Prism99

Right. You use that template to cut out your pink, blue and white pieces from fabric. This is one of the things that makes this pattern more difficult -- the fact that you need a template in order to cut out the fabric pieces. What you might want to do is cut this template (Template A) out of freezer paper too. You can iron the template copies to one of the fabrics, stack the fabrics, then cut perhaps 3 layers at a time following the outer lines. You don't have to do it this way, though. The easier way would be to measure the template from one side to the opposite side, cut strips of fabric to that dimension, then lay the template on your strip to cut the other two sides.

If you have not cut out your pieces yet, I ***strongly*** recommend that you heavily starch the flannel first. I use a 1:1 solution of Sta-Flo liquid laundry starch and water, "paint" this solution onto the yardage using a large wall painting brush, toss in dryer, then iron with steam. This makes the flannel much more stable so that you get accurate cuts and so the bias edges don't stretch while you are handling them. Even spray starch would help, although it will not give you nearly as much stability as heavy starch will.

Anyway, once you have your flannel pieces cut out, you iron the freezer paper templates from Template D to the wrong side of the flannel pieces following the diagram (in other words, Template D is not placed dead center in the fabric piece; it is placed off-center). The purpose of this freezer paper is to stabilize the flannel while you sew.

I don't think I've seen a more complicated raggy quilt pattern than this one!