Grab your sunglasses. Grab some avocados. Grab that Map of the Stars and hop into the nearest convertible because we’re going to Southern California!

In Issue 11: Southern California, the latest installment of Quiltfolk’s grand tour of quilted America, you’re going to meet remarkable people who live, work, and sew in sunny “SoCal,” the land of orange groves, naval bases, and year-round sunshine. (Southern Californians are so nice, it’s actually hard to be jealous about that last thing.)

California is just too big to tackle in a single issue of Quiltfolk — we’d have to make difficult choices about which stories to exclude. So, for Issue 11, we zeroed in on the beauty of the state’s southern half. We are proud to bring you the stories we found there the way no other magazine can.

See you on the beach!