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Pieceful Sunday: Road Trip! Part 2

4/8/2018

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My Home Away from Home
This week in Pieceful Sunday, I am describing Part 2 of my inaugural RV Quilting Road Trip. The road trip was a shake down for the RV Quilting Rally that is coming up this spring. In Part 1 of this series, I discussed some of my adventure, including visiting The Quilt Corner quilt shop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

In this post I am going to describe my quilting experiment. Could I actually quilt while RVing in my small travel trailer?

As you can see my trailer is very small. I like it that way, but quilting inside would be very difficult. I would need to take apart my bed and convert it into table and benches. The bed is designed to do this, but it would be pretty inconvenient to do that everytime I wanted to sew. I decided to work outside. It was a cloudy day, so I scouted out an indoor "sewing room" near the camp laundry room. It had a sturdy table and electricity! In addition, no one seemed to be using it. With a good back-up plan, I started cutting the logs for my log cabin blocks on the picnic table at my campsite.  (I was continuing to work on my40th Anniversary Quilt in a Day Quilt.) See photo below.
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Cutting Outside

It was very easy cutting the logs outside. However, I was particularly careful about labeling the logs carefully. After all I might have to run to the camp laundry room to dodge showers! I labelled each set of logs and then stored them in plastic bags. 
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Organizing Logs for the Log Cabin Blocks

One of the advantages of RV Quilting is that you have visitors!  Below is a photo of one of my two visitors that day. The other visitor was a quilter who stopped by to invite me to the the camp quilt guild. It turns out that every Wednesday the quilters at the camp meet in the camp activity center (another rain venue!) to quilt! Unfortunately, I missed the group by one day, and I was only staying a few days at the campsite. She explained that she and other quilters come to this Florida campground and stay 3-4 months during the winter. Of course, they needed a quilt guild! For future trips, I decided to ask about quilt guilds when I check into camps.
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Morning Visitor

​I set up my sewing machine once all of the logs were cut and organized, and I began sewing. In order to get power, I used an outdoor extension cord and plugged it into my clamshell kitchen at the back of the camper. Some of my first piecing is shown below.
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Sewn Pieces

Just so you don't think that I eat primitively during RV Quilting, here is a photo of my dinner. I made Shrimp Caesar Salad in my clamshell kitchen. Yum! 
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Dinner Is Served!

I have decided that my quilting experiment was a success. Now onto the RV Quilters Rally!

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Thanks for stopping by. If you have questions or comments, please go to comments or contact me by email. 
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Happy Quilting!
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4 Comments
Tish link
4/9/2018 11:35:33 am

That salad looks pretty tasty, I'd say you are eating well on your camping adventures. I think I rather like the idea of sewing outside and it seems your set up worked very well for you. Just curious, did you have to battle breezes at all?

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April link
4/9/2018 11:50:22 am

Excellent question! I was concerned about breezes. That is why I kept the small pieces of fabric in the plastic bags as much as possible. I was afraid that I would be chasing fabric all over the campsite. However on that day, there was no breeze. Lucky me!

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Roseanne link
4/16/2018 09:39:08 am

Hi April,
I was wondering about the wind blowing things around for you as well. It sounds like you are making it work! How fun to have a quilt guild with members of the campground.
~smile~ Roseanne

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Janice link
4/16/2018 08:19:55 pm

Now THAT sounds delightful! How fun that you found a quilt guild i the RV park!

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