Breeze: A Finished King Size Orange Peel Quilt

*This quilt is on my Finish A Long Quarter 4 list - here are my original goals. I'm linking up to The Littlest Thistle!*

I only use that title because it's the largest quilt I've ever made, and I'm darn proud of it.

M mom requested an orange peel quilt for her bed (with an overhang) after she saw Scatter. I made it because I really, really love her! Plus, I wanted to give her something great for her birthday. I gave her a quilt last year, too. Go figure. They're a popular commodity around here!

 The color scheme is based off of this print from Katarina Roccella's print, Floret Stains Mulberry, from her Art Gallery line Indelible. My mom had commented on Point Me that she loved that print, so I took out the peach color and based all of my orange peel color choices on it. I made sure to sprinkle bits and pieces of that fabric throughout the quilt!

I pieced this quilt in the style of Scatter - using the stitch and flip orange peel technique and my favorite somewhat-planned improvisational low volume background piecing (as you can see, I'm super technical). As many of you know, I taught these techniques recently in a class at Pennington Quilt Works. My second class, which is modified and shorter, will be at Mid-Atlantic Mod, and the class of 15 is already sold out! I'm so excited!!

The only full orange peel on the quilt is this large one in the middle. All the other pieces are flying off it "in the breeze."

This was the first time I experimented with large peels and small peels. They were fun and I would love to mix sizes again. I definitely need a little break from orange peels, though. :)

I quilted it with wavy lines from end to end, using my walking foot.  It was a lot of quilt to push through my machine! I refrained from lifting weights at the gym that week because my arms were so sore. Hahaha. It was the size of the quilt - it actually flowed through my machine quite easily. I've found that quilting with a good quality flannel backing is just about the same as a quilting cotton backing.

Can you spot the three sizes of peels? There's one baby peel in there!

I pieced the backing of Anna Maria Horner's Pretty Potent flannel. Free Spirit flannel is so well-made and I always enjoy using it for quilt backing. Plus there's a gorgeous design!

This quilt is a behemoth, a monster, whatever you want to call it... it's big. It's 90" x 100" and it contains much of what I had left of my low volume stash! Guess I'll have to stash up... :).

I've written about this quilt otherwise here and here.

It was very well-received by both mom and dad. Yes, my dad is a goofball.

And the faraway shot, because hanging off the deck is the only way to photograph the beast:

Linking up to: Fabric Tuesday @ Quilt Story, Sew Cute Tuesday @ Blossom Heart Quilts, Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation, TGIFF, Crazy Mom Quilts