Three-Dimensional Art Quilts

9. Cut your first template from the freezer paper with a craft knife (figure E). Don't worry about not cutting perfectly. The background adds a design element when it peeks through.

10. Choose a value of fabric that matches the value letter on your pattern.

12. Replace the template into that perfect spot on the (sky) fabric and pin it in place (figure G).

13. Rough cut the fabric about 1/4 inch away from the template (figure H).

14. Cut a piece of my 'Misty-White®' or 'Misty-Black®". Fuse about the same size as the fabric (figure I).

15. Now you have an "uncut sandwich", which is:

• (a) the fuse on the bottom
• (b) the fabric face up in the middle
• (c) the freezer paper on top, shiny side down

17. Slide the lightly fused sandwich onto a cutting matt, use a rotary cutter to trim the sandwich to the edge of the freezer paper. No seam allowance necessary. This is the "cut sandwich"(figure K).

18. Peel off the template and replace and tape-tack it in place on the freezer paper sheet. Cut each template and complete one sandwich at a time. Pace the sandwich into the correlating numbered spot on the background (figure L). Replace the freezer paper template onto the freezer paper master with tape so that you can audition the next piece when it is cut out. This is also helpful when locating a template later if you chose to change a fabric selection.

19. Repeat this sandwich technique with each template until done.