Sunny week ahead

I have two more quilts left in the closet that need quilting. Yay!!  This one is finally done.  The fabric is Simple Abundance by Bonnie and Camille.   It's 3 years old.  Old as dirt.
Good thing I still like the fabric.

I used a couple of charm packs (5x5 inch squares of the complete line of fabric) and simply cut them in half and stacked them to make a Chinese Coin quilt.  I'm pretty sure that's Kona snow as the background fabric.  I used some of the leftovers on the back.

This is the first time using my free motion quilting foot. When I started to quilt this (over a year ago), my machine broke when I was about halfway done, and I never went back to it until last week.  It was a good size for practicing  free motion quilting at 55x55 inches.

I spent this past weekend with my daughter and we had a good time shopping and decorating her apartment.  The weather was beautiful, and I had planned on taking pictures of my quilt out by the bay, but the Monterey Pro-Am golf tournament was going on at Pebble Beach and it was so busy, we had a hard time just navigating the city, never mind pulling over for a quick photo.
  I did find a yarn shop, although I won't say anything more than it was pretty disappointing.  I bought a beautiful hank of blue Malabrigo sock yarn, that seemed to mimic the colors of the ocean, so I didn't come away empty handed.
Now for some more yarn news.

I met a woman in the next town, who is raising 3 Alpacas, mostly to chew down the acres of grass on her property.  She just got them sheared for the first time, and was offering to sell their fleece.

Um, yes please!!!!  I bought four un-dyed hanks of pure Alpaca wool, and there is much more where this came from! 
Now I'm off for a walk.  I almost hate to post these next pictures, because so many of you are in the middle of a cold, snowy winter, but this is from my walk last week.

I know.  I can't believe it either.  No rain in sight and 62 degrees today.
 Sending you all love and sunshine from California : )