Tutorial – Moda Love Quilt

Today I’m sharing a tutorial called Moda Love from April Rosenthal.  I don’t imagine that there are many quilters that haven’t used Moda fabrics, and if you’ve used them you love them.  April made the quilt with her at-that-time new fabric line called Best.Day.Ever!  That is just the best name for a fabric line.

As you can see from the picture above, the center is a star.  This quilt is a square design. tApril shares a .pdf pattern in the link above in three different sizes:  72 x 72, 32 x 32, and 12 x 12.  Each of these sizes use a precut – layer cake, charm pack and mini-charm respectively.

First you must select the size quilt you wish to make.  After that, it is then time to make a few half-square triangles.  The best part is that you only need 36 of them!  Here is a closeup of the layout.

Moda Love Layout:

I’m sure you can see it would be simple to make the quilt bigger by adding a row of the background fabrics all around.  That would not solve the squareness issue.  Here is a shot of the center square, the quilting and a closeup of the fabrics:

Look at all that quilty goodness, and the colors she used – does it make you want one of your own?!  I know there are several of you who do not like square quilts (like me).  Would you be willing to share any ideas you have for making this quilt and un-squaring it in the comments below?  I think this might just be one that baby Dominic needs.

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