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May 15, 2014

Sewing/knitting/ crafting on the road

We have a small 20 foot 5th wheel and hardly any room for a sewing machine. No place to open up fabric and patterns at all. I used to dye and spin wool/knit/rug punch, etc. But now days it's too hard for my hands/arms to do any of that for a length of time.

Have any ideas of what crafting to do while on the road?

Thanks

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  • My wife precuts felt for embroidered Xmas ornaments to be donated to the church's Xmas bazaar. Thread, accessories, and at least a couple dozen of the precut blanks fit in a 8" x 12" x 5" Tupperware container and a mid size tackle tray. Takes a couple hours to make 1. Easy enough to stop at WM and get more felt on the road if need be.
  • My wife has a portable Featherweight sewing machine and a system of boxes for her sewing bits; the boxes fit in the cabover. When she wants to knit or crochet on the road her stuff is neatly kept in plastic boxes and put in the cabover. She only takes one hobby on the road at a time.
  • My wife does cross stitching.
    Always, has a project going and takes up very little space.
    Pat
  • Sewer/quilter/crater here. I have room for a small machine in the TT, I do a lot of the prep work at home-so, I do the piecing on the road, just straight stitch type piecing.
    Depending on the CG, you might be able to use a large table in the community room for cutting/pinning your quilts.
    I got an oil painting kit last year. I've never done that but am anxious to try that. I also really like photography-modern technology makes this very portable.
    We also enjoy music. we have a travel guitar, autoharp, and the most portable of all: harmonicas!
  • We have a 25 foot 5er....spent last winter in Arizona, too. I cut squares of fabric the size I needed and did handwork.....English paper piecing with hexigons. :) Smaller and easier to handle. You can make many designs with those hexis. Check out www.paperpieces.com for the forms and instructions. I'm not affiliated with that website, but I AM helping her income by buying.......:) :) I know a woman that has made a king size quilt with hexies while traveling.

    I've also made a dresden plate quilt buy hand piecing....cut all fabric ahead of time and was ready to hand piece. :)
  • Lefty GF knitted/crochet & did craft items while we traveled FT.
    She taught herself. Rewrote directions to conform to being a lefty.
    Carried a 1940's Singer sewing machine in bedroom closet...set it up on dining room table (pulled it out-used table extension)

    Sold items at CGs and various craft fairs across US

    Underbed storage and her side of closet was where she stored most of her stuff

    Now that we are off the road....she as a craft room FULL :B and does a craft fair most weekends.
  • I dunno. I bought all this yarn, needles, carry case, before I retired this year but while I was still living in fort collins I tried twice to take lessons to crochet at Joanne's, I just couldn't get it. I'm left handed and I could have learned if the teacher would have stayed across from me so I could mirror image her, by the time the class ended she was Side by side...she just didn't get it! But have you tried Pinterest? It has tons of great ideas:)

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