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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

Friday, 11 July 2008



The pictures for the auction were taken yesterday by Jennifer Barnes Eliot. She called at just the right time the other night to offer her services to me. I was worrying about various things and she helped me put some things in perspective. Whatever happens it will be great.

The night before last I took some pictures of Cameron wearing one of the quilts. I wanted him to wear his aviator glasses but he wouldn't, but never mind the pictures came out well any way.

My grandmother who is always an inspiration to me has been praying every day for Melisa. One of the first questions she asks me when I call her is "How is that little girl Melisa"

I have to remember this is not about me. This is about Melisa and helping her. and that is it. So come on everybody lets do this thing!!!

As I was sewing some of the quilts I was getting fidgety about some of the mistakes I was making, then I kept hearing in my mind the words of my friend Kris, don't worry about your mistakes, any only God is perfect" and I kept on...

I am adding a few pictures this morning. Though the auction is this weekend there is still more work to do. I will share it with you here.

Love

Troye
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soo said...

Hey Troye - I am amazed at what beautiful works of art you have created. they are lovely (just like their creator!) what a great cause too. miss you and the gang. tons of love and congrats to Kat on her results - fantastic

12 July 2008 at 18:55

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