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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

Saturday, 2 August 2008

What a lovely morning

Wow it is a beautiful time of day. The sun is up and it is quiet outside of the house and inside. The hum of the dyer and the ticking of the clck inthe shape of Jamaica is what I can hear. Bliss.

Well I am still working on quilts for Melisa but as well as that I have had a swell of ideas for other projects too that I would like to tackle. There is a calendar competition I want to try my hand at and there are a few quilts I see in my minds eye that I want to put together. I have also been toying with the idea of dying more fabric as the last lot I did came out so beautifully.

I have had two friends in particular inspire me with what they are doing. One in New York and the other in Dubai. I hope we continue to inspire each other.

Andy went off to Tokat yesterday and the first thing he located was a quilt maker. He told me he sat and watched the man sew. He also went looking for the famous Tokat printed fabric or headscarf called a yazma. He sent me a text message to tell me what a one-of-kind-man he is. I have to give it to him he really is. A very fine man indeed.

Any way I must press on with today's activities but before I leave this spot I will savour the moment a few minutes more, before I hear small feet or bigger feet shuffling down the stairs.

I am having a lovely cup of tea and I wish Sandy was close by to drink one with me

have a wonderful day

Troye
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