Moda Fabrics Spring House Quilt - Downloadable PDF

Moda Fabrics Spring House Quilt – Free Downloadable PDF Pattern Summary

The Spring House Quilt by Moda Fabrics is a cheerful, intermediate-level quilting project that finishes at a generous 55" x 67" — a versatile lap or throw size. This free downloadable PDF pattern is built around the classic and beloved Flying Geese block, arranged to create a lively, structured design with strong visual movement. The pattern is well-suited to quilters who are comfortable with basic piecing and are ready to work with diagonal cuts and specialty rulers.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a single bed-throw or lap quilt measuring 55 inches wide by 67 inches tall. The design is centered on rows or groupings of Flying Geese blocks, a traditional quilt motif in which a large central triangle (the "goose") is flanked by two smaller background triangles (the "sky"). When repeated and arranged in columns or rows, Flying Geese blocks create a strong sense of direction and movement across the quilt surface. The Spring House design uses a coordinated palette drawn from a single Layer Cake™ pack, set against a consistent background fabric, giving the finished quilt a cohesive, fresh, and airy appearance appropriate to its springtime name.

Techniques Used

• Flying Geese construction: Each Flying Geese unit is built from quarter-square triangles cut from the Layer Cake™ squares and half-square triangles cut from the background fabric. This is a traditional piecing method that requires accurate cutting and careful alignment of bias edges.
• Quarter-square triangle cutting: Each 7½" x 7½" square is cut twice diagonally to yield four quarter-square triangles. With 42 Layer Cake™ squares, this produces a total of 168 quarter-square triangles for the goose units.
• Half-square triangle cutting: Background fabric is cut into 4¼" x 4¼" squares, each cut once diagonally to produce half-square triangles. A total of 336 half-square triangles are made this way, providing two sky triangles for each of the 168 Flying Geese units.
• Specialty ruler trimming: A key technique in this pattern is the use of the Fit to be Geese Ruler by Open Gate (6½") (OGR 102) to trim all four sides of each completed Flying Geese block. The ruler's roof line is aligned along the block seams, and the top and right side of each block are trimmed for precise, consistent sizing. This step is essential for ensuring that all Flying Geese units fit together accurately during final assembly.
• Border attachment: The quilt includes a border, cut from the background yardage, which frames the central Flying Geese design and adds to the overall finished dimensions.
• Binding: A separate binding fabric is used to finish the raw edges of the quilt, a standard final step in quilt construction.

Stitches and Construction Methods

• Straight-stitch piecing: All block assembly is done with standard straight-stitch sewing on a domestic sewing machine, joining triangles along their straight edges with consistent seam allowances.
• Bias edge handling: Because diagonal cuts are central to this pattern, quilters will work frequently with bias edges, which require careful pressing and handling to prevent stretching during piecing.
• Quilting: While the PDF focuses on the piecing instructions, the finished quilt top will require quilting (stitching through the top, batting, and backing layers) either by hand or machine, followed by binding to complete the project.

Materials Required

Fabric

• Flying Geese fabric: 1 Layer Cake™ (SKU 7170LC) — a precut pack of 42 squares measuring 10" x 10", providing all the color and print variety for the goose units.
• Background and Border fabric: 3¼ yards of SKU 9900 200, used for the sky triangles in each Flying Geese block and for the surrounding border.
• Binding fabric: