Essential Supplies to Pack in Your Travel Quilt Kit

As a quilter, have you ever been caught at a retreat and not had the supply that you need? It happened to me just once, it'll never happen again. I decided to make up my handy dandy emergency quilters kit. So what I have in my little quilters kit is I threw in a pair of they're embroidery scissors that I can also use for cutting away applique. Never know when I'm gonna have to use my color pencils. I might wanna use them for marking. I might wanna use them just to do seam entangling and doodling if I find myself with a few extra minutes. I have a little piece of stabilizer just in case I come into something that a pattern that might need the stabilizer. I don't bring too much of it along. I bring a little mystique fuse. I of course have my handy-dandy tape because if we're gonna be a paper piecing at all we wanna make sure that if we make a mistake we have that tape to fix the pattern. I bring a pencil, I bring a Sharpie, I bring a pen and I have a variety of threads. A lot of people will just throw one type of thread in. I have King Tut thread by Superior Threads. I have So Fine by Superior Threats. I have an Ultra Iris Cotton Quilting Thread and I try to keep my threads neutral in color. And the reason for that being is they won't show up on anything then. They're really nice for piecing. The only problem that I might have is if I decide to machine quilt something and with my domestic, it may not show up on there. So I have all of those. I also bring a rotary cutter. Now I tend to like to bring the rotary cutter. This one is pressure sensitive. So if I press down, that's when it opens up there isn't an open switch on it. So if I release the pressure what happens is it'll go back into its little safety net and I don't have to ever worry about reaching in and grabbing it by the blade. That's why I have that one in there. I bring an assortment of needles and these needles are for my, my sewing machine. I have I've range all the way from the eights all the way up to twelves. And I bring an entire pack. Cause if I'm going to be using them, I have to I have to think that I there's a possibility I could break a needle. So I wanna make sure I have everything on hand. And every needle is used for something different. I have quilting needles and I have piecing needles in there. I also bring an eraser because if I'm gonna be drawing or if I'm gonna be marking with a pencil for any reason I wanna make sure that I can get that mark off. I bring, bring some prewound bobbins along and I have this really great. This scissors has got a little serrated edge on it. It's really good for making very close cuts. If I'm doing applique or something like that. Then I have a sheers that's a little bit heavy duty. This is for cutting larger pieces. This is if I decide that I wanna maybe do some sewing and and I want to not just quilt but actually make maybe an article of clothing. So I'll use my scissors versus my versus my rotary cutter for that. I make sure that I have a good supply of pins with and I also wanna make sure that I always have a tape measure along. I have hand sewing needles and I have Elmer's glue. Elmer's glue is great, you can use it for your binding. You can use it if you've got those tricky places where you have seams that you just, they just seem to slip. I just put a little dab there and it keeps them in place. Then I can pin. And I know they're gonna come out just perfect. I always use the washable disappearing Elmer's glue. And I also have two of those because when someone sees me using it, they'll always say let me try that. So then I have it for them as well. I have this little light, it's a little light for that I can use to thread my needle. And there's a needle threader right there. Like it just comes out so I can thread the eye of the needle. And I've got the, the light on hand. Now, if you're gonna bring a rotary cutter the rotary cutter doesn't do you any good if you end up running over a pin. So I always bring a spare supply of rotary blades but as well as the rotary blades, I wanna bring a supply a little box that says used because I wanna have a place to put the used rotary blades. I always bring a good supply of marking tools I have in here. There are some chalk marking tools. They're disappearing, ink marking tools. I have a little bodkin. So for any reason, I want to go through a seam and pull a say a piece of elastic or a little bit of a little bit of rope or twine through. I'm able to do that. And what would sewing be without the unsewing scuttled seam ripper. We wanna make sure that we have that along. And we always wanna have a little bit of skincare. We work so much with our quilty needs. Our hands are with that fabric all the time. What happens is it starts wearing away the oils on your skin. And that's why you get all those little cracks make sure that you stay well hydrated. And I have a pin cushion. There's a few other things that I have in here. They're not necessary but I certainly think that I need them. I have a pencil sharpener, that I utilize and I have this tweezers and the tweezer works really great. Sometimes you'll get that little thread that might be caught down in your bobbin area. You wanna be able to get a, get that out. And if your fingers are a little bit too cumbersome at times, I always bring that along. This also works good as a stiletto to help push your fabric through if you have a point, a small piece of point. And then I have a little thread nipper. So I hope that you go on and you decide that you would like to have a little emergency kit too. It just is so helpful. I'm not always trying to second guess myself when I'm heading to the retreat or to the sewing day with my quilt guild. I just pick up the box. I know everything that I need is in it. I bring my sewing machine. I bring my little portable iron and I'm set to go. There's no hims, hers or what's about it. I am ready to go and ready to sew. So I hope that you develop a nice little kit for yourself.