We signed up
for this a long time ago, it was eagerly awaited and it was all we had hoped
for and more, the Di Ford weekend at Petra Prins’ in Zutphen.'
Emma drove
over from France and once in Zutphen everything and everybody was ready and waiting
for us.
Di and Petra
welcoming us, the start of a wonderful weekend!
There were two
groups, both were going to work on new Di Ford designs, one group was going to
work on this lovely pattern
and the other
group – which included Emma and myself - was going to work on this beauty
It was my
third workshop by Di Ford and again there was so much to learn from her, she is
so talented and such a wonderful teacher and because it was a whole weekend
workshop there was so much time to learn from her. This workshop was mostly
about designing, and this for 2 whole days! Things like ‘deconstructing’,
‘constructing’, ‘anchoring’ , my head was spinning!
Both quilts are
still a work in progress which was great so that Di could explain (some of) her
design process to us.
The quilts
being wip’s also meant that this quilt (the first one, see above)
did not have a
name yet. Petra and Di organised a small competition on Saturday, we could all
think of a name and they would announce the winner on Sunday.
Guess who won?
Clever girl!
Emma won a box of the newly released Di Ford collection of Aurifil 80wt
applique threads, the name she came up with will become known when the
quilt/pattern is published.
In the
give-away that followed I won a bottle of the applique glue , always welcome,
love the stuff and use it a lot
All in all it
was a wonderful, warm and inspiring weekend, beautiful quilts, lovely people
(great to meet you in person Blanche!) , a surprise visit from Bep who looked
great, yummy food (Petra baked some delicious quiches for lunch on the Sunday,
mmmmm!) , I learned a lot and made some sweet memories again.
Thanks to Di,
Petra, Juud, Gerda and everyone else for everything!
Phyllis
