Wanabee Quiltin

I take a program I am working on or one I want to start. I am leaving Monday for a long camping trip and I am packing all my Christmas fabric to cut up into squares. When I say all my Christmas fabrics, I mean the red and green, not blue. After I get them cut up and ironed, I will piece. I don't quilt them in a small trailer, too difficult to even sandwich them. I have smaller, cheaper machines I sew with in the trailer.

Barb in Louisiana

I always take sewing stuff. Precutting your pieces saves time & space. I only sew blocks together, so just need, thread, tweezers, (for threading sewing machine) scissors, pins, ripper (haha), small cutting board & square for squaring up HST's, travel iron & ironing pad. Those cutting board, ironing pad combinations are nice. I have a "little" Brother I bought at WalMart that I use for travel. My "big" embroidery Brother gets to stay home unless I am going for several weeks. I can fit all this in a medium plastic storage container.

jeanharville

I take my small Janome with feet and pre-cut projects almost everywhere I go if the stay is a week or longer. These are the tools I take: thread, scissors, snips, rotary cutter (for squaring blocks) small cutting mat, small iron and ironing surface, extra sewing machine needles, pins, elmers washable school glue and glue sticks, seam ripper, wrist pin cushion, and rulers to match the project and measuring tape. I put the precut fabric in plastic bags and the small tools in a small plastic container. Believe it or not, I can get most of this in the wheeled machine tote that has several pockets and the flat things (fabric, cutting board, rulers, ironing board) in the bottom of my suitcases. My daughters-in-law usually have sewing projects for me when I visit because they all know I "have sewing machine, will travel"

leaha

where there is a will there is a way, read about a gal who has log home in MT, in winter they go RVing to a dry camp way out in the desert, she takes her LONG ARM in a cargo trailer they tow behind there RV, she sets things up and does her long arming in the cargo trailer. I figure if she can do that then any of us can figure a way to take a FW or small machine, hand crank would be good for no elec camps. a folding table you could slip under the bed?
It is really hard for me to help you as I have to be in my nest to even teach, I always for get some thing if I teach away from home. Me I would probably set up a special set of things just for the camper, knowing me. Sewing machine, rottery cutter matt ruler, threads, needles iron ripper light nips, any thing I would need. But I am one of those who does not do any thing half way, I'm sorta all or nothing, have tried but I always go overboard, so not much help here, so sorry :-)

buslady

I never leave the house without a sewing project. Couple hour trip, overnight or weeks vacation!! I have sewn in campgrounds and hotel rooms. I have a "go" bag, with hand sewing projects for the car. I even will take hand sewing into a meeting if it is a "sit and lsiten" type meeting. My hands HAVE to be busy! We go up north for weekend getaways and I take sewing with me. I will stay at the cabin and sew for a day while the others go sight seeing! That is my idea of a vacation!! DH is used to it. LOL

smokymtnquilter

We have a seasonal business so we head to FL most winters in our motorhome and I take my sewing machine with me. I work on quilt tops. Also got tired of the curtains in the motorhome so I took them down one winter and made curtains while on the trip. Its something to do on those rainy days. It takes over the dining table but neither of us seem to mind since we eat outside most of the time anyway.

pumpkinpatchquilter

Yes! I quilted on a camping trip! I knew my Husband had to work one day of our trip so while the kids played on the playground I plugged in my featherweight and got to work on a picnic table!! I brought a table cover so my fabric wouldn't get dirty and the essentials - machine, nippers, thread, needles, pins. I didn't press while I was there I brought one of those little wooden pressing sticks, then just pressed my blocks when I came home. I say - take it with you!!

Pat M.

I take my hand crank for when we don't have electric, and the featherweight for when we have a connection. I was able to make several squares between hiking and etc.

francie yuhas

I take my FW,cutting/ironing mat,a project precut and ready,a travel iron,pins,thread,scissors,and "jack the Ripper", and an extension cord. I sewed on the picnic table every day for a week when I was at Sisters quilt show week. I'm camping now...no electricity,I have my GMFG to work on. Beats the hck out of biting off the fingernails of boredom! LOL!

Robbi5

I took quilting stuff with me one year. We use a tent trailer and I set up a folding table outside under the awning. I brought a small travel machine and a travel iron. The only thing I regret bringing was a cutting board... It was a warped mess in the heat. I would precut everything before. Enjoy your camping, I'm sad that I'm not able to go this summer.