McDONOUGH — One would think that Teresa Smith’s experience as a little girl watching her grandmother, then her mother, anchor pieces of fabric together to make a memorable quilt would have been her foundation into the art.

But Smith was nearly 20 years old when she began developing her passion for the skill.

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Black Beauty is one of two quilts that Teresa Smith, a finalist for the Georgia Celebrates Quilts competition, submitted for its show. Smith used a combination of paper piecing and traditional piecing for the curves of this quilt.

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Meadow, is one of two quilts that finalist Teresa Smith created for the Georgia Celebrates Quilts competition being held at the Cobb County Civic Center on 548 South Marietta Parkway in Marietta from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, June 9 to Saturday, June 11.

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