Sunday 4 August 2013

Story Telling Sunday - Precious Gift.

Today is story telling sunday for all blogging story tellers out there, created & co-ordinated over at High in the Sky. This year we are sharing tales of our Precious.

With the Festival of Quilts being held near me in Birmingham this coming week it prompted me to share with you the story of this precious gift.
Through scrapbooking at GoGo Getaway retreats I met a lovely lady called Sharon from down south. Last October Sharon contacted me saying she had been reading my blog for some time & read about the quilt I helped make for the Olympics & another I had just finished for my daughter.
She explained that her Mum had recently passed away & she had been a wonderful hand quilter & produced many beautiful quilts in her life time. Whilst sorting her belongings Sharon found a Quilters bag her Mum had made full of all the tools you need plus books & patterns and she offered them to me as she wanted them to continue to be used...
I can still remember how honoured I felt to be offered this most precious gift. The bag alone is evidence of how talented Sharon's Mum was as a hand quilter.
This precious bag now holds a collection of my tools & hers, my cottons & hers ... and when I'm quilting seeing & using this bag makes me smile & remember a talented lady I never met & her generous daughter xxx
Please hop on over to Sians blog & check out other stories.

  

20 comments:

  1. How lovely to be recognised as someone who would treasure and use these books and tools.

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  2. That is really precious. She would be so happy to know someone really appreciates and uses them.

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  3. How lovely,Sheena.....and the bag is wonderful.

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  4. Oh that is pretty - what a generous gift.

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  5. That certainly is precious. What a thoughtful, moving gift: to give it to you in the sure knowledge that it would be appreciated and used and loved. That's perfect.

    Thanks for the story today Sheena

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  6. This is truly a precious gift, how wonderful that Sharon thought of you and didn't just send it off to the charity shop, where the history would have been lost. I must check out Sian's blog as I would love to join in with this.
    Lynn x

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  7. Precious indeed, what a wonderful way to honour her mum, and how lovely that Sharon saw in you someone who would be truly appreciative. That you undoubtedly are, is crystal clear.
    x

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  8. What a lovely gift to receive.
    Jo xxx

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  9. A treasure of a bag and such a thoughtful gift. The colours are lovely. You must smile every time you use it!

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  10. That's beautiful - what a great thing for Sharon to do.

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  11. What a sweet story and such a beautiful bag.

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  12. What a wonderful story and a beautiful bag :)

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  13. What a lovely gesture, to pass along such a treasure to someone she knew had a kindred spirit to her mom's.

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  14. What a beautiful story and bag and celebration of a friendship. Some amazing things do happen don't they?

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  15. Wow, this is amazing! What a gorgeous bag and very precious gift :)

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  16. Sheena I'm so touched that you wrote about it and I'm so pleased it's being used. XX

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  17. That is a beautiful story and the quilt bag is amazing x

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  18. wow a beautiful story and bag x

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  19. What a lovely story of friendship and generosity. The bag is magnificent. I have been considering making a bag to hold my quilting bits but I am making it plain! LOL Not much talent here, just joy at making things.

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