Orange Peel quilt

A friend of mine was having a baby this summer.

They did not want to know the gender of the baby, so they had picked out a couple of names for 

either a boy or girl.

As we were talking about babies and such, I was hand appliqueing some orange, orange peels blocks together for a quilt of mine.  

She fell in love with the blocks and said, "If we have a little girl we're naming her Clementine."  

I thought the orange peel blocks would be perfect for a little girl named Clementine!

Well, sure enough, they had little Miss Clementine.  

I put together a few orange peel blocks for her baby quilt and this is the result...

I quilted a double bubble design and used a sweet flannel backing.

Welcome the this crazy wonderful world, Miss Clementine.

  

I used this template from Missouri Star Quilt Company for the orange peel shapes.
My background low volume squares are 
cut 6" - finishing at 5 1/2".  
I set the blocks 6 x 6 with the quilt finishing at 33" x 33".

Charm Pack baby quilt tutorial...

My sister-in-law, Carol, asked me to make a baby quilt for a baby shower gift.

 

 

(it was a bright sunny day when I photographed)

 

 

I decided to go very traditional and use some charm packs with lots of pink!

 

 

 

Here's what you'll need:

finished size - 42" x 49"

 

2 charm packs

1 1/4 yards solid

1/2 yard binding

1 1/2 yards backing

 

Cutting:

 

From the solid fabric:

   ~ Cut 5 - 8" squares then cut each of these TWICE diagonally to use for your side triangles.  (yields 20 - you will use 18)

   ~ Cut 2 - 4.5" squares then cut each of these ONCE diagonally to use for the corner triangles.

 

You will use 50 charms squares for the center of the quilt.

The remaining squares you will cut in half for your inner pieced border.

Inner border:  cut 4 - 2 1/2" strips

Outer border:  cut 6 - 2 1/2" strips

 

Sewing:  (you will be sewing diagonal rows)

 

Start with a side triangle and sew it to a charm square.  Add another side triangle to the other side of the charm square.  This is your first DIAGONAL row.

Continue in this manner adding or subtracting charms as you build your rows.  (see 2nd photo for placement)

Add a border of 2 1/2" solid strips to "float" your cute quilt.

Add a border of 2 1/2" cut charms - sew end to end.

Add an outer border of 2 1/2" solid strips.

 

You're finished!  And it's darling!

 

 

 

Sweet flannel backing.

(I love this old water pump & barrel)

 

 

 

Green Denyse Schmidt plaid for binding.

 

 

 

I machine quilted it with double bubbles - makes it look a little puffy!

 

 

Thank you, Danette - my neighbor, for letting me photograph this pink cuteness on your property.

 

baby quilts

I love everything about baby quilts.

I love picking out patterns and fabrics.

I love piecing them.

I love quilting them.

Here are some that my customers made...

Christine, from Rhode Island, made this sweet little pyramid one:

 

I quilted loops within each triangle - each direction.

The backing is just as sweet at the top.

 

Jan, from Florida, made this modern one:

 

I quilted random spaced straight lines in the solid background and looped the patchwork squares.

 

I like how Jan used some strips in the center of the back.

 

I loved this one so much that I made one, too.

 

 

I don't know who will get it - I just had to have one on hand!

I quilted wavy lines and looped the patchwork squares. 

 

 

I used a dot flannel for the back.

Thanks, Jan, for the simple idea - I'll be making more of this one!

 

Denise, from Florida, made this cute critter quilt.

 

The prints are adorable!

I quilted a wood grain all-over pattern.

 

Julie, from California, pieced this patchwork, wonky star quilt for her new grandson.

 

 

I love how it turned out - she wanted simple quilting because she put grey minky on the back.

 

 

Very snuggly!

 

 

Are you working on any baby quilts?