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Grunge!
We do love a bright and brilliant rainbow, but sometimes it's nice (and practical) to have a darker and more subdued version.
At Festival of Quilts in 2022 we found some lovely examples of quilts made with a darker and more subdued palette...
And the four quilts above were spotted at the Quiltfest, St Andrews Church, Isleham, Cambridgeshire on the August Bank Holiday Monday 2022...
CT63 from Festival of Quilts "I See Strong Women" by Jane Varrall
CT63 detail
The Modern category does not tend to grunginess, but this delicious brown quilt qualifies pretty well...
MD56 by trashalou "#thatbrownquilt"
A delightful exhibit by Creative Textiles Studio had several good examples - when you make your own fabrics a subtlety of colour and shade is always possible
This is "Homeless" by Leslie Morgan
Detail of "Homeless" by Leslie Morgan
This is "Between Land and Sea" by Janet McCallum - painted shibori, dyes, piecing. A diptych nicely balanced...
"Between Land and Sea" by Janet McCallum: detail
"Salthouse Sunset" by Cherry Vernon-Harcourt
This discharge-dyed quilt is "Before Dawn" by Sylwia Ignatowska and was spotted on another exhbit...
And this lovely quilt was on the stand for Biggar Stitches
4, The Raveningham Centre, Beccles Road, Raveningham, Norfolk, NR14 6NU. United Kingdom