Those bags are adorable! I would love to just take a workshop. I haven't been able to carve out time for art recently but going to a workshop will make me.

I love those bags and the cute iron too!  I'm going to the beach for a week with my husband and brother and I'm already fretting over what supplies to pack.  If I had my druthers, I'd pack my supplies in the big suitcase and my clothes in the little one.  That way, I might reach for something and it might be there.  I want to sketch sunsets and seabirds and children playing in the sand.

I looking forward to the new issue of Studios since I do a lot of traveling!!!  This summer I will be

returning to QBL (Quilting by the Lake) in NY state to take two weeks of classes with Jane Dunnewold--Wow, am I excited!  I have been attending QBL for the past 5 years and really love the atmosphere and classes available.  However, since investing in several of your QA workshops, I am thinking of skipping a few years of QBL ($2000+) and keep on taking advantage of your enlightening and well-produced workshops ($20+) which I can enjoy and rewatch in my own home.   Ginny

This summer I plan on exploring the technique of marbling fabric.  Something I've wanted to try for quite a while but just haven't gotten to yet.

Whenever I travel, I load my pack with a bunch of sketchbooks. There is constant inspiration in new places and all I really need is a pen and a pad of good paper. I'll be in West Virginia sketching the deep, amazing vegetation and in Northern Michigan capturing the delicious lake views. When I get home, I fill them with color to bring my line sketches to life! That way I extend my vacation by reliving it in my drawings.

My husband bought me a backpack quite a few years ago. I keep a sketchbook, pens, pencils, colored pencils, erasers, small water color set and watercolor crayons in it. Whenever I need to get creative, I grab a water bottle, strap on the bag and go for a walk around the forest preserves by my house. Always something interesting to see. This year we are going to Florida - end of June! We are driving and stopping on our way. A whole new area of the world to discover!  I am also going to bite the bullet and try dyeing my own fabric. Also trying dye painting!

I looove Misty Fuse!

This summer I am making a horse-themed bed quilt for my daughter who will be going away for school this fall.  I'd probably even share the bags with her; teal is her favorite color ( she is also a crafty kid).

I am determined to make MORE TIME for ART!  This month's goal will be to post on my blog every day - which means I must make art to have something to talk about!  LOL

 :-D eirdre

Love the bags! My summer plan is to rust fabric. I've been collecting rusty objects and am waiting for a hot and humid day to try it. I babysit my nephews (ages 6 1/2 and 8) on Wednesdays and we're going to have "Art Camp With Aunt Cindy" for a couple of hours every week.

Oh, my goodness, what adorable travel bags!  I'm giong to find a babysitter for my kids every Tuesday and attend a quilting class in town.  It's a great getaway and sooo much fun to learn!  

The bags hold so much I could use it to go to the beach this summer. I have already began to put aside outdoors art pieces to finish. I have projects that need hand sewing , beading, and embelishing so I carry a bag with embroidery thread sissors , beads and embelishings . Tis way i keep my hands busy with projects over the summer and not be stuck in front of the sewing machine (i'll keep that for the rainy days). I also like to bring my scetch book with various pencils, charcoals, crayons  to record any scenic wonders or inspirations for future pojects.

Love the yellow satchel style bag. Really want to see how it opens up.  

I'm on disability for degenerating discs and OA, and miss my hiking days.  I desperately need to get back outdoors, in some capacity, and get reinspired by Nature.  I'm sure that bag would carry my digital camera, field notebooks, and baggies to collect leaves or flower heads. Modeling clay to make molds.  

Nature here I come.  [Oh! It'll be a dawdle, to be sure, but it's a mind body spirit thing.]

Love the colors on the bags and the iron.  I am spending the summer  learning to transfer my photos onto fabric and incorporate them into some sewing  projects.  I am comfortable with my photography and sewing but this amalgamation will be new to me.

I'm filling my suitcase with fabric and sewing stuff, grabbing my sewing machine and going with a group of friends to a cabin in the middle of nowhere to "quilt till we wilt" for an extended weekend!

I spend my summers working on art project samples for a group of teen mothers completing their high school education.  I try to push their idea of what art is (scrap booking) with all wonderful mixed media art forms people are using and trying.  I have several groups and individuals who provide me with new and leftover supplies because with 19 girls, nothing last long.

