Amazingly enough, I am STILL in California! I head home tomorrow at the crack of before dawn. I'll miss the lovely, cool breezes but I will be happy, happy, happy to be home!

I want to share some of the photos I've taken in the last few days. I taught 2 workshops for the Beach Cities guild. The classes were great fun! I managed to get my camera out on the second day. Here are both ends of the classroom with my students hard at work…

We were working on the Chirps block. Here's is Jean's, in progress.

I love this block! It looks good in any fabric I've seen it made in. Jean placed her bird carefully so that the word "friendship" showed. FYI – this is a Japanese fabric and it is amazing!

The class was held at the Sewing Party Quilt Shop. I LOVE this shop!

The models/quilts tended to be modern in attitude…

The colors tended to be clear. And the owner buys lots of very interesting Japanese fabric in addition to fabrics from American companies. I shopped. You can too! Look for sewingparty.com online, check out the blog, or call them 949-725-0492. 

Jean took me county western dancing! Let me say right now that I cannot dance but I had a great time. We went to Swallows in San Juan Capistrano. On Friday night the locals who dance every week and know each other well were out in force. Great people watching. It made me want to go home and take lessons. With Steve (are you up for that?). Jean twirled me, with only a little success, in class the next day. Seriously, I am not light on my feet.

That's it for now. I'm visiting the Conejo Valley Guild now. Had class yesterday at the Quilt Studio (another great shop!) and I lecture tonight. I'm on my way very soon to have lunch at a place on the beach. It'll be good to see the ocean before I head home! I may get to post again before I leave (I have a few more photos…). Later!