Moda Fabrics Snowberry Quilt - Downloadable PDF

Moda Fabrics Snowberry Quilt Pattern Summary

The Moda Fabrics Snowberry Quilt is a beautifully structured bed-sized quilt pattern available as a free downloadable PDF. Designed by Moda Fabrics, this intermediate-level quilting project produces a finished quilt measuring 71½" x 79", making it a generous lap or bed quilt. The design is built around two classic quilt block types — the Nine-Patch block and the Snowball block — combined with diagonal setting squares and corner squares to create a dynamic, visually engaging layout. The finished block size for both the Nine-Patch and Snowball blocks is 5¼" x 5¼".

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a single large quilt top with a pieced interior and an outer border, finished with binding. The design relies on the interplay of a cream background fabric, a bold red print fabric, and a collection of blue print fabrics to create the characteristic Snowberry color palette. The combination of Nine-Patch blocks set against Snowball blocks is a time-honored quilting tradition that creates the illusion of curved shapes and circular medallions without any curved cutting or sewing — making it approachable for intermediate quilters who are comfortable with precise strip piecing and block assembly.

Quilt Blocks and Design Elements

Nine-Patch Blocks

The pattern calls for a total of 99 Nine-Patch blocks, though only 90 are required for the quilt top itself. The extra blocks can be used on the quilt back or pieced into a coordinating pillow. Each Nine-Patch block is assembled using the efficient strip piecing method, which involves sewing long strips of fabric together into strip sets before cross-cutting them into segments — a technique that saves significant time compared to cutting and sewing individual squares.

Two types of strip sets are constructed:

• Blue-Cream-Blue strip sets: Two blue-print strips flanking one cream background strip, pressed toward the blue print.
• Cream-Blue-Cream strip sets: Two cream background strips flanking one blue-print strip, pressed toward the blue print.

Each Nine-Patch block is assembled by joining two Blue-Cream-Blue segments and one Cream-Blue-Cream segment, creating the classic alternating nine-square grid. For visual variety, the pattern uses strips from Fabrics 4 through 12 — a range of different blue prints — so that no two Nine-Patch blocks are identical. This scrappy approach is characteristic of many Moda Fabrics patterns and adds richness and depth to the finished quilt.

Snowball Blocks

The Snowball blocks are cut from Fabric 2 (Red) as 5¾" x 5¾" squares, with a total of 72 Snowball blocks required. The Snowball block technique typically involves sewing small corner squares at the corners of a larger square and pressing them back to create the appearance of a rounded, circular shape — a classic quilting technique that pairs beautifully with Nine-Patch blocks in a traditional setting.

Setting Squares and Corner Squares

The quilt layout also incorporates setting squares and corner squares cut from the red fabric to complete the on-point or alternating block arrangement:

• 17 setting squares are cut from 6" x 6" red squares, each cut once diagonally to yield half-square triangles used as setting triangles along the edges of the quilt.
• Corner squares are cut from 5" x 5" red squares, also cut once diagonally, to finish the four corners of the quilt layout cleanly.

Techniques Used

• Strip piecing: The primary construction method for the Nine-Patch blocks, using long and short strip sets (21" and 10½" lengths) that are sewn, pressed, and cross-cut into segments for efficient assembly.
• Diagonal seam joining: Used when joining border strips end-to-end to create continuous lengths for the outer border, minimizing bulk and creating a