I'm getting ready for an art show in October, where I will sell my fancy greeting cards.  I am a professional musician, and my music-themed cards are my best sellers, and are more and more in demand.  I am working at a choir camp for a week this summer, but will have some good chunks of free time while there.  My plan is to take all of my musical doodads and paper and sparkly stuff and make only music related cards.  I can't wait to have dedicated time and space for this!  

I am going to the beach for a week in August. I intend to paint  with my acrylics and hopefully work on needlefelting - a new passion. Would LOVE one of these carry alls

My art goal for the summer is a complete reorganization of my workspace.  And, of course, I hope to actually get some work done, too, and finish up a couple of embellishment projects!  I'm looking forward to the article about packing for art away from home; that's always been a challenge for me.

My husband and I just moved into our first house and I get a room all to myself, my craftiness and my books! We've only been married for a year and a half and for a year of it we've been living with his parents. My poor spinning wheel was in our closet and all my craft supplies were in boxes in the basement!! I'm in the process of unpacking and organizing all my glorious and greatly missed crafty items, and plan to have it all done ASAP. This summer I plan on reconnecting with my spinning wheel to spin up some angora fibers my grandma sent (I've never spun angora before!) and will be finishing some projects that were put on hold during our cloistered existence in the in-laws house! It's going to be an artsy summer!

These look really great! I will be travelling to Germany this summer to visit family and the places where I grew up. I will mostly use my camera and a sketchbook to record my impressions and will hopefully translate it into great art once I'm back, maybe a whole series of art quilts will emerge!

Regina

I am making it a priority to finally visit the LOCAL museums/studios/etc. Like the Quilt Museum in San Jose or everything in San Francisco I never manage to get to see. It seems crazy to live so close to all this art and never see it!

I will be going to the NQA Quilt Show in Columbus, OH and working with my new long arm quilt machine. (I'm so excited; it will be delivered tomorrow!)  I am a pack rat and have a lot of storage cases, but none are as cute as the ones pictured.

I am having two grandsons this summer one in July and one in August.  I am very busy making baby quilts right now.   My art travels are kind of in reverse.  I live on an island full of artists and art schools and I am going to Tacoma and Seattle Washington to baby sit  the new baby's older siblings ages 1 1/2, 4 and 6 years..  My art projects will be done with color crayons and finger paints.  But of course they will be all one of a kind originals and hung proudly on my fridge.

I too am drooling over those wonderful craft carry all bags.  The kids have to sleep sometime and grandma will need art to unwind.

Happy creativity

Whidbey

This summer I get to TAKE a workshop and teach 2. Next week I'm off to ProChemical & Dye for a week with Carol Soderlund. Then 2 weeks at the beach with family and art time for me. At the end of July I'm headed to Idyllwild, CA, teaching in the idyllic San Jacinto mountains of Southern California. I'll end the summer teaching  at the Fabrications retreat in Michigan. Wow! I'm busy.

That turquoise bag looks just perfect. it's MY color!

the bags and iron are very cool!!  this summer, i am going to be doing some beaded/embroidered/painted and stamped designs on cloth...all nature inspired...one per week.  i can go to any of several parks nearby, or just hang out in my back yard!  always plenty to see and do if you actually look and begin!  :)

These bags are so cute! And so is the little iron.

Thanks for this giveaway.

Happy days,

Joanie

oops forgot, I plan on doing a series of watercolors of my grandchildren this Summer.

Happy days,

Joanie

Oh, these bags are adorable. And what a bummer it would be to win the iron - so far I had an iron designed for travelling

(you could fold the handle down), but after several years of serving nicely it just quit....

I want to make a journal during our planned travel to the coast of the Bretagne and these bags could hold my journaling

materials.

u an ateending the national needle arts show in Columbus, oh this summer that should fuel my creativity.

These are so adorable! My teenage daughter and I will be having "classes" at our home for some of her friends this summer.  They always love the things I make so I thought, "why not have some summer fun and show them how to make a few things".  They are all about fashion and these bags fit the bill as well show them that being artsy/crafty can be cool!  

I'll be taking my art supplies to the NJ shore for a week -- best way to spend a rainy day!

I have some classes scheduled through my store.  One is for a printmaking technique, a needle felting class, a mini weaving and a journal making class.  It is hard to make time for art so by doing classes I make sure I get time to be creative!

This summer I am working on several projects, a doll for the Gypsy Doll challenge and some fiber work for a show we are planning  at the Brazosport Art League Gallery show in September.  And, with a new granddaughter set to arrive within the next two weeks, I know I will have to do something girley (after two sons and one grandson I will be ready for pink.)

