I attended the Road to California quilters conference this past weekend and it’s probably the most quilting fun I’ve had in my life! I attended some amazing classes, viewed many outstanding quilts, did some fun shop-hopping, and hung out with my good quilting buddy, Judy. All pictures shown here were taken with permission of Road to California staff & artists and are for your personal enjoyment only.

The first stop on my journey was to visit with Dr. Bob of Superior Threads. I signed up for two thread painting classes so I had to make sure I had enough supplies. After this weekend, I am head over heels for these threads. I placed an order for more and will soon be stocking them in my shop. My favorites? MasterPiece cotton 50 weight for piecing and shiny 40 weight tri-lobal polyester for machine quilting and embroidery.

Here are some pictures of a few quilts that just made my heart sing! The quilt below is titled “Life in Holly Ridge”, made by my teacher for the weekend, Nancy Prince.  I’ll go into more details about her wonderful classes in my next post. This quilt had the most amazing embroidery and thread painted details. Each of the figures was individually constructed!

The picture below shows Cindy Needham’s quilt, “Infinity”. My friend Judy took a fabulous machine quilting class from Cindy who also happens to be an educator for Superior Threads.

It was fun for each of us to take different classes then tell each other what we learned!

While walking the show, we could hear the sounds of beautiful harp music playing by Bronn Journey.  What a serene and peaceful way to view the quilts!

He and his wife Katherine make beautiful music together. With her voice and his harp,  you can hear a sampling of their music on their website at http://www.bronnjourney.com.

All in all, it was a wonderful weekend and I can’t wait to do it again next year.  Be sure to read the next two posts coming up about the rest of my weekend!