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!
Just wonderful! Colors are the BEST. Feel good checking that project off the list.
hillary! its amazing! the ‘nowhere near perfect waves” are perfect! the colors and overall tone of the quilt is just spot on. great work, as always.
Just so beautiful. And the two thread colors add to its beauty, really. OK, quilt-making time for me.
hillary it’s gorgeous! the colors are perfect. i hope to someday gather the courage to try making a small quilt!
Wow it is beautiful, the mustard, red and grey work wonderfully together.
It’s gorgeous, I love the simple pattern, and those colors are so great!
wow! that is a great quilt, so simple and yet stunning. i love it.
mmmmm
lovely.
DAMN! It’s GORGEOUS! I guess the time away from a project does do a body good.
Did you have a “big idea” behind your colors?
That is exquisitely beautiful.
It’s gorgeous and just in time for fall.
Superb. I am gasping. Excellent work.
Wow, it is gorgeous, really. I love the colors, the stitching, everything, great quilt. Makes me want to sit on your couch.
Awesome! It’s really quite amazing. Nice work!
Hillary that quilt is just BEAUTIFUL!!…Yummy scrummy colours….I can’t stop scrolling back and looking at it!
I know what you mean about getting a fix on certain colours :o)
Thanks so much for sharing.
Anne.
Looks beautiful! You always inspire me to be more adventureous with my quilting designs. Someday soon I will try something besides straight lines!
Great colors – I love the finished product.
It’s simplicity and choise of colours is what makes it so beautiful. Awesome!
wow-wow. really stunning! good god! must feel so good. I need to get a quilt started in the worst way-maybe revisit the christmas prints again??
I’m VERY impressed, that’s beautiful.
I think it is simply lovely, Hillary!
I just love how the quilting works with the rectangles! And the colours are perfect, cheerful but not glary. You’ve got me itching to make a quilt now…
your quilt is gorgeous, i love the colours.
Wow. I’ve been wondering how that was turning out because I’ve been wanting to make the same thing. How many different colors, and how much yardage of each did you use?
So beautiful!
Stunning! The combination of colours looks amazing.
You are such an inspiration, Hillary!!! Now I want to make a beautifully simple quilt. It is gorgeous!!!
SO AMAZING!!! you are the real thing. xo : mav
Sigh…. it’s soooooo lovely! So what if you used 2 different shades of grey? If anyone says anything tell them it’s a “sunshine and shadow” quilt!
I am in love with that quilt! The colors are so amazing I want to lick them.
Love it! You are amazing with color. Can’t wait for book group.
So beautiful in its simplicity!
Love, love, love your color choices!
It’s so so beautiful, and the colours are perfect! Lovely work! 🙂
Breathtaking… really beautiful work!
looks great hillary! i’m so impressed you stuck with their quilting plan on your home machine! i am picture you jolting it from side to side!!! 🙂
oh MY
I am sorry… but I must add to all the gasping 🙂 It is stunning. Truly gorgeous. The colours are inspired… I would never think to put such vibrant tones together like that but DAMN it works so well! 🙂
And I can’t believe you quilted it yourself. It looks perfect to me. I can’t see any imperfections at all ..
congrats. Gosh. I will need to lie down and recover now. xx
Great quilt! I really like the colors, and I think the quilting is great too. How on earth do you manage a whole quilt in a home machine? I want to try that, but I am scared!
Beautiful quilt! And I love that it’s quilted in two different grays.
Fabulous!! And thanks for giving the close-ups and story. It looks amazing in detail and at a distance, and I love the way the colours work.
What a beautiful and intricately worked quilt. I love the colours, especially when fall is upon us soon.
Wow! That is BEAUTIFUL!
hillary, your quilt is just as stunning! i loved your narration of your battle with the sewing machine, i know i make crazy faces while i am working all the time. i think this is the part of quilting that scares me the most, the quilting. from the few, very small (one yard!) baby blankets i have done with some “mock” quilting, i cant even fathom how you would wrangle a queen sized quilt under there!
I am so in love with the quilt. You are so inspirational!The colors are absolutely lovely.
wow, truly gorgeous! im new to stitching, sewing and the like…so of course, i’m absolutely fascinated by this piece. and i just love the colors so much!!
this.is.beautiful
you are such an inspiration.
I love it!! Sooooo cute. I didnt know if you knew abut http://projectlinus.org/ but you make such beautiful things, i didn’t know if you had a place for all of them to go. FANTASTIC job keep it up!!!
Wow – that quilt is just gorgeous! You are so talented – I absolutely love checking out your blog to see what fun things you’ve created.
I think your quilting looks fab! I know what you mean about wrestling with the quilt… I remember coming home sore and exhausted after my nights of doing free motion swirl patterns on Brynne’s quilt. Just trying to manage the weight of the quilt was almost too much – let alone get decent looking stitches! Phew!
uauuuu! beautiful!
it’s the most gorgeous quilt i’ve ever seen – the colors are just stunning, all in combination with another. brilliant!! i wish i could quilt (but i have short attention span and am very lazy haha) xo stella
Kim’s is great, but yours is just as fine…it’s the main strength of that quilt design….if you get the colors right (no matter what colors) the quilt is beautiful! Wonderful job!
Great quilt, going to make one similar for sure. My favourite quilts to make are squares and rectangles, and I have a superquilter that is great for meandering. Love the all the things you do, so talented.
It’s wonderful!
I love your style, site, photography, and of course your creations, especially this quilt. Wonderful colour combination. It looks as though it’s been washed since you’ve done the quilting, it has that beautiful texture… Come over and visit me, I have my quilt posted. I’m new to blogland.
I’d never have thought of putting those colors together. You have a sophisticated sense of color. That’s a really beautiful quilt!
I love these colors and I love the modern pattern. I’ve got this huge bin of fabric scraps and this just might be the pattern that gets me to give quilting something big a try again.
You just continue to amaze me, Hilary.
Really? I have NO idea how I got to this posting in your blog but I am totally and entirely in love with that quilt. Seriously. I would divorce my husband tomorrow for that quilt. It’s soooo pretty….the kids are going to be sent to orphanages tomorrow so I can learn how to quilt. It must be done.
Like all the other commenters here. WOW! This quilt looks great. I’ve got the book at the home and this wasn’t a pattern that had jumped out at me. But having seen your’s and Kim’s versions, it may well be added to ever-growing “to do” list.
This quilt is gorgeous!
wow! soo pretty. im starting to make this quilt too and now im even more excited. hehe. ohh i have a question for you…did you use batting? ive never done this before and i cant tell if i really need it or not? let me know if you have time!