Yesterday, I spoke about the gorgeous Banyan Batiks Jungle Rose Cool fabricĀ and showed an image of the finished quilt. Today, I’m discussing cutting and preparing the fabric.

What’s really neat about batik fabric is that it doesn’t fray as easy as other types of cotton quilting fabric. Because of this fact, I planned this quilt with raw edge applique and a quick and easy quilting method in mind. Also, there’s typically no wrong or right side with batiks and this makes it easy to piece because you don’t have to worry about right sides ...

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