Orange Peel Quilt Progress

I finally had some time today to sit down and work on Libby's orange peel quilt. I've been dilly-dallying around with the prep work, so I pushed through and finished getting all the peels and fusible interfacing prepped. I traced the peel pattern 21 times on each of the remaining 10 fabrics (I already did two of them before) and did a rough cut around each peel. Then I cut 42 - 5 1/2" strips of interfacing. Now I will be able to sew the interfacing and peels together, flip them, iron them and voila...peels with fusible interfacing. This will make life much easier when I go to blanket stitch around the peels because I will be able to iron them onto the white backing blocks and they will stay in place. I also did not want to have raw edges on the peels, so sewing them together with the fusible interfacing solves that issue as well. 


Here is my original design with all the fabric calculations:

All the peels are traced and ready for interfacing:

I finished a few more peels after the prep work was done. I probably have about 54 peels done now. Here's a preview of what the quilt will eventually end up looking like:

Tomorrow more peels will be completed...