Welcome Mary, I am another Californian, live just north of Temecula in southern CA. Where are you located? Looking forward to the second International Quilt Show in Long Beach in July, are you going? I went last year and it was awesome. Also the Road to California show in Ontario, CA in January. My guild is the only guild allowed to go after the show closes on Monday to pack out all the quilts so we get to see and touch (with gloved hands of course) all the quilts that were in the show. We have so much fun and their gift to us for doing that is free admittance to the show and a bag of quilting goodies along with a year pin tag to add to our R to C pin. I hope you are close to LA and can make it to one of these shows at least. DH is taking me to the outdoor Quilt Show in Sisters, Or in July this year also. Can't wait, meeting my cousin there from Hawaii.