Great bags, and love that iron! I plan on working on an art journal this summer, something I haven't done.  I also will be working on making art paper dolls which I do often.

I'm going to ArtFiberFest!  A funky, fabulous, fabric fete' put on by Teesha Moore in Portland OR later in June.  I plan on reading my ClothPaperScissors issues cover to cover, as usual and making at least one project from them.

I am planning a couple of trips around shows and there will be the moving of lots of things, especially spinning wheels and other fiber prep materials.  But more importantly is to get the outdoor studio working better...I dye yarn using a solar dyeing process and having an efficient studio space is key.  

I love bags, and these are just so Mod!!!  I love these!

My summer creative plans include attending the Long Beach Quilt Festival, and working on a large original quilt that has been causing me to zone out at work, school, and home while I endeavor to work out the details in my head and trying to sketch it out!

I'm headed to Athens, (Ohio that is)! Can't wait to tour the Dairy Barn. :-)  Love those bags!

Normajean (the one with the clean studio in CT :->)

I can only dream of the art I could create will on the go with these bags.  And I'd look so stylish at the same time!

Every weekend my husband and I go and spend the weekend at our trailer on a piece of property we own in the country.  Of course I have to think ahead of a project or projects I want to work on and pack the items I will need to complete these. Inevitable I forget something.  Each week take more and more so that I feel I won't be leaving anything behind. Each week my hubby moans and moans about all the stuff I am taking. I don't care though because it is uber-relaxing to sit outside and do ART!!!

PUFF

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I could use any of those special items! So Cute!

We are doing the "Staycation" this summer, but my supply bags and samples are already and live in my mixed media mom minivan! I am always ready to GO! I am eager to answer any call to spend the day! You never know who or what you might meet that will be an inspiration! So if you are in the Atlanta area, just send me an email and we'll do the "make and take"! I am into instant gratification!

we plan on hitting the beach several times this year... i am promising myself to take a few watercolor crayons and a journal at least!  ;)  but also travel to the wonderful countryside to see family...with the fields and trees... my hand-stitching will have to come for that one, for sure!  ;)

We're leaving in a few short days on our first trip to Maui!!  Today, my daughter and I created background pages for the scrapbook that we're hoping to create during our trip.  We're hoping to do the journaling each evening after the day's activities, and plan on using mainly found items, photos, etc.  I often have good intentions about making a scrapbook after a trip, but life always seems to get in the way and I seldom get it done.  I don't want these Hawaiian memories to escape me!

I  just took Susie Monday's workshop--Text on the Surface. This summer I will create art in my studio using techniques learned at the workshop!                Pat S.

Wow, love the bags. I plan to take a few classes this summer at our local art gallery. Took a class today in fusing glass, which was very interesting.

I recently drove from Florida to Arizona (and back) and had a box of art supplies with me in the car. Those bags look like they would keep things much better organized!

this summer i will redeem my 2008 christmas gift from my husband, an assemblage workshop with michael demeng at valley ridge art studio (wisconsin). i've been collecting bits of junk for months and can't wait to see how everything will come together.

My husband recently passed away. One of my sisters wanted a getaway. 1st annual sisiters retreat. I wasn't up for      travel, so we had our retreat here, at  my home. She brought her sewing machine, plus my oldest sister, as well as a huge assortment of fabric. I borrowed another machine. We made several quilted tote bags, all custom designed. we took pics, went out with them. We had such a great time and bond. We've agreed to have a sewing getaway for our 2nd sisters retreat. Your adorable bags would be an added bonus to our next workshop.

I'm planning to rework a mixed media piece I made last summer--I finally realize what's not working with it!  Our local museum is opening after being closed 2 years for renovations--can't wait to see it.

I probably won't be going too far this summer, but ... what a great time to stay home!  the sun is shining, the flowers are starting to bloom (here in Canada summer seems to take a bit longer to arrive!).  I am hoping to get to the mountains a few times, and I usually take my sketchbook with me, a magazine or two ... I am also planning a trip to Houston this year, which should be the highlight, as I will be meeting my quilting friends from Buenos Aires.  what a treat!

And, before I forget, those bags are gorgeous!  and the iron is red!!! so much fun. Well, I'm off in a couple of days to Victoria to teach at a Conference.  Good luck to all.

If I only had these last week. we were spending a week away and there were things I wanted to take.  Out came the plastic bags, envelopes and some put in "the" suitcase by my husband.  That was definitly a mistakes! Things were every where and still are.  I need to be organized!!!

