# Glossary

## <mark style="color:blue;">PreQuilt Glossary</mark>

We understand it's always difficult to learn something new. There's always a learning curve, a new vocabulary to learn. That's where we hope this glossary will come in handy!

Below, you'll find a very visually oriented glossary of all the terms we use regularly in this PreQuilt Help Guide and in our online YouTube tutorial videos.&#x20;

If you find yourself confused because we've forgotten to include one, please don't hesitate to email us at <mark style="color:blue;">**<hello@prequilt.com>**</mark> and we'll be happy to help you out and add it here!

## <mark style="color:blue;">B</mark>

#### <mark style="color:blue;">**Block Editor**</mark>

The **Block Editor** is a separate panel that is used for creating or editing quilt blocks. Within the editor, create and design custom quilt blocks. You can control the dimensions and use grid lines to help align patch shapes.

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#### <mark style="color:blue;">Block Editor Canvas</mark>

The **Block Editor Canvas** is the area upon which blocks are built and designed. It starts empty (transparent) and shapes can be added onto it to build a quilt block.

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#### <mark style="color:blue;">Block Library</mark>

The PreQuilt **Block Library** (also called **PreQuilt Blocks**) is a collection of common, prebuilt quilt blocks that can you imported into your quilt project. This grab and go resource is meant to help you save time, since you do not need to create everything from scratch.

## <mark style="color:blue;">C</mark>

#### <mark style="color:blue;">**Cell Block**</mark>

We used spreadsheets as a source of inspiration when designing PreQuilt. So, a **cell block** is one of the boxes (or cells) in the quilt. In the image, the cell block is selected, which is indicated by its blue outline around the cell.

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#### <mark style="color:blue;">Clone</mark>

In PreQuilt, **clone** is our term for copy or duplicate. Why did we decide to use this term? The back story is that when we were quite small, we were a bit quirkier. On one of our very early betas, we used an illustration of a sheep as our copy button, and we called it the **Clone** button. Think Dolly circa 1996. Alas, people were confused - why was a sheep here? So we changed the icon, but we kept the terminology.

#### <mark style="color:blue;">Color Tags (see</mark> [*<mark style="color:blue;">Fabric Links</mark>*](https://app.gitbook.com/o/6Fz8qQccLA8HTGr0bdh3/s/PUFswdysHBJDPIJC9xe0/~/changes/268/welcome-to-prequilt/glossary#fabric-links-formerly-color-tags)<mark style="color:blue;">)</mark>

We discontinued the term Color Tags in October 2023. We apolgize for any confusion and for any instances that Color Tag is still being used instead of **Fabric Link**.

#### <mark style="color:blue;">Coloring Page (</mark>*<mark style="color:blue;">also</mark>* <mark style="color:blue;"></mark><mark style="color:blue;">Digital Coloring Page)</mark>

A **coloring page** (also known as **digital coloring page**) is a Market Plan feature that allows your customers to change the colors and fabrics for one of your quilt patterns. This customization only affects their version of your quilt and enables them to preview your quilt pattern in their fabric choices. A call to action button (CTA) directs users to your online store or website to buy the pattern.

#### <mark style="color:blue;">Control Panel</mark>

There are two types of control panels in PreQuilt. There's the **Left-Side Control Panel** that has tabs that expand. To get one to expand, click on the bar. The other tab will collapse.

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And there's the **Center Vertical Control Panel**, which we call the [*<mark style="color:blue;">Toolbar</mark>*](#toolbar) that has buttons. These are quick action buttons that are used often.

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#### <mark style="color:blue;">Cornerstone</mark>

**Cornerstones** are the smaller blocks that are formed when two pieces of sashing cross one another.

## <mark style="color:blue;">D</mark>

#### <mark style="color:blue;">Dashboard</mark>

The **Dashboard** in PreQuilt is main navigation page for all your custom content. There are currently 5 tabs on the dashboard: Quilts, Blocks, Fabric, Fabric Pull, and Add-Ons.

<figure><img src="https://667278489-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FPUFswdysHBJDPIJC9xe0%2Fuploads%2FrH6EMgQnp9THR8yab56I%2FScreen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%201.57.13%20PM.png?alt=media&#x26;token=b4ccaceb-3f73-48e9-ac68-bf5c05ed1808" alt=""><figcaption><p><em>Example of my dashboard</em></p></figcaption></figure>

## <mark style="color:blue;">F</mark>

#### <mark style="color:blue;">Fabric Dashboard</mark>

The **Fabric Dashboard** is a central location to store and organize all your printed fabric swatches. You can use folders to organize your printed fabric swatches.

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#### <mark style="color:blue;">Fabric Links (formerly Color Tags)</mark>

PreQuilt developed **Fabric Links** as a way to associate a color to a quilt block piece or part of a quilt. The action of tagging a block piece with a ***Fabric Link*** links that fabric to that particular block piece. If the fabric of a Fabric Link changes, the fabrics used for all pieces associated with that Fabric Link will change as well. In the example below, the **Fabric Link A** was changed from black to pink.&#x20;

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#### <mark style="color:blue;">Fabric Swatch (also Printed Fabric Swatch)</mark>

A **Fabric Swatch**, also called a **Printed Fabric Swatch**, is a digital image of fabric that can be imported into PreQuilt and applied to block designs in order to preview it. Many fabric manufacturers have digital fabric swatches available to the public on their website.

## <mark style="color:blue;">G</mark>

#### <mark style="color:blue;">Gridlines</mark>

**Gridlines** are light blue guidelines that are only visible while editing or creating a quilt block. There are both horizontal and vertical grid lines that will equally divide the horizontal or vertical space in relation to the number of gridlines selected. In this example, there are 5 horizontal grid lines and 4 vertical gridlines that create equally divided rectangles in the block area.

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## <mark style="color:blue;">O</mark>

#### <mark style="color:blue;">Orphan Blocks</mark>

**Orphan blocks** are leftover or extra blocks that have not been used in a quilt. For a good use case for PreQuilt and your orphan blocks check out:

{% content-ref url="../../prequilt-101/starter-quilts/orphan-block-quilts" %}
[orphan-block-quilts](https://help.prequilt.com/prequilt-101/starter-quilts/orphan-block-quilts)
{% endcontent-ref %}

## <mark style="color:blue;">T</mark>

#### <mark style="color:blue;">Toolbar</mark>

The **Toolbar** is located next to the [*<mark style="color:blue;">Left Side Control Panel</mark>*](#control-panel) is a vertical bar of buttons. These are meant to be quickly accessible buttons for commonly used actions.

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## <mark style="color:blue;">Q</mark>

#### <mark style="color:blue;">Quilt Grid</mark>

The **quilt grid** is the area of space that contains the rows and columns of [*<mark style="color:blue;">cell blocks</mark>*](#cell-block). Currently, there are 3 different quilt grids: rectangular, on-point, and equilateral triangles.


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