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i have been taking my sewing machine along camping with me for several years. I love sitting outside at the picnic table sewing and watching people adn what ever wlse is going on. i can a lot accomplised while camping It is very relaxing for me.
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Originally Posted by Sharon321
Originally Posted by Oklahoma Suzie
I have never been camping. I stay home and sew.
This camping with all the benfits of home. No tent camping for me. |
Please tell me more about this battery operated machine. I would love to get one for my granddaughter! Also it would be good camping here in Maine. We have a popup camper with electricity etc etc
OmaForFour
Originally Posted by Up North
Originally Posted by dgsmom
I'm glad to hear that i'm not the only one that does this. I take my sewing machine with me. i actually made a king size quilt top for a friend in a 33' travel trailer. i have had alot of people ask me why i take mine and i tell them that it is relaxing to me to work on a top and look out the windows and watch the ducks and geese on the water. i also have a friend that goes camping and sometimes she will bring her machine over to my place and we will sew together for hours while husbands are out on the boat.
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http://www.amazon.com/Continental-CE...9536344&sr=8-2
Here is one similar to the one I purchased. This one is even cheaper and it says double thread so it is a lock stitch. The one I bought I found at Rite Aid at christmas time. |
I have a friend whose DH took out the front bed & converted it to her sewing room in the camper!!
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Thank you so much! I will look into it.
OmaForFour
Originally Posted by Up North
http://www.amazon.com/Continental-CE...9536344&sr=8-2
Here is one similar to the one I purchased. This one is even cheaper and it says double thread so it is a lock stitch. The one I bought I found at Rite Aid at christmas time. |
Oh I plan on mine going in that fifth wheel! If I don't use it, so what,it is there if we have a slow minute...if not, it will work better when I get home!! DH has PROMISED me a trip to Tennessee to research my family this summer (he promised last year too, but....) So it is coming with us!
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You need to have some time for you and what fun to get your grandkids hooked on some stichen!
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Originally Posted by sewgull
Originally Posted by Sharon321
Originally Posted by Oklahoma Suzie
I have never been camping. I stay home and sew.
This camping with all the benfits of home. No tent camping for me. |
I have 2 sewing machines, I have one that I take if I go to my quilting classes at the senior center and I also take it camping with me... You never know if it rain while camping I can alway do my quilting after I have my DH take me to the LQS.
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I'm a Jersey Girl who "snowbirded" in FL in a 5th wheel for about 5 yrs and I always took my machine. Actually I bought it in FL the first year out and took lessons from the LQS. Now we live in FL and summer in our 5th wheel in NJ to be near the g'kids. I take my Janome 760 and try to make up and take only "kits" of what I'd like to accomplish. Last year I didn't get much quilting done, but I did make about 25 or so superhero capes for my grandson's birthday party. Boy was I glad I had it, cause I was the behind-the-scenes superhero! The hugs I got WOW.
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Originally Posted by Sharon321
Originally Posted by Oklahoma Suzie
I have never been camping. I stay home and sew.
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YOu certainly made memories from that visit. That is what it is all about. thanks for sharing the pictures .
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What fun
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i have reached the point where my idea of roughing it is the holiday inn....
they have power & i have brought my machine on vacation with me... |
Quilt Retreats are my vacation/.
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Never taken my machine camping. We alway's pretty much roughed it even though we had a pop-up trailer for 15 years. Too busy hiking, fishing, and enjoying communing with nature.
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I've taken mine camping. I set it up outside under the awning on the picnic table. It's relaxing, great light and lots of fresh air. You meet lots of curious people who wonder what your doing.
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I haven't taken mine camping as our travel trailer is small 15' I think. We're looking into getting a bigger one, but until then I don't plan to. I did buy a Singer portable Red Eye at a flea market in VA, does that count :)
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Originally Posted by wvdek
Never taken my machine camping. We alway's pretty much roughed it even though we had a pop-up trailer for 15 years. Too busy hiking, fishing, and enjoying communing with nature.
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Originally Posted by Shelia
We're leaving next Thursday for 5 days to go on our Annual Spring Break Camping Trip. Our grandchildren will be with us, along with our two dogs. I'm all about the hiking, walking, bike riding, dutch oven/over the fire cooking and kite flying. My grandchildren have even nicknamed me "Action Granny".
Well, I asked my hubby last night "if I take my sewing machine, will it pull too much current from the electrical box?" We have a small travel trailer and I could set my machine up on the table. He says "no, I'll just run an extension cord directly to your machine...WHAT???? You're going to take your sewing machine camping?????" Like that was a bad thing! Like it's something that has never been done before. Has anyone ever taken their sewing machine camping with them? Mine will miss me terribly. Shelia |
When we finally started camping without kids I used to take hand work with me. Then we got our motorhome and DH said quote, " If you take that sewing machine in the MH, I'm leaving." I never did.
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sniff sniff.. waaaahhh haaaaaaaa I won't be doing any camping this summer with a small infant!!! Trevor and I loooove to camp and hike and enjoy the great outdoors.
I have never taken my sewing machine with me as it is hard to plug it into a tree (we camp in a tent) LOL, but I think I have taken some small hand sewing projects with me. usually it doesn't get looked at cause we are too tired from all the hiking and exploring we tend to do during the day. By the time we get back to our camp site for supper we are too tired to do anything besides sit by the fire, eat supper and sip a glass of wine :) |
I would be afraid to take my machine camping. Possibility of it getting damaged. Besides you are there to camp and spend time with the grand children. Sew when you get home.
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Originally Posted by Quilting Aggi
sniff sniff.. waaaahhh haaaaaaaa I won't be doing any camping this summer with a small infant!!! Trevor and I loooove to camp and hike and enjoy the great outdoors.
I have never taken my sewing machine with me as it is hard to plug it into a tree (we camp in a tent) LOL, but I think I have taken some small hand sewing projects with me. usually it doesn't get looked at cause we are too tired from all the hiking and exploring we tend to do during the day. By the time we get back to our camp site for supper we are too tired to do anything besides sit by the fire, eat supper and sip a glass of wine :) |
My little Featherweight is the first thing to be loaded when we head out in our fifth wheel. We winter in Texas and I wouldn't dream of being without my machine. Course it may not be considered real camping-more like living in an RV. On rainy days or when DH is out on his scooter, I can always be found inside behind the little Singer.
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I'll be bringing my singer featherweight this week - Spring Break - we're going to a bayside cabin. I figured I could get in a lot of piecing done. Who know's if it will happen, but the intent is there. Also I know of 2 Quilt shops nearby...
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I would like to hve a feather weitht for my RV.
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We tent camp so there is no sewing machine, but if I had a camper.....even a small one it would go with me.
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I have note, but that would be a wonderful thing to do. Penny
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I'm an international flight attendant. I used to take my machine on layovers. I even kept a machine at one particular hotel I stayed at a lot so I didn't have to carry it back and forth! I think anywhere you can relax and do what you enjoy doing is a good thing. Take it and quilt away!
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