Festival of Quilts 2011

... was absolutely amazing. After a bit of an odyssey to get there and a delay that made me lose 2 precious hours of quilt viewing and fabric shopping I made it to the NEC and it was all worth it. Amazing quilts and lovely people (so sorry I didn't actually take pictures of Katy and Mandy and all the other people I met, only took photos of the quilts :)



And here are my favorites:































The FoQ was very inspiring. i can't wait to make some more quilts. The day is just not long enough. Did you go to the FoQ? What did you think of it? What were your favorites?



Lots of love,

Nadine xx

Festival of Quilts (I)

I have decided to upload several posts to the blog as I can't possibly fit everything into one, I just have too many pictures and the iPhone app crashed several times as I tried to put this together. ARGH.

SO this first one is all about Kaffe Fassett and Amy Butler and the amazing quilts I finally saw in person after admiring them in Kaffe's books.

Here are a few from "Simple Shapes, Spectacular Quilts":

And this one, the "Mexican Party Quilt", is from his new book "Quilts en Provence" which he sold and signed yesterday as well.

Amy Butler was lovely by the way, very friendly and approachable. She put a personalised signature in every book too. And in the background you can see some of her beautiful quilts.

And here is Kaffe Fassett. I managed to catch him while he was signing his books and asked him to sign mine as well. I believe he was only there for an hour in the morning and one in the afternoon, so yay, lucky me.

And these are the books I took home, signed copies by Amy and Kaffe. Hurrah.





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