Daryl’s Excellent California Adventure…

I’ve moved onto my next venue already, the time is flying.  The weather is lovely and really I get why the west coast is so appealing.  After the winter we had in Jersey…

My first stop was in the Central Coast, Morro Bay specifically, where I have the most wonderful fiber friend Nancy, who hosted a five day garment construction intensive in her studio.  The space worked really well for all ten students, and I got my first taste of teaching Plein Air.

Most of the students had taken workshops with me before, so they came armed with their own agenda, and plenty of patterns to fit.  We had a pieced vest in progress…

We had a Daryl Jacket made from old denim jeans and denim skirts…

We made test garment after test garment, mostly from old sheets, but occasionally a really wild bold plaid, which incidentally makes the best test garment, you can really check the grainlines! Making test garments really uses up the stash of ugly fabrics.

We dined out at exotic coastal restaurants like Taco Temple, ate fried oysters at Dockside too. (Really that’s the name, Dockside too.)

We never stopped tiring of views of the Rock from Nancy’s house.

We watched the sunset every night.

We drank a lot of wine. 🙂

I got to see some of the Daryl Jackets finished from previous classes.

I discovered a great way to keep track of my water bottle.  Never lost sight of it!  Thank you Kevin for the wine stopper in my Christmas stocking this year.  I’ve put it to good use on the road…  The wine never lasted long enough to need a stopper.

I didn’t get to see a single garment finished, largely because this group knows how to sew, and gathering up a year’s worth of fitted patterns and test garments was the agenda du jour.  So everyone went home happy, hoping to have me return sometime in the next year or so to continue the adventure.

I’m now at the Asilomar State Park and Conference center for the Conference of Northern California Handweavers.  Lots and lots of old friends, great food and wicked fun fiber adventures.

Stay tuned…