Garden of Eden Art Quilt

Laura Wasilowski features several techniques in her Garden of Eden art quilt including: fuse-tacking, free-cutting, overlapping, collage building, cutting with a decorative rotary cutter blade, fusing on the bias and a transfer method called Shape Shifting.

Materials:

1/4 yard of Rainbow Medium cotton fabric
1/2 yard of Rainbow Rich cotton fabric
2 yards of Wonder Under fusible web
15" x 17" Hobb's Heirloom Premium cotton batting
15" x 17" quilt backing fabric
thread for machine quilting
iron
decorative rotary cutter blade; wave, scallop or deckle
Sharpie fine point marker or lead pencil
scissors
sewing machine

1. Fuse the cotton fabrics with fusible web (figure A). Follow the directions that come with the fusible web. Let the fabrics cool.

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

3. Center the batting on top of the backing fabric to make the quilt sandwich.