Ok, the IMPORTANT packing is done for my trip tomorrow!!! What fun I had doing this!! The 3 tier tote snaps together with a top carrying handle. Got it at Joann's 50% off. The clear colored pouch is where the completed hex's go. It was only a couple of dollars at Joann's. All the paper hex's were cut from scrap paper-the subsciption inserts from magazines I have been saving-figuring that I MIGHT find a use for them! I have wound bobbins with different color thread for piecing so I didn't have to take whole spools and put them in a locking pill box, $1.99 at Joann's, and I have a few suggested (by board members-thank you-) thread cutting tools what SHOULD be allowed by the airlines. I'm set!! Now, I guess I should give some thought to what I will pack in the suitcases--

what a great idea. now that the important things are packed you can concentrate on what is left. Have fun.

Yes, I guess I should tear myself away from the computer and start laundry and packing. DH does all the packing actually, I just get out what I want and put it on the bed-it's his job to make it fit!!! All I worry about is my carry-on, which is a couple of quilting magazines I bought a couple days ago (and made him take them so I wouldn't read them before I left!) and my GFG kit and my pillow!! I have my priorities!!!

Hehe. We are hoping to one day in the next year or two to take a train from Oregon to Georgia. And if we do get to do it, I want to take my sewing machine because it is a 4 day trip on the train...only thing is I don't know if I would be able to use it on a train. But it sure would make the 4 days go by faster. lol

Airwick156 I took a train trip from here to Detroit a couple of years ago would not advise trying to use machine while on train it sways too much. I had a hard time just walking to the dinning car. Hand work was ok.

Have fun on your trip...and I trust you will be able to work on your project during the long flight. Sure will make the time go faster! Make sure you keep your legs and feet exercised, so there won't be any threat of blood clots forming. (That's the nurse in me coming out.)

Have a grea trip!!!!!!!

It's always good to have a road trip project. I did alot of piecing for my GFG while riding in the car. Now I have a tiny tote with tumbler shapes in Civil War fabrics making a charm quilt. Have a wonderful trip and show us your progress!

I love the 3 tiered boxes I use them all the time. i have the large square ones too. What a wonderful idea to create a travel kit!!!

OMG you are so organized- I love it!

I have those containers and love them! I actually have mine organized simular to what you have going on.

Wow, you look ready to go! Have fun!

Been there-done that-the blood clots, I mean-about 3 years ago-DVT's on the flight from LA to NewZealand-about 1 hour before landing. They called the paramedics at the airport who said I was probably just a little dehydrated and needed to eat!! I flew on to Vanuatu and 2 days later, in hospital there and the next day evacuated back to NZ and put in intensive care. Got thru it, though. Guess I'm lucky to be here according to the specialist there. I had multiple clots in both lungs. I now fly business class so I have the leg room and can get up and walk around without disturbing anyone!!

That's scary! Glad you're still around.

I hope you'll post photos of your vacation.

Well, Celeste, It is really NOT a vacation--I own a restaurant there and need to go meet a container of "stuff" we sent over and my manager wants a couple of weeks off, and we are going to paint and re-decorate our "inside" dining room (we also have a large veranda dining room decorated Mexican style--we serve Amercian and Mexican food). I have a staff of 20-all girls!- so I will have my hands full. I DO, however, plan to have some down-time and put away a few margueritas and work on my GFG!!!!! I will post a few photos, though! I leave today, so will be off the board for a couple of days. See ya'all!!

love your travel kit! Great idea. :)

It looks like I'm guilty of assuming "vacation" (or visit family) due to where you're going. Oh well, still enjoy yourself!

It looks like I'm guilty of assuming "vacation" (or visit family) due to where you're going. Oh well, still enjoy yourself!

Well, I'm sitting in the lounge in Fiji waiting for the flight to Vanuatu-I had no problems with my needles or scissors in my kit-no one batted an eye in Los Angele, and they only took them out to look at them in Fiji! Yea! Now I hope I get the same security people on the return flight!
I had a Dritz needle threader/cutter as well, and it will NOT thread my needle!! Maybe it needs a bigger hole needle, but I just took a couple of small ones hoping I could get them thru security-and it worked.

what is a GFG kit?? I've never heard of it.

Grandmother's Flower Garden pattern, and I made a travel kit for all the bits and pieces that I needed to hand-piece it.

That is really neat. You are so organized. :) I really need to get one of those totes for traveling. Thank you so much for mentioning this to me. I missed it before when you had originally posted it. :)