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Hello All! Thanks for visiting the website. Boy howdy I am working hard on my quilts. Each one is different and tells a little something about me. Sometimes I just go random but there is always something special about each one. I'm pretty cool, at least I think so, I laugh a lot and I laugh loudly. I'm delighted you're looking at this website and considering supporting us. Thanks for passing through Miss Troye! Andy will join us and tell you about himself. he loves cooking, tennis, his music and anything Redskins. He will tell you more about himself later.

What has been happening up to now

Well a lot has been happening. At long last I received the batting I ordered from Tennessee!! I laughed when I saw how big the package was. Cyrus is holding it in one of the photos so you can see what I am talking about. It looks like a fat carpet. The funny thing is four friends in different parts of the world helped me get it here. This will be yet another story I can tell my grand daughters when they are older..

In fact I have had so much support from friends and family I can no longer say I am doing this on my own. Thanks to Barish who set up this blog spot, , my mother in law gave generously out of her stash of African fabrics which she collects on her travels throughout Tanzania and Sierra Leone. The lovely Katherine helped update and edit my pictures and is also a gold mine of insight and input she offers her opinion without buffers sometimes I don't know where she got that personality trait from, honestly. Andy is just a rock and supports most everything I do (LOL). I have been very encouraged by friends and associates who have just called or stopped me to ask how it is going, which is so helpful to me. There have been many offers of assistance. Someone even offered to come and sit and keep me company while I sewed.

I have been dying fabric, altering denim and all sorts of lovely things like that. I went to London last week for a training course but while I was there I could not resist a quick pit stop into Liberty's (beautiful leafy red fabric). I called into a haberdasher's in Northwood Hills where I buy my calico. I raced there after my course finished to make it before closing time at one on Saturday. Thankfully my bags were not lost at terminal 5 at Heathrow.

Any way I am well on my way and I hope together we really can help Melisa. Sometimes when I feel like giving up I just think of her and I am supplied with the energy and the will to carry on.

Thanks for stopping

Troye

Some of the pictures are just fabric yet to be cut into squares triangles or strips

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Good Morning all,

I am still reeling from the auction but busy busy busy!!! I am grateful to all who have helped and who continue to help with their words of encouragement and support. I have lost of work to take me into the Fall. This has been a great adventure so far and there is still a way to go. I have not heard yet about any details for impending surgery but as soon as I do I will let you know. In the meantime more sewing.

In the course of all of this I read bout a competition I think I want to go for. It is titled Freshly Picked we are supposed to enter quilt depicting freshly picked fruits or veg or flowers or anything that grows. I had an idea about my Grandfather who was an avid gardener. My Gran has a beautiful picture of him wading through corn he had grown with his favorite hat on picking the corn.

The other idea I had stems from some cotton I picked in North Carolina three years ago on a road trip. We were driving through North Carolina and all along the road were these cotton fields. In the middle of the fields were these huge things that I can only think to call binders which gathered the cotton together. I asked Andy to stop and at one of the rest stops there were cotton plants everywhere. I picked some and have kept it for a scrap book, but now I am thinking hmmmmmmmmm maybe I could do something with that we will see..
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