Well today's thrift store runs gave us many options... hubby picked up a couple pairs of shorts, I got a shirt and picked up a little ironing board, not the half size one but a tiny tabletop one smaller than that to take to my Mom's, she has one of the built in ones upstairs so it will be nice to have one downstairs where I'll be working. Couple of pieces of fabric yardage on tag day to fill out the one box. Looks like I am keeping one piece, I was suspect of it before I did my a burn test but it came back as cotton. It has a tag in a Cyrillic alphabet and clearly a hand written 2, we have a lot of Ukranians in the area... anyway it is a large swirly abstract floral print in mostly blues and purples and some brush strokes of white showing through, the fabric is a meter wide and 2 long. It is a stash add but cool!
Friday is Mom's surgery. I figure I won't go out on Tuesday, but will go Wednesday and be there all day Thursday before surgery on Friday. I'm going through my stuff, pulling out my portable sewing machine (note to self: bring extension cord just in case), etc. to pack the car. Will plan on being there for two weeks straight, and then home a couple of days a week until she's on the mend. Last year's surgery was major and took months to recover, this will be a much smaller procedure and my brother is living there now as well so I'm hoping it won't be months and months. I'd like to come home Saturdays to go bowling with the hubby Sunday morning, stay Monday and then leave after small group on Tuesdays if that works out after the first couple of weeks.
So I'll have the purple top to work on, that's already packed and ready to go. My portable sewing box has most stuff, I'll need to throw in a couple extra spools of thread and bobbins in different colors. I'll be taking out a cutting board and several rulers, my big pincushion is packed, a couple of boxes/bags of fabrics to work on, including the bright wonky 9-patch for the next project. Need to find one more set of project fabric which is collected in a bag somewhere (the little easter project) and I'll have plenty to work on, I also grabbed my middle of the night insomnia knitting project just because.
I've also printed out a list of my passwords and such, I don't know if I'll be posting from there or not. If I disappear for a bit -- I'll be back when I'm back home!
For those that travel with sewing often, give me any hints/reminders of what to take
