# Appliquéd Orange Peel

## **Appliquéd** Orange Peel Block Unit in PreQuilt For an **appliquéd Orange Peel**, construct your block as you would sew it - with a larger background fabric and a smaller orange peel shape on top.

*** ### YouTube Video *Coming soon...* *** ### Help Guide 1. Click on the **BLOCKS tab** on the left side control panel.

2. Click on the **Make Custom Block** button.

3. The **Block Editor panel** will slide out and overtake your screen. My block is set to 12" x 12" finished, but it doesn't matter, the next steps will work for all sized blocks. 4. Set your grid guidelines by changing the number for the horizontal and vertical units. * I'll set my gridlines to 8 horizontal and 8 vertical units. I want my Orange Peel to be centered in each of the block units.

5. Click on the **square shape** (

) from the central control panel. It will be our background fabric behind the circle.

6. **Move** the new square block unit so it is in the top left corner of the quilt block.

7. To manipulate the square to enlarge it, **grab** the square on one of the corners of the square and **drag** it until the square fills the height and width of 4 grid spaces. * Note: If the snap to grid is turned on (default) then the shape will automatically fill the grid space.

8. Click on the **orange peel shape** (

) from the central control panel.

9. Click on the **Link button** for a different fabric link (so that there are now 2 different fabrics being used). In this example, I am using Fabric Link B.

10. **Move** the orange peel piece into the center top left right corner of the square.

11. To manipulate the orange peel to enlarge it, **grab** the square on the bottom right corner of the bounding box around the orange peel and **drag** it until the bottom right corner of the orange peel fills the height and width of 2 grid spaces.

12. **Clone, rotate** and **move** 3 more Orange Peel block units to complete the quilt block. If you'd like, you can add and use additional Fabric Links.