Moda Fabrics Latitude Quilt - Downloadable PDF

Moda Fabrics Latitude Quilt Pattern Summary

The Moda Fabrics Latitude Quilt is a striking 70" x 70" square quilt featuring a bold heart motif as its central design element. This free downloadable PDF pattern from Moda Fabrics is rated intermediate in difficulty, making it an excellent project for quilters who are comfortable with precise cutting and geometric piecing but are ready to take on a more visually dramatic composition.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a large, finished quilt measuring 70 inches by 70 inches. The design centers on a prominent heart shape constructed from pieced triangles set against a clean, directional background fabric. The overall effect is graphic and modern, consistent with the aesthetic sensibility of the Moda Fabrics design house. The heart is built from carefully arranged quarter-square triangles cut from the featured Latitude fabric collection, creating a dynamic, multi-toned heart that draws the eye to the center of the quilt.

Featured Fabrics and Materials

This pattern is designed specifically around the Moda Fabrics Latitude collection. The required materials include:

• Latitude Layer Cake 27250LC — one full Layer Cake containing 42 pre-cut 10" squares, used for the heart piecing
• Background fabric (directional) — 3¾ yards of Whispers Muslin Mates (33136 16), providing the clean, open negative space that frames the heart
• Heart & Binding One — 5/8 yard of Latitude 27250 281 in red
• Heart & Binding Two — 5/8 yard of Latitude 27250 259 in red, offering a second coordinating red tone for both the heart piecing and a two-option binding
• Backing fabric — 4⅛ yards to complete the quilt sandwich

No yarn, needles, or crochet hooks are involved — this is a quilting project requiring standard quilting tools including a rotary cutter, cutting mat, quilting ruler, sewing machine, and iron for precise piecing and pressing.

Cutting Techniques

Accurate cutting is essential to this pattern's success. The primary cutting technique used throughout is the creation of quarter-square triangles (QST), which form the building blocks of the heart motif. Key cutting steps include:

• From each of the 42 Latitude Layer Cake squares, cut one 6¼" square, then cut it twice on the diagonal to yield 4 quarter-square triangles per square — producing a large pool of piecing units
• From each of the two red yardages (Heart & Binding One and Two), cut one 6¼" x width of fabric strip, then sub-cut into three 6¼" squares, each cut twice on the diagonal to make 12 additional red quarter-square triangles — these supplement the Layer Cake triangles when assembling the heart, with some extras remaining
• From the Whispers Muslin Mates background, cut one 40½" x length of fabric strip, then sub-cut into several large background pieces including a 26½" x 40½" rectangle, a 4½" x 40½" rectangle, a 70½" x 30½" rectangle, a 40½" x 5½" rectangle, and a 20⅞" square cut once on the diagonal to create large setting triangles
• For binding, cut 4 strips of 2½" x width of fabric from each of the two red fabrics, yielding 8 binding strips total — giving the maker the choice of two coordinating red binding options

Piecing and Construction Techniques

The construction of this quilt relies on geometric triangle piecing, a hallmark of intermediate-level quilting. Quarter-square triangles are among the most versatile units in quilting, and assembling them accurately requires careful attention to bias edges, which can