We’re roadtripping this month.  Lucky me, I’m spending November at a beachfront condo on the Florida Panhandle between Rosemary Beach and Alys Beach.  Ed and I are both self employed, so we figured out a few years before COVID even was a rumor that we can throw the computers in the trunk and work from anywhere.

After so many years of mostly air travel, it’s a treat to be able to load up the trunk with art goodies to use, especially since once we get there, we’ll be staying in place.  Still, there’s a limit, right?  I mean I still have to have room for clothes, that work stuff, even some pre-cooked food to keep me out of the kitchen.

How do YOU decide?
I always have a lot of projects and wide focus, but I got it down to these two bags

Here’s what made the cut (you can see the photos up above)

  • Three table runners pieced and machine quilted from my holiday fabric stash bag – just need quilting threads tied off and binding hand-sewed.
  • A new knitting project with some yarn that’s been in my stash forever, plus examples of roll-up placemats with appliqued veggies that I’ll demo online for my quilt guild’s monthly meeting
  • Those beads and stones I’ve been meaning to string into new malas since the spring
  • Some nice watercolor paper and my travel kit
  • A mixed media pad and a couple of buckets of markers and colored pencils and whatnot
  • Twelve blocks prepped for an  English Paper Piecing project, a modern curvy version based on my class with @carolina_oneto

What’s missing?  Supplies to work on my #paperpalscollage projects or my #handmadebookclub projects  –  meaning collage ephemera, bookboard, papaer, paper, paper, maybe a sewing machine, I could go on and on but you can’t have everything and hard choices had to be made!   I’ll catch up on those next month when I’m back home in Chicago.