How To Make An Orange Peel Quilt - Free Quilting Tutorial

We’re celebrating 15 years of patchwork paradise with 15 of our most beloved patterns. This week’s remake is the Orange Peel.

According to legend, the Orange Peel was inspired by the French Marquis de Lafayette. At a banquet celebrating American independence, he sliced an orange into four parts and removed the peels. Those petal-shaped peels caught the eye of a certain quilter. (Thank goodness!) 250 years later, the Orange Peel quilt is still a favorite!

This week, Jenny is using precut Kaffe Fassett fabrics and easy applique to whip up an Orange Peel that would make the marquis proud!

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[sioux]

To make even faster: When you finish cutting out the interfacing petals (I do 10 layers at a time), leave them stacked and use the rotary cutter to make the little slit in the middle of the whole pile at once. It saves you doing them one at a time with scissors.

[yvonnebunce]

Another way to make it easier is don't cut your 10 inch background square. Just fold it in half both directions. You can use your fold lines to place the four orange peels on the 10 inch square. Then you only have ten inch blocks to sew together instead of four-5 inch blocks.

[Happybidr]

This looks like so much fun to make. I’ve been so busy doing taxes I haven’t sewn any quilts since the first of the year. Watching Jenny gets me in the mood again. I love keeping it simple, too. Life is complicated enough.

[rainydaydiva]

Where would we all e w/o MSQC & such talented quilters!? The only tip I have when making an orange peel quilt is, and I’m sure someone else has already mentioned this but, I sew my orange peels onto a 10” square, instead of 5” squares, it takes out the steps of having to sew the, on 5” squares and then having to sew those together. Happy sewing❤

[marywhalen]

Why not just iron 4 peels onto a 10”square of background?

[lisabotkin]

This quilt definitely has that “WOW” factor! 🎉

[tree]

I can barely hear the conversation. I have volume on max.

[melb]

Beautiful quilt. Why is the sound on the newer videos so low? The old videos are fine, but the new I can hardly hear.

[lauradinapoli]

if you want a quicker way to get this same look you could fuse 4 petals on a 10' precut white background. This would give you far fewer seams and only 5 blocks across the top and 7 down

[shellyboyle]

If it helps... I find that I tend to rip the interfacing when using the turning tool. So I use a larger crochet hook. I find I don't push thru nearly as often with the crochet hook

[karenraabis]

This has always been my favorite tutorials of all time. I have to orange peel a small one but still haven’t done it! Gorgeous quilt

[tinkerbell]

This quilt is beautiful! So much easier than it looks. Thanks so much for sharing.

[lisamanning]

Love this pattern, its one of my favs

[karenunderdahl]

Love this quilt, the fabric is so pretty.

[rainieanderson]

This is such a fun pattern! Diagonal ombre, print background and solid peels. Endless possibilities! You could use a 10 in block fold on the diagonal and place the peels on the fold. Stitch in place and sew the larger 10 in blocks together.

[susanmei]

Beautiful quilt.
Honestly, I think if you didn’t cut the 10” square into four pieces, and you laid all the orange peels going in the same slant, I think you could get six out of one 10” square! I haven’t tried it, but I think it might work. Then you could make a bigger quilt.
Also, I was thinking that if you took a little circle and put it right in the center of those four petals it would make a flower! 🌼

[staciefreeman]

Love it, I will make this quilt in the future!

[joyscranfield]

Lovely job ladies! QUESTION...since you've fused your orange peels in place, could you skip the edge stitching & just use a nice quilting motif to hold them permanently in place?

[loriar]

This is a beautiful and simple pattern!! And it would be awesome in a scrappy version.

[sharonk]

If you are quilting the quilt yourself, you don’t have to machine appliqué each square, you can “quilt” the peels down as part of your quilting.