Quilting on-the-go

It is April already! Snow has almost melted and spring is coming in big steps.

Lately, my work requires me to travel to another city. A lot.
That was enough incentive for me to pull out my travel quilting -kit. I am in the progress of slowly assempling a hexagon quilt. Mainly while travelling. The quilt has been all over Europe and twice to London.

Have you been quilting while traveling? Do you have  a travel project? Do you have any special memories involed quilting on the road?

My favourite memory is sitting in London Hyde Park, enjoying the sun and stitching some hexagons. It was great!

 I have a huge stack of these black and white fabrics already basted around cardboard hexagons. You can see in the picture, that I use bright green and red basting thread, these are easy to see and then to remove later.


At first I sew two of these hexagons together.
And then I sew two double hexagons together to form a diamond.

 The diamonds are sewn into strips and these are later attached to the "mother ship", which is too large to take on travels (about 1.2 m x 0.8 m).












Here is my kit. The turquoise box is from a famous plastic box seller and everything I need fits neatly inside. I have some needles, scissors black thread and red basting thread, extra cardboard hexagons, pre cut fabrics (I use square cut about 10 cm x 10 cm, I like the extra fabric on the back for extra warmth). And of course a stash of about 40 basted hexagons at the moment.

I think this quilt will end up looking very modern and masculine. 

Have a good spring everybody and let me know what you are sewing on!