Fresh Baked. Doesn’t that make you think of the aroma of baking pies and bread, brownies and cookies? Can you smell the aroma of fresh baked pumpkin orange bread in this photo? It is my original recipe, but we’ll get to that at the end of this post. Read on for a long and picture heavy post with two projects today! Don’t forget to visit the sponsor for each post and answer the question of the day to enter the drawing. New subscribers, please review the rules on the Autumn Jubilee Rules and Notices page.
Today’s project begins with making a Fresh Baked basket liner. Start by embroidering a band on background fabric with the words “Fresh Baked”. You can do this with an embroidery hoop and your embroidery machine, on a straight strip of fabric if your machine has lettering capability, or by hand with crewel embroidery. Make sure your embroidery strip is at least 12-inches side to side. This will allow the strip to be placed with enough fabric below to make a nice corner. This will make sense as we go along.
Cut two pieces of fabric 18-inches square. I used the pear prints from the Benartex Harvest Festival line for mine. Lay the strip over the corner of one of your squares and determine the best place for it where the sides overhang the print by a smidgen. Lay your cutting ruler over the strip by 1/4-inch. That will be your cutting line. Carefully remove the strip and cut the square across the diagonal.
Insert the band into the opening created.
Sew it in.
Using a long straight ruler, trim the excess on the side.
Then trim the other side.
Place the Fresh Baked square right sides together with a second square and sew around the edge, leaving an opening for turning.
Clip the corners, then turn right side out. Use a chopstick or something similar to push the corners out sharply.
Load your sewing machine with a specialty thread. I love the shimmer of this metallic gold, but you can use rayon or whatever suits your fancy and looks good with your fabric.
Next, test out the stitches you have available until you find one you like. Even utility stitches look wonderful done in metallic or shiny rayon thread.
As you are stitching your test bit, make note of the right-most point of the design on the presser foot. Here, my machine goes to the edge of the clear insert on the foot for my selected stitch.
Then, when you do the decorative stitching around the edge of the basket liner, you’ll know where to place the edge of the fabric to get the decorative stitching near the edge.
Stitch up to the edge, leaving the needle again in the right-most point to pivot.
Placed in a 10-inch round basket, the corners hang over, showing the Fresh Baked embroidery. It gives enough to fold the corners over the fresh baked dinner rolls you might have for a holiday meal.
Now we need to have something special to give with it. Certainly, you can just bake my Pumpkin Orange Bread, or your favorite fall specialty. But this is a Mason Jar themed month, so I did something special for you.
I have re-worked my Pumpkin Orange Bread into a mix for you to give to your friends. If you have a jar large enough (5 cups), you can put all the dry ingredients together, then add a can of pumpkin and an orange.
But those are hard to find. So, instead, you can use a 3-cup jar for the flour, spices and leavening, and a 2-cup jar for the sugars. I added squares of pumpkin fabric to the jars to add some color and reflect the flavor of the mix.
This downloadable pdf will give you the instructions on how to do the mix, along with printable tags that you can attach to tell your recipient how to bake the bread. Print the instructions on paper, cut out and attach to the jar with a ribbon.
Download the pdf, click on – Pumpkin Orange Bread Mix
Today, Fat Quarter Shop is giving away a gift certificate worth $50!!! You can find a lot of fabulous fall themed and pumpkin fabrics for your basket liners there. Check out Today’s Flash Sale. This month get 20% off the Basic of the Month Thatched by Robin Pickens for Moda, 30% Off the Notions of the Month from Gutermann, Patterns of the Month by V and Co Patterns, and see the Precuts of the Week. Today, visit Fat Quarter Shop, and check out What’s New. Then leave a comment answering the question, which bundle or notion would you most like to sew with?
PS – On Fat Quarter Shop’s Jolly Jabber blog today, there is a really cute organizing tray tutorial, plus another giveaway of a Peachy Keen Layer Cake.
Amazing deals today only for Amazon Prime in October on Kitchen and Home!
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From My Carolina Home 
I’m a batik kind of girl and love the new bundle “Give Thanks” by Hoffman fabrics.
I would love the Blueberry Delight Fat Quarter Bundle
Bunny Hill Designs for Moda Fabrics – these blues are so beautiful! I see a really nice quilt for a summer at the beach in the future, perhaps as a christmas present?
I have really gotten into fabric with dots lately. There are so many great bundles out there it will be hard to pick just one. They are all yelling “pick me!!”
I would love to get the Dawn on the Prairie fat quarter bundle. I love the colors and designs.
