More Photos from the Kuwait Friday Market

More photos of the Kuwait Friday market!

....the carpet aisle

I've never seen such huge carpets!  

I see a quilting design in the purple one too.

(These were my hosts LeAnn and Cecilia btw)

....kettles!

....hairdryers

....shoes

.. a fire extinguisher?

...and a few bikes!




and ooh .....a trio of disc drives - bet they dont work!

Orphan Sewing Machines

Look what I found while I was tidying up my photo library. 

I took these pictures earlier this year in Kuwait at the outdoor Friday market. 

A market that must hold the record for the largest and hottest car boot sale ever! 

 40deg plus and no wind didn't stop me meandering around all the pitches though.  

You could get anything and everything from a Rolex to a half-used tube of toothpaste! 

One of the best places I've ever been!

Is it cheating?

Detail: When Maybugs Fly by Pam Carter: Quilted by Tracey Pereira

You may have noticed that I haven't blogged in quite some while. Well I've not been idle .. in fact I have been busy ... very busy.  This weekend was my first weekend off in around 12 weeks  and even then that wasn't strictly true because I ended up packing some orders and getting them into the post office before midday.

I love being busy but I really enjoyed not having a schedule to work to this weekend. It was on my terms .. if you know what I mean.  So on Saturday afternoon I took myself off to a local quilt show ... as a visitor!

 Aldwick Quilters over in West Sussex is a very talented group and their show was just wonderful. Of course I forgot my camera so I can't show you any photos but trust me when I say the exhibition was worth visiting.  Whilst I was there though I overheard one of the ladies talking about longarm quilting

... "it's cheating really though isn't it? "  she said to her friend.

 I didn't get involved in the conversation ... as much as anything because I had quilted the raffle quilt, but it did get me thinking about a couple of other comments I have heard recently.

 A couple of my newbie patchwork students visited a show a couple of weeks back and told me about a local Hampshire quilt shop owner who questioned "why would you not finish your own quilts?"  when they mentioned longarm quilting to her,  and another lady at the Friday afternoon group I go to who told me her applique doll quilt wasn't suitable for longarm quilting.

 Uhm ... am I wrong or do we need to start educating the UK quilters about the benefits of longarm quilting again?

and the winner is ....

The  blog giveaway for 15 FQ's of Where the Wind Blows by Melly and Me 

ended last night so that means we should have a winner 

 ... and indeed we do !  

The winner of the 15 FQ's of Where the Wind Blows by Melly and Me is

drum roll ......

drumming noise..........

  more drumming noise....

yet more  drumming noise..........

ok annoying drumming noise...........

Will you stop with the drumming noise...?

Harrysmum!

Congratulations Harrysmum!

If you would like to get in touch with me and let me have your smail mail

I will post the winnings to you tout-suite!

So is anyone feeling  disappointed they didn't win?  

 I am sorry only one winner there can be  .... (young padawan)

BUT 

to ease the let down

 the Where the Wind Blows FQ set is on special today and tomorrow

20% off and free postage for UK deliveries   

Click here to go the the daily special page on the website.

A HUGE great BIG thank you to everyone that took part in the giveaway.  

I will be running more so keep looking in to see what's brewing!

So enough said ... onwards and upwards and a sneak peak at what is coming in April.....

  

Celebrating Deadlines!

I was up until 2am this morning ! 

Why?

I have a deadline to meet.

Why?

I have to get a quilt ready for an exhibition.

Why?

Because I said I would enter a quilt.

Why?

Good question!

It opens Friday ... THIS week! 

Am I ready?

No ... BUT I will be !  

I am off to Dublin on Thursday for the Quilters Guild of Irelands weekend retreat.

 I'm teaching. (Remember the drunkards paths I had to cut and pack up?). 

The theme for the exhibition this year is CELEBRATE.  

Talk about lack of inspiration for this one  ....

  but then it hit me! 

 Jumping for joy and celebrating LIFE itself.   

And talking of deadlines ... 

don't forget my blog giveaway

There are 15 FQ's of Where the Wind Blows by Melly and Me closes up for grabs.

You have until midnight (GMT) tonight  to enter !

So hop over here and enter the giveaway.  

Where is the Cat in the Hat when you need him?

Last week Mrs Quilt me Happy was busy. 

In fact she was so busy the week past in a blur.  

Mr Moda Man came to visit with a big bag of lovely fabrics, 

jelly rolls and charm packs.

Mrs Quilt Me Happy was VERY happy but when Mr Delivery Man turned up 

Mrs Quilt me Happy went into a bit of a  'tiss'  trying to find storage S P A C E

 She wished she had a magic cupboard just like QUILTSUE 
but not a spare corner could be found 


so Mrs Quilt ME Happy had to spend the week 

sorting

rearranging, cutting and folding. 

Mrs Quilt Me Happy got very bored of this though and  took a break 

to play dressing up and wore  Mrs Pattern Writer and Mrs Teacher hats 
for a while

After she had made another big FAT MESS... 

 she  started to get clean and tidy

 Mrs Quilt me Happy was very pleased 
and sat down to rest feeling very happy.