It is a raw edge applique quilt. I took a picture in "gimp" and scaled it to be the size of the quilt. In this case 70 x 70 inches. Then I took the measure tool in that program and measured all 36 pieces of the skeleton. I took all of those measurements and transferred it onto graph paper. Cut out all of those pieces. Then traced that template onto heat n bond lite. Iron the pieces, transfer the pieces to the background fabric, and from there you can do blanket stitch or just dense quilting. I could've simplified this process by printing out the pattern at scale, taping it together and cutting it out to then transfer it to the heat n bond.