How do you carry your WIP?

[Ann_]

I used to have a very good carry bag for my WIP. But it started to get old, zipper broke and the plastic sheets to put cardboard bobbins in started to split.

[Angel]

I don't have a special way. Mines in a magazine in my laptop bag at the moment.

[Kute Kitty]

MIL bought me a special carrier last Christmas, with various sized charts, most of them zipped, for carrying everything I need. It's been to Kent (where the in-laws live) and back a few times and it's great

[Lisa]

all of them (except the haeds) are in one of these, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0322307223" target="_blank" target="_blank , all the threads are bobbined up and marked

and then the haeds are in these, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0383854091" target="_blank" target="_blank , with its own bobbin box and the folder with the pattern in

[ohstitcher]

My current WIP is in a tote bag, I must say that the pattern is getting really worn so I made a working copy and the pattern book stays home now.

[naystitches]

For traveling projects, I put the piece, chart and hoop in a ziploc bag and just put it in a tote bag with the bobbin box. Projects on scroll frames stay in the house usually. I'll just move the lap stand to where ever I feel like working.

Renee

[Branlaadee]

My individual wips are each in plastic mesh project bags of varying sizes, depending on how big they are. The fabric, chart and floss (in floss-a-way bags on rings) fit perfectly. Sometimes I take them out that way, sometimes I put them in a tote bag if I have other stuff to carry around too.

[K1nS]

Well, if its a kit that I am working on then I normally just keep putting it back in the packaging and just keep it in my stitching bag. If its just a chart etc. then I keep the chart and the actual project in my stitching bag and I have a seperate bobbins box for my threads.

[Cecilia]

Well, if its a kit that I am working on then I normally just keep putting it back in the packaging and just keep it in my stitching bag. If its just a chart etc. then I keep the chart and the actual project in my stitching bag and I have a seperate bobbins box for my threads.

Hey Hey. That's exactly what I do.

[Lessa54]

My current one is a kit, so it goes back in its packaging and then in a plastic carrier bag for transport I do make sure it's a nice carrier bag though, not a food shopping one...

[Lisa2758]

I've got different things for my WIPs. At the moment I'm using a small Estee Lauder totebag one of my daughters gave me - a free gift from when she worked as a beautician. It's quite big so I've got pattern, fabric, Really Useful box for bobbins, thread holder, frame and one of those A4 plastic wallets plus a pencil case for highlighters, fabric marking pen, needles, scissors etc. I did have a basket but one of the dogs drops his ball in for me to play with him and my work kept getting dirty and threads kept sticking to the soggy ball so I've abandoned that.

I'm not keen on the A4 wallets though because they make the fabric smell weird.

[andrea42]

I have all the ones that im ready to do with fabric cut and charts in 3 gallon size freezer bags, the ones im working on are the same in a tote bag, i have a pencil box that holds the hilighters, scissors, pencil and whatever in it, since i have a huge car carrying case that i keep all my floss in i just get into that when i need a color and if it is small enough that im gonna take it with me then i just grab about 2 or 3 of the colors on bobbins and put them in there so i can work on them, as I only do one color on an entire page as it is so its easier for me. I have some that dont have lots of colors and i bought those cards that have the holes on them and you write the number on them and i carry that along as well if needed.

[Sarah Gixxer]

Mine vary - if I have made up my own kit from a photograph converted to a chart, or from a chart in a mag or something, I keep the pattern, the fabric and the bobbins with the appropriate threads on in a ziplock bag.

If it's a kit (such as my Lanarte sunflowers that I received last Christmas) I keep it in the original packet it came in.

My HAED has a special bobbin box for all its 90 colours, the zillion pages of chart are divided up into rows and each row is in a plastic pocket and the fabric itself which I keep on the frame as I work on it nearly every day, is on top of a cabinet with a clean towel under it and another on the top to keep dust and dog hairs off.

[Dazbo666]

My small scroll frame is the only one that leaves the house... usually inside a holdall or backpack, and tucked in between a clipboard (which holds the working copy of the current chart) and some magazines. The bobbins are on a metal craft ring, and kept with the pens etc in a side pocket.

My larger projects (the ones that stay at home) are in plastic storage boxes, roughly A3 in size...

[burgundyice]

I've just started bringing my HAED in to work to stitch before I start & at lunch time, it's folded in a "strong" carrier with just the page I'm currently on and the card with the threads I need - the whole 90 colours take up 10 cards but all of the background colours are just on one. Thinking of getting one of those cloth shoulder bags for it though.

Louise

[~threadbear~]

I have a little padded bag for card size projects but for anything else I just use a carrier bag This isn't working well though, so I need something more appropriate ... I'm hoping to get good idea's from all of you now.

[kerbear879]

I actually keep mine in the plastic bags they give you when you checkout from the store.. I keep telling myself I really should buy a tote bag or something to put my stuff in!

[~threadbear~]

That's the same as me Kerri!
I made the mistake of keeping a full Pako needle thingy in it with my project though, and that didn't work well at all.

Those tote bags Lisa put a link to look reasonably priced.

[Mabel Figworthy]

I have a little bag which was a free gift, I think it was meant to be a cool bag of sorts, about 12x6x6 inches with an extra pocket on the top and several small ones round the side. The top flap holds my fabric scissors, a ruler, peacock scissors, 2 or 3 flexi hoops and a pencil and rubber. the small side pockets are empty but the front one holds little sealable bags with my stash of gold-plated needles in sizes 24, 26 and 28.
The big inside space is filled with (from the bottom working up):
a few aperture cards
narrow double-sided tape
tweezers
a piece of wadding
small sealable bags with ribbon (mostly sheer, some silk, some satin)
flower-pot buttons
bead containers
a piece of card covered in foil (just as a separator)
some small kits (a bookmark and some magazine kits)
two sealable bags of small pieces of different fabric/vinylweave/paper/aida band
3 calligraphy fountain pens (narrow medium and broad)
stitched needle case

This I take on long holidays; for emergency stitching in waiting rooms I have a few pieces of raw linen with snowflake motifs in white only which I carry in a sealable bag with a cheap thread cutter. One day all four will be finished and they'll become a rather elegant set of coasters .

For short trips like a vintage car weekend I may pack a slightly larger sealable bag with a flexi-hoop ready with fabric and a simple design with not too many colours.

[Granny]

This thread is leading me back to quilting projects. I need to modify a few UFOs to make into carry bags for my cross stitch WIPs. That way I will be able to pick up a project when we take an unexpected road trip, like right now, and I have no stitching with me. Currently everything is in nothing dedicated as I have just nicely resurrected my cross stitch interest but want to make it my primary, rather than secondary craft or art form.