I completed the peacock fabric quilt top. You notice I emphasized “top” because I’ve dropped this off at the longarm quilter. She will create the quilt sandwich and use a quilting machine to quilt the sandwich. The quilt is too large for me to do the quilting myself. This might be the largest quilt I’ll ever make. . .

I’ve begun a new quilt; the block is called “orange peel”. I’ve been wanting to do a curved block for a while, so here it is! According to most sources, the orange peel block was introduced back in the late 1800s and like most things, comes in and out of fashion.

Here’s my inspiration quilt and then the fabric (both below) I’ll be using. The blue fabric is called ombre and moves from dark blue to light blue; I loved the picture on the Fabric.com website and crossed my fingers that the fabric would match the picture — it does and I think it will work out wonderfully. I’ll be using a medium blue to set off the orange peels.