Moda Fabrics Sweet Baby Flannel Quilt - Downloadable PDF

Moda Fabrics Sweet Baby Flannel Quilt – Free Downloadable PDF Pattern Summary

The Moda Fabrics Sweet Baby Flannel Quilt is a charming, cozy quilted baby blanket designed by Moda Fabrics and available as a free downloadable PDF. The finished quilt measures a generous 45" x 45", making it an ideal size for a baby quilt, lap throw, or crib covering. Rated as an intermediate difficulty project, this pattern is well-suited for quilters who are comfortable with basic patchwork construction and are ready to tackle a classic, structured block design.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a square baby quilt measuring 45" x 45" constructed from 25 Churn Dash blocks. The Churn Dash is a beloved traditional quilt block that creates a bold, graphic design through the interplay of half-square triangles, rectangular strip units, and a central square. When repeated across the quilt top, these blocks form a visually engaging, rhythmic pattern that is both timeless and eye-catching. The use of soft flannel fabrics gives the finished quilt a warm, tactile quality that is especially suited to babies and young children.

Techniques Used

• Churn Dash block construction – a traditional quilt block technique combining half-square triangles and strip-pieced units around a central square
• Half-square triangle (HST) construction – cutting squares diagonally and joining contrasting fabrics to create triangular units, then trimming to a precise 3½" x 3½" finished size
• Strip piecing – joining long strips of fabric before cutting them into smaller units, an efficient method that improves accuracy and saves time
• Row-by-row assembly – sewing completed blocks together in rows, then joining the rows with seams pressed open for a flat, professional finish
• Layering, quilting, and binding – the pattern instructs quilters to layer the quilt top, batting, and backing before quilting and finishing with a straight-grain binding sewn end-to-end
• Pressing technique – seams are pressed in the direction indicated by arrows in the pattern diagrams, with final row seams pressed open for reduced bulk

Stitches and Construction Details

• ¼" seam allowance is used throughout the entire pattern, which is the standard for quilting and critical for accurate block sizing
• Half-square triangles are constructed by cutting 4" squares in half on the diagonal, yielding triangles that are then sewn together and trimmed to 3½" x 3½"
• Strip sets are assembled from 2" x 10" strips of both the Layer Cake fabric and background fabric, then cut into 3½"-wide units to form the side elements of each Churn Dash block
• Each block is assembled by joining 4 HSTs, 4 strip-pieced units, and 1 center square, with the center joined first before completing the full block
• The binding is constructed from five 2½" x width-of-fabric strips sewn end-to-end

Block Breakdown – Churn Dash

The Churn Dash block is the sole block design used in this quilt, repeated 25 times to complete the quilt top. Each block is made from one Layer Cake square (a pre-cut 10" square) paired with coordinating background fabric. The construction of each individual block involves:

• Cutting a 4" x 10" strip from the Layer Cake, then sub-cutting into two 4" squares, each cut diagonally to yield 4 half-square triangles
• Cutting two 2" x 10" strips from the Layer Cake for the strip-pieced side units
• Joining each Layer Cake strip with a matching 2" x 10" background strip to make two strip sets, then cutting four 3½"-wide units from those strip sets
• Assembling the block with the HSTs at the corners, the strip units along the sides, and a