Festival of Quilts - Post 6, The Blues

Is it too late for another post about FoQ?  Have you had overload?  Well, you've had a little break while I've been in Norfolk and celebrating my hmm-hmmph th birthday and I have just two more festival posts in mind.  This one will be about blues and the next one, Post 7, will be about the workshops and lectures I attended and then that'll be it for this year.  I hope you'll bear with me.

So, blues.  Does anyone else notice the themes or colour schemes in the photographs they take of quilts?  I have a definite leaning towards the blues so I've saved them all for this post.  The first two are from the "Beneath the Southern Skies" travelling exhibition:

Kiwi's Nocturne by Monica Johnstone

 and Antipodean Adventure by Debra De Lorenzo

 Mood Indigo by Ruth Hainsworth

caught my eye 

 and the subtlety of Night and Day by Mike Wallace was worth closer inspection

 Julie Mackinder's Always the Sea was a delightful piece

 and Janice Gunner's arashi shibori piece, Umi spoke to me of water too 

(which is clever as I later discovered "umi" is "water")

 Sylvia Hammond's Blue Reflections was inspired by Japanese blue and white.

Next are two inspired pieces.  I love the ethereal pojagi-style

Allegro Ma Non Troppo by Mercè Gonzalez Desedamas.  

It must have been difficult to decide how to display it and it was certainly difficult to photograph it.  Not only did people keep appearing through the sheerness of it but the lightness of the handpainted and dyed organza meant the piece keep wafting about.

 Margaret Ramsay's Transported - Shinkansen

was so clever, summing up those blurred views from train windows.  

Finally, two subdued blue and stone pieces which caught my eye,

Flint Stones by Yvonne Brown

 and another piece by

Margaret Ramsay, Fleet Mudflats

And, still on the blue theme, here's a picture of me "stitching into the breeze" in Norfolk, what a lovely morning I had: