Little tidbits of my life

Quiltaholic

My name is Teresa and I am a QUILTAHOLIC.

It has been seven months and 8 days  two months and 20 days since my last stitch.

Calling all fabric collectors...HELP!!!

If anyone has a remnant of this fabric in the pic and would like to sell me a little bit of it, please let me know.  The fabric is dark green with little red roses on it and sprigs of a tiny white flower w/light brown leaves...ANSTON PRINT WORKS is on the edge, but I think that it might mean CRANSTON PRINT WORKS.

My family has a special friend who is fast approaching 100 years old.  She's a dear, sweet woman of whom my parents have sort of taken under their wing as a mother figure.  She often gives me little bags of sewing projects that are unfinished.  Most recently, she gave me 20 squares that will make a LOVELY log cabin quilt.  The catch is that it is missing approximately 16 strips of fabric to complete the squares!  I can't find an alternate fabric that would work, so that's why I'm here, pleading for your help

I do not need much of the fabric, just 1/2 yard should be plenty.

Thanks!

Teresa

Wall Hanging for Oriental theme Decor

I just finished a wedding present for a close friend's daughter.  She has decorated her new place in white, red and black and it has an oriental theme.  I racked my brain for a special and custom gift...after browsing the internet, I found a few sites that showed the Chinese symbol for love.  I had some really pretty remnants of embroidered fabric w/pagodas and things like this, so I used it to applique the symbol onto a piece of white...this is the result of my wall hanging:

Here is a close up:

This was definitely thinking "out of the box" for me, so I enjoyed the challenge.

I still have not gotten the results of my bone scan, but I will give everyone an update once I know more.

Thank you for your prayers and may God Bless You!

Teresa

Memories

I am so glad to be a part of this blogging group.  I was referred here by a blogger from my church.  I have really enjoyed the site thus far.  I have always preferred a simple lifestyle and was raised in a rural area in a small town called Ooltewah, TN.  I was very happy to move to Sand Mountain when I married my hubby in 2001.  The rural area here is just like the town I grew up in.  Ooltewah, however, has became quite populated and much of the farmland has been developed into subdivisions.  The fields I played in as a child now feature homes worth up to $1 million.  While these homes are beautiful, I miss the pastures and all the wildlife that used to be there.  As a child, I used to get a blanket and lay on my back in the yard while watching beautiful bald eagles play and nest on our property.  The eagles have not been seen there in many years, now.  The memories will be with me forever.   Enough nostalgia! 

This picture below was taken from my back deck.  I love the view of my neighbor's field.

I love this pic.  It looks to me like the bull is lecturing the poor girls. 

Anyway I look forward to meeting new friends and sharing sewing tips, recipes, etc.  I love to quilt both from hand and by machine, so if anyone has quilting questions, feel free to ask me.  If I don't know the answer, I will try to find it for you.  I started quilting around age 7.  The elderly ladies at my church took me under their wing, so I learned about 10 different ways to do everything (each one I sat with would tell me their way is better, so I just kept my mouth shut and kept learning :o)).

Last year, my mother wanted to make a special quilt for her sister who had just had a massive stroke.  My aunt has always loved to collect angel trinkets, so my mother asked me to design an angel for the center of the quilt.  I found a pretty lace angel online and used its outline as my general layout for the angel.  I hand-embroidered the angel, then designed and cut out the quilt pieces.  My mother sewed it together and hand-quilted it.  She also did the binding.  I especially enjoyed the time my mother and I spent together making the quilt because it was our first large scale project together.

The pic below is a closeup of the angel and the next pic is the completed quilt. 

I will be glad to share anything that is my original design.  I will try to post different projects here soon if anyone is interested in my patterns or instructions for my projects.  For now I am going to go find some supper.

I look forward to meeting new friends here!

Teresa