YEA!  We got the luggage. It was delivered to the hotel at the last minute due to the hard work of the hotel concierge. They were so great at Intercontinental Hotel.

We got through the airport and to the plane in time. What a relief. Jalpa met us at the airport. On to the hotel. We saw kites being prepared for the “Kite Festival”. They were dyeing the string and putting glass on the strinqs. The competition with the kites involves cutting the strings on other kites. The last one left in the sky is the winner. We will be seeing the Festival  day after tomorrow. More to come on this. Today we are shopping for fabrics for my workshop on Applique.

Upon arriving in Newark, we found our flight to Mumbai was cancelled. A night in a Newark Hotel and departure the next night on Lufthansa, through Munich was the plan for us.  Hung out in a Newark  mall,  15 degree weather.  Meanwhile our luggage got lost. My cold got worse and I lost hearing in one ear. What else could go wrong.

We Arrived in Mumbai with no luggage having lost a day of our trip. It felt like we had been on the road for a week.The one saving thing was that our hotel was fabulous. I had an adventure going to the doctor and chemist in the morning to see what I could do about the deafness. After lunch on the rooftop terrace, what else could we do but retail therapy for some clothes. In the evening we went to a silk and sari store. It was straight out of  the movie “Monsoon Wedding”, colored silk, lots of people choosing their wedding fabrics, another adventure into Indian culture. Tomorrow onto Ahmedabad. We are praying that our luggage will meet us at the airport.

I will be co-leading a textile tour to Mumbai and Gujarat jan 9 thru jan 25. My friend Bonnie is on the trip. She is a seasoned traveler and adventurer. We ran into number one adventure in the airport. I was so happy that I was upgraded to first class, we were ready to board and flight was cancelled. We are now in a hotel in Newark, New Jersey. Hopefully we will be leaving tomorrow night on another airline through Munich. The flight from San Francisco went well. I am sending a pic of the Georgia O’Keeffe sky I took from the plane.

This is the latest in my “Marin County” art quilts. I was out hiking in the hills of Marin, took this photo and made it into a quilt. Dimensions:  28 1’2″ w 38 3/4″. Hand dyed fabric, machine quilted.

Yesterday was the final class for the Quiltmaking class at the Downtown Campus. The students were very creative and enthusiastic this semester. I loved the cultural mix of students. There were

quilters from many countries; Brazil, China,France,Russia, Columbia, Burma, Syria and Guatemala, to name a few. Here are a few of the finished quilt tops from the final class.