In this video, I put Artificial Intelligence to the test and ask a question that’s been floating around everywhere lately: can AI actually design a quilt? I try a few different prompts in Google Gemini—starting with a simple four patch concept—and while it can talk quilting math (like seam allowance shrinkage) and spit out basic layout ideas, the “design” side is pretty underwhelming. When I ask for an image, it looks impressive at first glance… until you zoom in and the blocks start melting at the edges in that very AI-generated way. Next I push it harder with the O Susanna block (one I know well), and that’s where things really fall apart: the image it generates doesn’t match the block, and some of the cutting/math suggestions are just plain wrong. I also upload a photo of my own Three Course Meal table runner to see if it can reverse-engineer instructions—and it gives a total fail of a measurement that can’t possibly work. The most promising moment comes when I upload a vacation photo (Peggy’s Cove lighthouse) and ask about foundation paper piecing. It doesn’t hand me a printable pattern, but it does a surprisingly helpful job simplifying the image into sections and giving me a starting point. My takeaway: AI has a few useful quilting-adjacent ideas, but we absolutely still need human designers (and quilters) to make patterns that actually work.