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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, 4 August 2009

I met the lady who bought Twisted Sister. Here is the story. Last Summer all the quilts sold at auction except a pink black and white quilt called Twisted Sister, I made another one similar about three years ago for a teacher who suddenly left BISI... Any way. I met her at Woodsview International Preschool

She was washing dishes for the days events and I went up there to meet her. She called me after the auction had finished and asked if all the quilts had gone, I told her all had gone but one, she asked which one I told her Twisted Sister. She exclaimed that that was the one she wanted. I won't reprint her story as to why that quilt was so special to her, but I can tell you why it was special for me. Through quilting I have been able to express love. The quilts have also made it possible for others to show love too. I feel blessed to be able to make a difference in people's lives.

I will continue to do so and I hope God continues to bless the work of my hands inspired by the love in my heart.
Thanks for stopping

Troye
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