A gift for me!

As a thank you from Teri for hosting the give away she sent me a thank you present – look what wonderful goodies arrived in the mail today for me!

2 Packages of charms - she wanted to make sure I had plenty to make a quilt with! Thank you Teri! In the give away one of the packages of charms is this same kind I had mentioned how much I liked it. I'm sure whoever wins the give away will enjoy it too.

Quite a few of you have asked who is Teri?   Teri and I have never met and didn’t even start to correspond until recently so I really do not know her well.  That is the way it is with a lot of us “internet friends” .  We exchange e mail and chat about quilting but a lot of times we do not actually know each other as I’m sure is the case with a lot of us.  Sometimes for me it is hard to even keep everyone straight in my mind as I have begun to correspond with so many quilters – I am almost ready to print out a list of names and where you are all from to keep it straight in my head!! LOL

I asked her some questions so I could write up a little of her.  Teri is from Alabama a little north of Montgomery.  She is a self-taught quilter and taught herself how to quilt about 18 years ago.  She quilts mostly by hand. Right now she is making a Redwork embroidery quilt.  BOM’s and kits are some of the kinds of quilting that she likes. She says she doesn’t have the eye for picking out all the fabric involved and that is why she likes the kits.  Teri’s first love is cooking — I think a lot of us quilters love to cook too as I have seen many good recipes on quilting blogs!  She also loves reading and traveling and she use to spend time making clothes for her kids and has made a wonderful French hand sewn Christening gown for her grandchildren and made her oldest daughter’s wedding gown.  Now that is a talent I do not have — I really do not like clothes sewing.  Teri and her family moved to the country on an acre of land about 3 years after her mother died – Teri was her mother’s caregiver in the last three years of her life and she didn’t have time for quilting or anything as that took a lot of time.  Teri is really not interesting in beginning a blog right now as she doesn’t know her way around computers really well.

(Edited at 7:20 PM – I forgot to mentioned that Teri is reading all the comments left by everyone and is having a good time checking out all of the blogs from you all that have blogs = I have been too   — keep them coming)

I have already been pulling books off of the shelves to get ideas on how to use these two charm packs and I have a couple that I am going to be giving a second look at.   And now I know some people are going to say “OMG she is going to start another quilt” LOL probably you are right – somehow the two large applique quilts  (Little Brown Bird and the traditional Red/Green Applique ) that I have talked about for the past year keep getting put aside – I wonder if that means I really do not want to make them or if it means just not right now?  I have made one block for each of those quilts so at least that is a start!

There are still 4 more days until the give away – if you want to participate leave a comment at this link.  Right now we are at 91 comments!!! a few more than the last give away I gave for sure.