How to Make a Garden of Eden Art Quilt

Materials Needed:

• 1/4-yard of medium rainbow cotton fabric
• 1/2-yard of rich rainbow cotton fabric
• 2 yards of fusible web
• 15-by-17-inch piece of cotton batting
• 15-by-17-inch piece of quilt backing fabric
• thread for machine quilting

• iron
• decorative rotary cutter blade: wave, scallop or deckle
• fine point black marker or lead pencil
• scissors
• sewing machine
• needle appropriate for use with decorative threads

Fuse Cotton Fabrics

Fuse the cotton fabrics with fusible web, following the directions that came with the fusible web. Let the fabrics cool.

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Remove and Save Release Paper

Remove the release paper (attached to the fusible web) from the fabrics and save the paper in whole sheets. Note: Release paper can be reused multiple times.

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Cut Out Fabric

Center the batting on top of the backing fabric to make the quilt sandwich. Cut out an 8-by-16-inch rectangle from the medium rainbow fabric for the sky. Cut out a 7-by-16-inch rectangle from the red/orange section of the rich rainbow fabric for the ground.