I leave most of my "stash" of wool and yarn at home.

I usually take one project with me, and try to make it one using acrylic yarn and never of one single colour - which I will invariably run out of and not be able to match. Mostly a small or smallish project - i.e. never a large tablecloth or bedspread etc.

If I finish a project while travelling, I buy more yarn at the $2 Shops and start another, but I have to be discplined as I am often tempted to have 2 or 3 on the go like at home.

I have a fabric bag about the size of a pillow case with a drawstring- everything has to fit in that.

These days all of my patterns are electronic - thank you Mr iPad !!

I take hand work only with my quilting. It all has to fit into a bag smaller than a pillowcase. That includes the box with pins, threads and pieces of fabric. I cut everything out before I leave home. We only travel for a few months at a time so it works for me.

I do scrapbooking too but that is impossible to carry it in the van. Too much "stuff"

Books are all on my IPad and if I pick a book up at the laundry I offload it at another laundry.

Goodness knows how I would manage if we lived full time in the van!

Pam

I had a couple of friends who were buying a van, She said "As long as there is room for my sewing machine, I don't care what else there is."

I have packed my sewing machine and my quilting stuff, then again I am on my own so have the extra room. My problem is that I have two queen size quilts to finish off with bindings so will do that while I am here in Sunbury. Kindly been given permission to use the dinning room table. So off to Gisborne today to buy the fabric for the bindings. What a wonderful day it will be to be amongst the fabrics again.

I have 10 embroideries to complete to go in a quilt. Not very complicated, stem stitch or backstitch, French knots simple stuff. 9" x 9"

Hexagons to fill in the gaps in a Margaret Sampson quilt from a magazine, I'm not making the whole quilt. It's 7 gorgeous fabrics about 12 " oval, mine are a hodgepodge of colour and subject, really ...your choice,each surrounded by 18 x 1" hexagons finished, can be toning colours to frame the gorgeous fabrics or contrasting. Most of mine have cream background, one is an owl with a decided Japanese look so he has Japanese fabric hexagons, another is a funny yellowy colour of a lady in a patchwork shop holding bolts of fabric, I have 3 blue, or blue greys, 3 pinky reds to raspberry and 1 yellowy almost citrine wouldn't have thought they'd go together.

I buy the 1" hexagons 100 for $6, can use several times as I don't stich into them.
It will eventually be used on my Oak barley twist gate leg table, which needs regluing as it's wobbly.
In a past life someone has used it as an ironing table with a wood fire iron and left it to burn it's outline into the table top.

Like the idea of the pillowcase to restrict amount carried....discipline

My sewing machine and overlocker are with me as this is our home too . I have taken over the whole of under the bed, under my dinette seat and we have built a shelf in the back of the Cruiser where I slide 4 "under bed" rolly boxes. My haberdashery is all stored in plastic lunch boxes which pack nicely into the rolly boxes. When we stop for any length of time I have a set of those pack down plastic shelves (from the dollar shop) to put my supplies on. I made a sewing compendium with pockets for my scissors, pins, markers, tape etc so that's all in one handy carry bag. I also crochet and knit, hand and machine embroider. I scanned most of my patterns and craft leaflets into my laptop before we became permanent van dwellers (I also backed them all up on HD) I am very good at Tetris and it shows by my packing  Fortunately my husband has no "bulky" hobbies.