The Give Thanks Batik bundle is stunning…great fall colors
Blueberry Delight is on my list! I want to make a two tone quilt and theseeiuld be great!
Your pumpkin bread recipe looks great, Carole–I love clean recipes that can be put in a jar and gifted!!! And don’t we all love Thatched basics!
So much to look at on the Fat Quarter Shop site. I liked the Autumn Bag Shepherd Bush Buttons. Nice Fall accents for wool work! I have made the pumpkin bread from your recipe and it is very yummy. My husband really liked it, too! So many things to do for AJ!
I love blue/green, so I’d like to sew something with ‘Shoreline.’ Thanks for the giveaway. I’ll try out your pumpkin bread.
I noticed peachy keen solids first and loved them.
Then I noticed the FQ bundle that coordinates!!! So pretty.
I love the new line from Corey Yoder – Peachy Keen. I would love to sew something up with this fabric line.
I really like the Blueberry Delight bundle by Bunny Hill. The blue and white fabric looks so fresh and pretty. I would love to sew with that fabric.
I’m drawn to the Berry Delicious Batik fat quarter bundle. Yes on trying that pumpkin bread recipe too!
Adding orange zest to the pumpkin bread sounds good. I like the reds of Rouge Chantilly Chateau de Chantilly.
Thanks for a wonderful idea for a pumpkin bread giveaway. I will be needing an autumnal hostess gift next month and this is a wonderful idea, especially if accompanied by a cute basket with an autumnal napkin (I don’t think I’ll be making the adorable basket liner, unfortunately!)
LOL, I know you don’t sew, Jeanie!
I love your pumpkin orange bread & having it broken into parts for gifting is fabulous – share the love! Fat Quarter Shop is the best on-line shop! I’m never disappointed. They have the most accurate & fastest shipping department around.
Not Quite White Prisma roll up would be such a fun background fabric choice for a new fall or winter quilt! So many great choices on Fat Quarters.
I’m in love with Fig Tree’s Jelly and Jam FQ bundle. Your basket idea for gift giving is wonderful. I am going to give the pumpkin bread recipe a try for sure.
I’m loving the Peachy Keen fabrics. I need to make some basket liners. Cute idea.
I’m looking forward to sewing with Tula Pink’s Besties.
Oh, yummy! I love Pumpkin Bread! Something from the oven is always a welcome gift. I like the idea of gifting a kit which will include the “gift” of the aroma of the bread baking.
Fat Quarter Shop has the most wonderful things! Under What’s New I’d have to pick the 2023 Spooky Box Limited Edition Mystery Quilting Box (A Fat Quarter Shop Exclusive). It would be fun to see all the goodies inside.
Thank you to Fat Quarter Shop for being such a great sponsor.
I love the Harvest Wishes bundle! I also love the Fat Quarter Shop!
The bread basket liner could really dress up a gift. I have a friend who is gluten free and I can make her a gf version using the measure-for-measure flour.
Love the selection at the Fat Quarter Shop. My favorite notions were the mini folded corners, cut rite bind it tool and the Creative Grids 15.5” and 10 degree rulers. Also the clearly perfect slotted rulers.
Realizing the link did not work for Sulky in the last post, I just used my browser to get to their site and picked out the Lucky You and Earth Magick 12 wt threads…perfect for embellishment! The Sulky link worked perfectly this time.
You’ve been busy! Appreciate the time and energy it takes to offer us the how to and eye candy. I appreciate you Carole.
I am hoping to carve out the time to participate in the projects. They are on my list!
Thank you!!
I love your pumpkin bread recipe and make it every year! I guess it’s time to make sure I have the ingredients. What a fun idea to make it into a Mason jar mix and gift basket! At the Fat Quarter Shop, I loved the Boo Crew 10 Karat Crystals layer cake. It would be fun to have some more Halloween prints in my stash!
I love the Joy FQ bundle preorder by Laundry Basket Quilts. I didn’t know this new line was coming out!
So many great choices in the What’s New section at FQS!
One thing that caught my attention was the Jelly & Jam Fat Quarter Bundle by Fig Tree. I love those colors together!
Your table is so fall festive! I love Fat Quarter Shop and am a regular customer. I’ve fallen in love with Lori Holt and they have the best selection of items! I’ve looked at the What’s New Notions and have picked out two that I’d like to use: The Lori Holt Crazy Quilt papers. A crazy quilt would be a great way to use up all those LH scraps I have! But, what I need the most is Bohn 500 Count Super Fine Sewing Pins. I occasionally need to alter garments and I’ve long used up my shorter sewing pins. It is difficult to use my quilting pins to hem pants!
