- Sew strips of a Christmas print around each of the neutral fabric squares.
Fold each in half, then in half again and press to mark the centers of the neutral squares.
- Apply fusible web to the wrong side of the two red and two green fabrics.
- Using a fine-line permanent-ink, black marker, trace two sets of the poinsettia patterns
from the Pattern Sheet onto the quilter's template plastic material.
Set one aside to use later as a placement guide, and cut the other on the traced lines.
- Reverse each template piece and lay them on the fusible web side of the fabrics; put
pieces for warm petals on warm red and cool petals on cool red. Do the same for the green leaves.
 - Place uncut template in the center of the creased, prepared fabric. Arrange warm and cool reds
alternately on the right and left sides of each flower to show cntrast. A light warm red should lie
next to a dark cool red on each petal. Do the same for the warm and cool greens for the leaves.
Making the edges of each piece match exactly is neither important nor desirable since a tiny
amount of the backgraound fabric showing through gves depth to the finished poinsettia.
- Once you are satisfied with the placement, carefully slide the plastic template out from under arrangement; iron the pieces in place.
Hint: for placement, if you are able to see through your background neutral fabric, you
could slide the tmplate under the fabric and not have to move your pieces later.
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