Belated: Quilt Top Pieced

Back in March, I finished piecing the Colorado Quilt. Here is a picture of the finished quilt top laid out on my bed in my terribly messy room.

I lost my enthusiasm for the project partly because I am terribly unsure how I am going to go about quilting it. The pattern calls for an awesome squared spiral, but I don't think my machine will manage turning the corners with all of bulk of the entire length of the quilt. Part of me wants to get it professionally quilted. Part of me wants to do some other quilting solution, such as vertical lines across the entire quilt.

I was also a little overhwelmed by all of the colors when laid out on a bed. At this point, I don't plan the quilt to go on my bed. I have (as you can see) a very dark red wall behind the bed, which works very nicely with the cream-colored and red-accented quilt that I currently use on the bed. But with the bright greens, purples, and soft pinks it didn't work so well. So it will likely go in the guest room, for which I don't have any furniture at the moment, further de-motivating me.