Margaret from down under (literally)

I have organised a summer school for 12 of my arty internet pals. we are going to meet up and work and play together for 5 days in July in a wonderful location in the middle of Wiltshire. It is full board and we are going to do our own teaching/mentoring sessions as well as sharing our work.

We have been internet pals for a while and so sort of know each other.... but this is going to be really exciting......meeting face to face.......Members are coming from France, Austria, Outer Hebrides, Scotland and all parts of England. I would love to get one of these bags and see how much of our "essentials" we it would take to fill it. We are going to have lots of fun.

My art retreat is not very retreat as the kids come with me! I always take a small wash bag that has different sections with glue, scissors etc. I take some scraps of fabric and just doodle with stitch. I try to work in my sketch book and enjoy the break from the work at home.

I've been thinking about trying Mistyfuse, & that iron would be great for that! Those bags are too cool for school. Whoever wins any one of them will ROCK!

Those bags are so great!  Thanks for doing a giveaway.  That hat box gives me a good idea though.  I've seen a few of those in antique stores.  It'd be just as fun to doctor one up as to win one!  I love summer because of the longer days and all the extra energy I seem to have.  This summer I decided to take one of the many craft books I have and do a project a week.  Hopefully, I can stick to it!

I'm a quilter and this year I hope to attend Pacific International Quilt Show in Santa Clara in the fall.  I understand it is "Quilter Heaven" with all of the fantastic quilts and VENDORS!  One of these bags would help me be more organized for quilting adventures, don't you think?

Due to several income setbacks, it looks like I'll be staying close to home this summer. That won't diminish the inspiration though - with flower gardens, a multitude of birds (including wild turkeys with their poults), deer, pesky chipmunks, and a despicable groundhog right in my own backyard! All of that makes my back patio a grand summer art studio perfect for painting, collage, fabric arts or whatever direction the muse leads me. Then a few steps further away, there's the local art museum, a peaceful reservoir, and fabulous bike trail. Not too shabby for an economical venue.

I'm taking a three-day watercolour course at my local college and can't wait!

We are working on our house with a view to selling and moving so won't be going away on holiday this year, but I WILL be going to Art in Action in July (http://www.artinaction.org.uk/). This is an amazing 4-day Art/Craft event in Oxfordshire in the UK and although it's not a holiday it is a bit like going into another world. The show is held in the grounds of a huge house and each marquee is devoted to a different discipline so there is a jewellery tent, a sculpture tent, a painting tent and, most importantly for me........a textiles tent!! I've been a few times now and am always amazed at what I see there. It is incredibly inspiring and all held in lovely grounds so if the weather is good itm makes the days even better. The pancakes in the food area aren't bad either!!

I'm going to Quilt National with a good friend and fellow quilter!

I'm a real bag and box lover so convinced myself to add a comment - something I've never done before! I plan to do some mixed media projects this summer. I've just started doing some collage.

Those bags are so cool!  I plan on doing alot of dyeing and sewing this summer.  Then in the fall my best friend and I are going on a quilting retreat in Michigan.  Can't wait for that.  Been saving all year to go.

Well, I seem to be doing a lot traveling this year (in fact I am at my daughter's picking up my granddaughter for a visit currently). I hope to including her into a lot of project during her visit.

I just sign up for a on line class with Quilt University on fabric painting landscapes.

Well, I seem to be doing a lot traveling this year (in fact I am at my daughter's picking up my granddaughter for a visit currently). I hope to including her into a lot of project during her visit.

I just sign up for a on line class with Quilt University on fabric painting landscapes.

My husband and I are taking the kids for a bunch of weekend trips through Alberta this year. During this time I plan to take a lot of photos from which I can draw inspiration from through the long winter months. I hope to get a little hand work done too while on the road.

I just tried to add my comment and it is not showing up. If  this shows up twice, sorry!!!

My husband and I are taking a bunch of weekend trips around Alberta with our kids. During this time I am going to take lots of photographs for inspiration through the long winter months! Hopefully I will get a little hand work done too.

This summer I will be spending time at a lake in the Rockies-no tv, no internet, and my cell phone doesn't even get reception! I can't wait to sit out on the dock to sketch the scenery, dye my fabric and make a quilt. I think being out in so much natural grandeur will be inspiring.

I love those bags and the little iron and the mistyfuse too!

