My day with Kaffe and Brandon (and 30 other squealing women!)

Get ready for a long post with LOADS of photos ....

Kaffe and Brandon are in town and I was lucky enough to get into a workshop they ran today at Amitie, the happiest land of them all!

This image above is of the original bordered diamonds quilt from the book Simple Shapes, Spectacular Quilts. It was our focus for the day.

There were so many lovely people there today:

That's me with Jenny, owner of Amitie

Miriam, Me (and my chins) and Cathy

Melissa, Cathy and Me

Blogless Sue and Judy

And so many other awesome women........

..... who brought with them LOADS of delicious fabric:

Lisa was obscenely neat and organized.

We ate well:

And drank well ...

But mainly we worked hard!!
There were design walls everywhere:

Here are some of the wonderful designs that were created today:

Here I am hard at work:

Check out the progression of my design wall:

It eventually became this:

After all the designing (and eating and drinking and singing and laughing and chatting) was done, Kaffe went from design wall to design wall offering insights and lashings of praise and encouragement.

Here he is critiquing my design:

During the day, Kaffe was generally quiet, measured and a bit serious.

The only real 'smiley' shot I got of him was standing in front of Linda's quilt ... my favourite of the day:

Brandon on the other hand ...

What an amazing day!!
Thank you to EVERYONE who made it possible.

Andi xx