The basket liner is really a cute idea….
And YES I can smell that pumpkin orange bread from here !!
I love the “I believe in angels “ fabric bundles ..
Great projects again. The bread sounds yummy
I like the Delivered With Love half yard bundle. There are so many to choose, hard to pick a favorite
Thanks for the fun autumn jubilee
That would make a gift extra special. The liner turned out so well with the embroidery. The ABCXYZ bundle would be really fun to use.
I’d like o do a blue and white quilt with blueberry delight.
I love the peachy keen fabric! Great projects, looking forward to reading your blog!
Your pumpkin orange bread sounds wonderful and a great way to give a gift. At the Fat quarter shop, the stabilizer slap bands sound like a great way to get my stabilizers in order.
My stabilizers are a mess. At the Fat quarter shop, the Stabilizer Slap Bands sound like a great way to get my stabilizers in order.
I like the Quilty as Charged mug, I think I’ll get a few for gifts this year.
I would love to sew projects with the Tea Rose by Lori Holt
I am going to make some pumpkin bread today, this afternoon…
Yesterday I had dental surgery, well, a complicated root canal. I went to a specialist and they treated me like a princess.
Anyway, now I am home and reality is setting in.
I love all of the fatquarter bundles. Mostly Art Gallery fabrics
Fat Quarter shop is one of my favorite online retail shops. They always have good stuff.
Oh the Anne of Green Gables! How lovely!
I love the Blueberry Delight fabric by Bunny Hill! What a cute bread basket liner, and pumpkin bread is my favorite. I’ll be trying your recipe.
I like the “Give Thanks” batik fabrics–they remind me of velvets! The Pumpkin-Orange bread sounds wonderful!
Beautiful basket liner! I just ordered the Bee Vintage layer cake fro FQS to make the layer cake loop throw quilt for my daughter.
Not sure I can leave a message here, as I’ve been having WP problems, but I’m going to give it another try.
You always have excellent ideas and I absolutely love your embroidered towel for a bread basket. Awesome! Right now I’m shopping for blue and green fabric as a great-nephew has asked me to make him his own quilt in his FAV colors.
Yes, it worked! Thank you for your kind words.
I have been lusting after the Quilt Builder Card Deck sets. I would love to have one to plan more original ways to assemble blocks into a top, especially the secondary designs that appear when blocks actually touch each other. Thank you so much for the delightful stream of great Christmas ideas for my stitching sisters.
I love the embroidery addition. Brave girl to use metallic thread! Give Thanks Batiks Fat Quarter Bundle Hoffman Fabrics
Wonderful project and neat jar idea. I would like to use the Rainbow Sherbet fabric.
Carla from Arizona
Carole, your directions for creating each project are so easy to follow…thank you.
The French General Rouge Chantilly bundle has caught my eye for so many of my patterns.
I would love to sew a quilt with the new “Ellie” fabric bundle by Brenda Riddle. She is one of my favorite designers. I’m going to try your pumpkin orange bread.
I would like to sew with the Cool Neutrals Essex Fat Quarter Bundle by
Robert Kaufman Fabrics
I would like the Lakeside by Tonga Batiks bundle. It would work well with our newly repaired home and the theme/ color palette that my husband chose. I call it Coastal Carolina Cottage as it has the colors of the water, sky and land around the coastline. Thanks for wonderful projects.
Connie W.
the Anne of Green Gables fabric really caught my eye
I love rainbow brights, so I would love the Bright Rainbow Prisma Dyes Fat Quarter Bundle by Robert Kaufman Fabrics! I love your basket liner tutorial idea. What a great gift that would make! Thanks so much for all you share.
I’d like to try out the Gutermann cotton hand quilting thread.
Thanks for preparing the tutorial for the bread basket cloth. It’s gorgeous. And your bread looks delicious. (I’ve always said that using pumpkin for anything for pie is a waste of good pumpkin but maybe it would be worth it for your bread.)
Hmmm, Lakeside Tonga Batiks, Shoreline or Jelly and Jam. I just couldn’t make up my mind which one I liked best. And I may have to try the bread as gifts to give away.
I love this project. It adds the perfect touch.
I would love to sew with the August 2023 Low Volume Fat Quarter Bundle
Fat Quarter Shop Exclusive. I love Fat Quarter Shop!
I would love any one of the Moda fat quarter bundles, but might choose Shoreline. Met the designer for Flower Girl at Beginnings, she lives in Anderson, SC. Love the new French General, and Blueberry Delight as well. Jeani McGrath
I’ve been eyeing the Storybook Halloween Fat Quarter Bundle by Rachel Hauer for Free Spirit Fabrics for quite some time. The teal color really sets it apart from other Halloween lines. I love the sketchy lines of the artwork too!