Although I live 5 minutes from the beach, I probably will be working non-stop in NYC this summer..My plan is to take some fabric and craypas to

work and do rubbings of the lampposts on my lunch hour; I work in a cool old WPA era building, and there are great art deco details that I want to turn into

textile designs and art quilts.

I'm going to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia for a 5 week trip. I'm taking a sketchbook, water color pencils, and a small point and shoot camera. I have visions of art quilts with images of tropical foliage, temples, statues, etc. I've been collecting green fabrics lately in preparation for the quilts to come.

One of my girlfriends has a beautiful, spacious, almost spa-like home situated on a small, secluded, deep body of

water.   Once a month a few of us gather there for Art Day on the Pond.  We take our paint sticks, fabric,  and paints

and turn ourselves loose.  Of course we have a lovely lunch (wine included) and spend the rest of the day creating

and experimenting.  Last Saturday, I showed the ladies how to bottle-wrap shibori.  The results were stunning.  It

sure would be nice to transport my "stuff" in one of those charming bags!

I'll be teaching a mixed media journaling class locally. This is a first-time teaching experience for me so really looking forward to a day of sharing lots of techniques with my students. And oh yes I would love to win one of those GORGEOUS bags - the petite multi-colored one is my fave :>

At the end of July I will be heading back to La Veta, Colorado to attend a quilting retreat with Ricky Tims. I just picked up "Studios" this afternoon and saw the bags. I had already checked out the Joanns website and found the one I really liked, the cute green one, was not available through them. Undaunted, I skipped on over to the Target website and found it there. Now maybe I will get lucky and win one. : )

Love the bag--perfect for a weekly "bee"--or just to take to another room for a few minutes of "creativity in a case"

This summer I am taking a Monoprinting class from Melanie Testa in San Diego.  I'm also trying to conjure up another trip to take a intensive Mixed Media class from my new BFF Jane LaFazio.   I've recently been diagnosed with ACOCD - Arts & Crafts Obsessive Compulsive Doitall.  

Those are very cute bags! Making Art Portable is such a fun idea.

These are gorgeous and everyone needs something like this to have a mini studio wherever you go!

Aw, these bags are so adorable and they would make organization not only easy but fun!  Thanks for the chance to win something so awesome!

I plan on making a flower inspired quilt this summer!

Great bags - how about a small backpack version next for those of us who like to have our hands free for photography or sketching.

This summer I'm doing a big stretch.  I'm going to attend a couple of workshops on using acrylics.  No, it's not fiber related but, yes, it is art related.  My decision to do this was to get away from just fibers and investigate art through using acrylics.  So this summer I'm going to play Monet but use modern day acrylics instead of traditional oil paints.  I'm getting very excited.  I'm wondering just what kind of an artist I'll be and just what kind of art I can produce.  I can hardly wait to get going.

Great give-away prizes!  I am going to Sunset Beach, NC, for a week, and plan on making a few more sunset art quilts.  Also, I am planning a charity quilt sew-in with my bee in July.

Love the compactness of the bag and all the supplies it can hold.   Great for taking to my quilting circle - I know all the girls will love it too!  The iron is also compact and simply attractive.  Perfect for keeping near the sewing table or for use on project on-the-go!  Just starting to appreciate the quality of Misty Fuse!

I am in the process of moving to a new house which has a large room that my hubby and I will use as a joint art studio - and another large room which will be a classroom. Can't wait. I'm hoping for some good ideas from the Studios magazine.

I am planning to continue my ART Journaling project throughout the summer and fall and dedicated to drawing every day until it becomes a Good habit.. Those super colorful  totes make me think of summer and citrus and cool breezes and traveling and Summer Fun!!

Yummy, delightful and would be very helpful for toting around pencils, markers and  journals. Happy Creating Everyone

I plan on teaching myself how to crochet while camping this year!  I'm mostly a sewer, but my family and I camp nearly every weekend so I need something I can do that's easy to take along.  I can't wait to learn a new hobby!

I've been lucky enough to receive a scholarship to QSDS and am headed to study with Noriko Endo next week!  The next weekend I'll be at the NQA show.

This summer I am going to finish the scrapbook from last summer's vacation and also get 2 baby quilts finished.  I wish that I had more time and money for art, but when I do create things it is so fulfilling!  I know one of those gifts would inspire me to do more!

I'll be taking classes at QSDS this June in Columbus, OH.  This is my big treat to myself every year.

The bags are awesome.     To have a Art Travel getaway would also be great.    and the bags would help ensure it would be artful.

