a full strip from, after trimming both selvages. Quilting cotton sold as 44 or 45 inches wide is commonly nearer 42 inches usable, and it varies between mills, between bolts of the same fabric, and with whether you prewashed. Lay your fabric out and measure it.
If you enter a wider figure than your fabric really gives you, every strip comes out shorter than planned, so round down rather than up.
Why is the extra length 20 inches?
The binding has to be longer than the quilt's perimeter. The four mitred corners use up length as the strip turns, and the two ends need tails long enough to close the loop neatly. Twenty inches is a comfortable allowance that suits most ways of finishing a binding.
It is one editable number. If you know your own habit for closing a binding, adjust it and watch the strip count respond.
Which strip width should I choose?
That follows from your binding method and how wide you want the finished binding to look. 2½ inches is the common double-fold choice, and you can type any width in range. BindCut uses the cut width you give it, so work out your own cut width from your seam allowance and whether you fold single or double.
Which side is the width?
Either. BindCut works from the perimeter, 2 × (width + height), so the two quilt measurements are interchangeable.
Understanding the plan
Why is the joined length longer than my quilt's perimeter?
Strips come in whole numbers, and each one is limited to the usable width of your fabric, so the total rarely lands exactly on the target. The last strip usually takes you comfortably past it. That surplus becomes your working margin.
Why does one more strip not add a full fabric width?
Each strip has to be joined to the next, and those joins are sewn on a 45 degree diagonal so the seam bulk spreads out. A diagonal seam uses up about one strip width of length. BindCut deducts one strip width for every join, so eight strips carry seven deductions. The working is shown on the result, so you can see where the length went.
Why are "fabric needed" and "buy" different numbers?
Fabric needed is what the strips physically occupy: the number of strips times the cut width. The buy figure is that rounded up to something a shop will cut, the next eighth of a yard or the next 5 cm. In the standard example, 20 inches of fabric becomes 5⁄8 of a yard, or 55 cm.
Shrinkage, squaring-up waste and fussy cutting are not added for you. Add that margin through the extra length or a more cautious usable width, where you can see it.
Inches and centimetres
Switching units converts the measurements you have already entered, so a 60 inch quilt does not turn into a 60 cm quilt. Imperial results are shown as readable fractions, and metric buying suggestions round up to the next 5 cm.
What BindCut covers
Straight-grain binding in crosswise strips, for rectangular quilts. It does not plan bias binding, curved or scalloped edges, backing, borders, batting or block design, and it assumes one binding fabric at one usable width.
Saved plans, sharing and printing
Where are my saved plans kept?
On your iPhone, in BindCut's own storage. There is no account to sign in to and no server holding a copy. They stay through closing and reopening the app.
Do plans sync to my other devices?
No. A plan saved on one iPhone lives on that iPhone. To get a plan somewhere else, share the cut card.
What happens if I delete the app?
Deleting BindCut removes its saved plans too. If you have a device backup that included the app's data, restoring it can bring them back; that is Apple's backup, described on the privacy page. Share or print anything you would be sorry to lose.
Sharing, PDF and printing
Any plan exports as a one-page cut card carrying the measurements, the cutting instructions, the fabric estimate, the assumptions used and the date. It goes out through the standard iOS share and print controls, so it can go to a printer, the Files app, Messages, email or another app. You pick the destination.
Does it need an internet connection?
No. Planning, saving and exporting all happen on the device, and the app works in airplane mode. Only the links to this website need a connection, and they open in your browser.
Purchase and reinstalling
BindCut is a single upfront purchase with every feature included: no subscription and no in-app purchases. Payment, receipts and refunds are handled by Apple, and we never see your payment details. Refund requests go through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. Reinstalling on the same Apple Account does not cost again.
Accessibility
BindCut is built to work at large text sizes and with VoiceOver, and to respect the system settings for contrast and reduced motion. If something is unreadable, unreachable or announced wrongly, please report it with what you were using and what happened.
If a number looks wrong
Please tell us. Send the quilt width and height, the usable fabric width, the strip cut width, the extra length, the units you were in, and the result you got. That is enough to reproduce almost anything, and a wrong calculation in a cutting tool gets looked at first.
Check before you cut
Measure the finished quilt rather than the pattern, measure your own fabric's usable width, and check the plan against the way you like to join and finish a binding before you cut.
Still stuck
Email support@codedrealities.com and describe what happened. A real person reads it.