I finally finished the Plain Spoken quilt I pieced together in February and I have Kim to thank. After seeing her stunning p.s. top for the Modern Quilt-Along I actually turned around and took another look at the quilt that has been hanging over the back of my sewing table chair for 8 months. I just love the bright rich colors Kim used for hers and was wishing I'd gone brighter on mine. Oh, yeah I did. I remember now -- I love these colors! Funny thing is I've been working on a quilt design to use some of my folky prints and the solid colors I wanted to use were a mustard yellow and a dark dark blue/gray. Oh yeah, those colors are right here. You know when you crave certain foods because your body isn't getting enough of a certain vitamin or something. That's what this was like. I never got my mustard/gray fix and was planning new projects to sate that craving. Now I'm all set and can put that other project on the backburner and start working on my quilt for the Modern Quilt-Along, "Book Club".
The quilting came out ok. Nowhere near as beautiful as the tiny little perfect waves I saw on this same quilt pattern at the FunQuilts studio when I took my class, but ok. It's so difficult to quilt a big project on a home sewing machine that I'm always happy that it turned out at all. This pattern was funny because as I was yanking and pulling the quilt from side to side trying to make those turns I could feel myself making this crazy face -- leaning my head to the side and grinding my top teeth back and forth over my bottom teeth. Too bad I couldn't set up the camera to capture that for SPT!
So I had one little snafu (of course). When you leave a project for 8 months you kind of forget where you left off. I remembered I'd bought thread for the quilting, but I didn't remember I'd bought 2 different grays. So of course, half the quilt is quilted in dark gray, the other half in light. Sweet!
