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Backyard deck, Blacksburg, VA- Feb 15, 2012

We are getting close!

Quality control - Pepper Hoover tests and inspects the quilt I am working on.

(I had it on the deck- it was easier to add the binding there.)

waiting seams

From my writing page- a small stone Gathering

January 26, 2012- Small Stones
waiting seams  by  Teri H Hoover


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the day flips by 

and a quilt waits.

Exposing all those seams.

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Living Room Floor, Blacksburg, VA - Jan 26, 2012

 

So January slips by- and it seems (- ah those lovely seams,) that the whole world has discovered how to pause- even my quilt.  Maybe this weekend I can cut out the pieces for the backing. Been a busy girl though... how about you? 

October 4, 2011

Excerpt from  October 4, 2011

by Teri H Hoover

This quilt was made as a way through grieving
after the death of my 21 year old nephew on October 21, 2009.
The full poem is on my blog  A small stone Gathering   

I picked this quilt up from the quilter on October 4-
it would have been my nephews 23rd birthday. 

We miss you Stephen-

In the Garden

My great-grandmothers quilt-  Blakcsburg, VA- February 23, 2011

Standing in my great-grand mothers flower garden

I cross the generations with one  gentle step.

 

The ebb and flow of faith. I catch the wave of faith with just  enough momentum to overcome a feeling of dread. It took nearly all day to talk myself down from the edge. Mindful breathing while walking the dog. More mindful breathing while walking through the grocery store. At 5AM they arrived- yes 5 AM. It is not them I dread but the accompanying reminders and memories. But as always once I am submerged in the pool the fear subsides (or goes it just go deeper?).  But I digress they came with a a gift. This gift holds more power than I am able to hold. I set my gift on the floor with the greatest of care. The gift of a quilt from my 100 year old grandmother- the gift of a quilt made by her mother. I am in heaven.

 

One Year and One Day

Seams

All

Sewn

Upstairs sewing area, Blacksburg, VA- Jan 5, 2011

Seems

Bedroom, Blacksburg VA- Jan 5, 2010

All
Sown 

A River of Stones- a 30 day challenge in observing

One year and one day ago I started this quilt top.

I had a pattern but of course I did not stick to that.

I had a timetable.

A very realistic time table
with plenty of time to wander and return.

The next step will be to hand the quilt over
(to a friend)
to be machine quilted-

Another realistic move-
it is 
too BIG
to hand quilt.

Over on Joanne's blog Whole Latte Life

she posed the question -
"Do you come into the new year as a lion or a lamb?"

The responses in the comment section 
make this post really fun.

My answer:
  I am a lion in sheep's clothing-
kind of scary huh? 

My work style tends to be rather 
 me
                 and
ering

and
indirect -

but my courage bubbles up 
and keeps me moving in a general direction.

With that my quilt top is completed!

Delayed by a day- 

Delayed by a dog- 

Done in a year and a day.

Here is a link to the day I began my quilt top- 

Just over a year ago --January 4, 2010

My Plan

Upstairs Sewing area. Blacksburg, VA- Jan 4, 2011

To finish the quilt top

Princess Peppers plan 

To go on a two mile walk

Plans scatter like unsewn quilt pieces near an open window.

 

Tomorrow 

My plan- to finish the quilt top.

It is ok to have plans -

but I am not inadequate if that plan goes for a walk

A River of Stones - a 30 day challenge in observing 

I have always had a hunch that my projects, endeavors, journeys

and in short my life  

is poorly planned 

It all stems from not hearing Gods will-maybe I am deaf. 

So I will  balanced myself,

short circuiting the little whispers that say you have failed.

I know in my heart that despite all my faultiness 

that everything is filled with beauty and love-

because love is bigger than all my unfinished endeavors.