Excitingly I got to spend all day playing with colour today - always a pleasure! Having met Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably last week I was really looking forward to learning more from them both and having a good excuse to immerse myself in colour and fabric for a few hours.

My day started strangely and exhaustingly. When I booked the course I saw it was at Lady Sew and Sew in Henley-On-Thames and booked my train ticket accordingly. Then yesterday, how I do not know, I spotted the website said the course was in Marlow. So, relieved at spotting the error in time, I cancelled my train ticket and booked a new one, and this morning headed off to catch the train.

Except I then got my train times confused and missed the Marlow train by a minute. The next one would have got me there very late for the course so I was very stressed. But fortunately this prompted me to once again look at the venue, I was looking to see if there was another station near it I could head to, and see it was in Henley-On-Thames after all. If I hadn't have missed the train I would have headed to completely the wrong place. By now I had lost all faith in my ability to read and until I walked through the door of the shop I had no idea if I was heading to the right place or not.

Fortunately I finally had it right and the day improved no end.

If you have even the tiniest interest in fabric then you need to head to this shop/ warehouse. I have no idea how many thousands of different fabrics they must sell but I fell in love with most of them.

I had come along with no fabric at all so had a good excuse to buy some and set myself loose right away and chose about 20 to begin with. Of course over the course of the day I added some extras to the pile...but all necessary of course.

The day consisted of cutting out fabric and placing them onto some flannel so we could see our colour choices and how they worked. A lot of time was spent standing back and looking at what you had chosen to see if it worked overall. Really good fun but surprisingly tiring!

Kaffe and Brandon were on hand throughout the day with Brandon working hard helping me select new fabrics. I found it hard work as fabric isn't really a medium I have worked in before and I had no real experience of knowing how different ones with will together. Add in patterns and different scales and it was very different than working on beads.

By the end of the day I had learnt a lot, and spent a lot, and headed home excitedly looking forward to finishing my quilt. Hopefully some time in 2013...

If you want to see some more photos from the day then check out the post on my Colour Blog.