- 1). Mark the Celtic knot design on the quilt top using a perforated template you've purchased at a crafts, fabric or quilting store. This can be a flat sheet of plastic of a cream-colored oaktag paper similar to card stock. The sheet has holes punched out at regular intervals along a stitching or placement line. Follow the line of holes with either a piece of quilter's chalk or a bag of pounce, a powdered form of chalk that is bounced up and down on the template, leaving small dots of color on the fabric beneath it.
- 2). Place bias-cut pieces of fabric strips on the markings you made with the template and chalk or pounce. Turn under their raw edges and secure the applique strips with the pins.
- 3). Double check the positions of the strips. The points where the strips cross over one another at the knot's intersections must be in the correct sequence for accurate results.
- 4). Remove a pin and use the fabric glue stick on the wrong sides of a bias strip to secure it to the quilt's base fabric. Replace the pin to keep the strip in the right position until the glue dries. If you're making several appliqued blocks or your knot design is large, glue down all the strips before you start stitching them.
- 5). Stitch the applique pieces to the quilt top by quilting along their edges. Alternatively, work decorative embroidery stitches such as blanket stitch along the applique edges to secure them.
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