it is BRIGHT!! and I agree, can't believe that someone thought it belonged in a kit :?: but everyone has an "ugly" quilt from time to time. I just made one, didn't like the looks it was dull dull dull and finished it for my puppies to lay on, low and behold my husband saw it and it now resides on his recliner. Alwasy remember...beauty is in the eye of the beholder.