Orange Peel QAL Finished!

I finished up my Orange Peel quilt last week that I had been working on this summer here and there (Previous post).  I started it back when Jess at Quilty Habit announced an Orange Peel Quilt A Long.  SInce this summer I had been on a scrap kick where I wanted to purge and use as much as my scrap stash as possible I figured this was another great use.  I am so happy with how it turned out.

I am in love with the scrappiness of it.  It is full of floral prints that I would not generally use, but I had collected them from my LQS's scrap bin and they went so well together.  I added some scraps of low volume prints that I had to settle the business a bit,

Some of the orange peels are appliqued with decorative stitches and some are attached with the quilting.  I used the fusible method to hold them on until I was able to stitch them down.

There is a lot of quilting on this little quilt. but I feel it is really fun.

There is only one complete orange peel circle in the entire quilt.  It just happened that I filled in other places with pieced blocks, half square triangles, and solid blocks.  

The back is also pieced from the left over scraps.  It felt so good to use so much from my scrap stash!

To finish the look, what is better than a scrappy binding?  I seriously love how this one turned out.

Orange Peel Baby Quilt
31.5" x  36"
Cotton fabrics
Pellon Cotton batting
Machine pieced and free motion quilted by me

Check out the other great projects that are linked up on Jess's blog!