This color is not one I have used before, but I really like the shades of the 1895 Batik Tangerine Sunrise Bali Watercolors. Maybe it spoke to me because of the Fall season and I can picture pumpkins galore.
I am loving the sound of some pumpkin bread and one for gifting! So cute all wrapped up in that napkin! I love the FQS and did not know their Gutermann threads are on sale! I love the Gold Holiday Collection!
i got a sneak preview of ‘english lavendar’ on the blog of an island batik ambassador and simply drooled over it…so that would be my pick….so very pretty!
I would enjoy working with the Ocean 885 batiks fro the Fat Qtr. Shop, such beautiful blues!
Such a great idea to package the pumpkin orange bread as a mix!
Fat Quarter Shop is such a great sponsor to offer the gift certificate. It was a hard choice but the bundle I would like to sew with is Bundle-Up Fat Quarter Bundle
Barb Tourtillotte for Henry Glass Fabrics. Thanks!
The Blue Sew Colorful bundle is calling my name! With that said, I did visit Green Gables last fall – such a sweet memory! Thanks for the chance!
I can’t wait to bake a loaf of the Pumpkin Orange Bread. It sounds delicious. I‘m in love with the Jolly Good Fat Quarter Bundle. Love those colors!!! Thank you for the generous giveaway, Fat Quarter Shop!
I can smell the pumpkin all the way into my kitchen! Enjoy the weather! Chicago is having is 3 days of fall – mostly we go right to snow!
Thanks
Diann from Little Penguin Quilts recommended your Pumpkin Orange Bread during last year’s Jubilee! I’d almost forgotten about it! I need to buy an orange and I’m all set. I check out FQS and really like the counted cross stitch mug patterns from Shannon Christine Designs. Too cute!
Your pumpkin orange bread sounds delicious and I may have to try some. I looked at the Fat Quarter shop and I like the fat quarter bundle of Anne of Green Gables. Thanks for a chance to win.
The pumpkin orange bread practically screams fall! I bet it’s wonderful with either a sweet glaze or toasted with butter. I like the Autumnal Rainbow Thatched Fat Quarter Bundle because I love Robin Pickens’s Thatched fabrics in general.
Oh, that bread sounds soo good! And what a great idea for a gift to bring to a gathering! The first bundle on Fat Quarters site- Kim Diehl Scrappy Fat Quarter Bundle- made me stop in my tracks, I would pick this in a second! I love her colors.
A lovely post, Carole. I’m back after a somewhat absence due to DH’s illness. You always post such inspirational blogs and nice recipes and patterns. I’m back!
Great to hear from you again, Melanie!
Love The Homestead Fat Quarter Bundle.
Love Indigo and cheddar bundle.
The Earthly Greens Fat Quarter Bundle by Kathy Engle for Island Batik would be lovely to sew up some fall-like projects.
Would love the Cool Neutrals Essex FQ bundle. I have a very small stash of those and I seem to be using them more and more!
I used to make pumpkin cookies when my kids were little. I’m not usually a pumpkin fan!
I would have anything that Corey Yoder designs and love her new line, Peachy Keen.
The Tropical Prisma Dyes Batiks Fat Quarter Bundle is especially yummy! I’d love to make a quilt with them!
It’s between Blueberry Delight from Bunny Hill or Camille Roskelley’s Shoreline for me! I love anything blue!
This is such a great gift idea! I don’t have an embroidery machine; however, I’m sure I can try out one of the fancy stitches on my sewing machine to make the “Fresh Baked”. Too cute! Plus, thank you for the yummy recipe!
Sorry, I forgot to choose a fabric – My Summer House!
This is the pretty bundle that caught my eye: Blueberry Delight Fat Quarter Bundle
Bunny Hill Designs for Moda Fabrics
I love the new Hush Hush 3 fabrics! Your Pumpkin Orange Bread looks yummy too!
Oh, my choice to have a “play date” with would be the 2023 Anne of Green Gables fq bundle….I’m a total sucker from green and purple fabrics.
I’m always a sucker for any kind of fabric in blue and white so that Blueberry Delight collection by Bunny Hill Designs is right up my alley.
I’ve already made mini loaves of the Pumpkin Orange Bread and it turned out delicious. I love your recipes.
Awesome, thank you!!
Love this project! I do love the Kaffe Fassett Big Blooms Tool organizer!