I LOVE the bag...reminds me of a hatbox from a vintage luggage set.  What a delightful idea.  AND the little iron is pure genius.  I'm teaching a class tomorrow with misty fuse and fabrics, and I'm dragging along my BIG iron.  Would be great to have the mini.

Love those bags!

I'm treating myself to an on-line class in creating (and using!) studio journals.  I'm very excited to develop new tools, new skills.

I am going to Germany to visit my in-laws. My goal this time is to find different beads and fabric! (the shoes will have to wait this time) Then I'd like to create a quilt with my findings! Too bad I couldn't take one of your cool bags along!!

Neat giveaway, thanks. I plan to attend some plein-aire painting workshops by the canal/river in my area.

They are sooo cute and in my favorite colors!  I love tote bags.

Hi Cate!

I am going to a 4 day workshop with DJ Pettitt next week! So excited about that! I'm starting to collect my supplies this weekend.

I also have an entry on my blog that talks about my traveling art project bin. My husband umpires college baseball and I travel with him. I can be ready to go in minutes because I keep my art bin full of my favorite supplies! No looking around for this or that. The draw back is that it's a plain ole see thru art bin container...The blue bag above looks like it would work great as a travel art bag...(hint, hint).

I love the magazines! You're doing a great job. Have a safe and fun filled summer!

These are perfect for 'quilting camp'.

These bags are a great idea - it may be time for me to stop using baskets to carry stuff to retreats/classes.

We do a lot of horse camping and since I don't ride I bring projects to stay busy. I quilt and stamp and enjoy the outdoors.  Any of these wonderful items would be a great benefit for crafting items. There is not alot of extra space in the horse trailer and being able to have everything in one place as well as portable is just too cool!

Hi

This summer I hope to catch up with my painting of paper and fabric with loads of different paints and markers and creating many different projects to share with my group next year.  I love making little books with fancy covers and painted pages and also journals for noting ideas and inspiration.

Jan

helle from france!!! wow!! love those beautiful things!! i would be so happy to do a workshop with all people i see the art!!! but so far!! so this summer i will go to the country to see my mother and i will take all my material to paint, sew, ans so on!! i will let me inspire by the country and the sin of birds! have a nice day

I'm planning on taking my quilting with me wherever I go this summer...just trying to get everything done....those accessories would be most helpful!

I am focusing on having more I can take with me, small journals, pencils, pens.  Trying to log that creativity.  The packs are awesome.  Thanks for a great site  with lots of information.  Candyce

Thanks for the opportunity to share... first of all, I enjoy all of the mailings I received from Quilting Arts.  Since I have retired, I have been able to "smell the roses" and enjoy the art all around me.  One of the things I would love to do is to create a picture with fabric (landscape quilt or other).  Reading this website is helping me to create those ideas/methods/media.  I leave the site with a good feeling, a stress-free feeling.  

I LOVE those bags and that iron would come in handy!  I am actually going to be teaching a fabric dyeing work shop in just a few weeks!  I teach the basics and then I go a little farther and teach different tieing techniques and how to discharge fabric.  My MIL gave me some fabric paints that reacte to the sun for Christmas and with the weather warming up I should be able to do some experimenting soon.

In a couple of weeks I'll be going to the Vermont Quilt Festival & taking classes.  I love art quilts and have a deep respect for those who do traditional quilting.

Bette

I'm a development aid worker and in July I plan to go to Ghana to work for almost a month.  I can't pack much (one bag) but I like to bring a craft, which I always carry on so there is no chance to lose it.  One of these bags would be GREAT to bring (and the bright colors match African style)!  This time I want to pack small hand projects like applique quilt blocks and supplies for beading.  I buy strands of handmade (usually recycled glass, clay or brass) beads in Africa but I would have to bring from the States the correct materials to string the beads and findings.  I always pick up fabric in Africa  & one of these bags could hold my pins, needles, threads and templates -- and an easy project -- for the way over.  I would stuff the bag full with beads & fabric on my way back!

I want to try making batik fabric with gel glue that was in Art Quilts earlier this year.

My fiber artists group is having a show at the end of July, beginning of August. I have much to do in preparation for that especially since my quilt guild just had their bi-annual show. Deadlines are a frenzy but they are good for prodding us into action.

Those bags are too cool - would be so wonderful to take my sewing stuff back and forth between Michigan and Washington DC.

I would love those accessories for my quilting this summer!

Cate:  I'm going to take some art on the road with me when we drive from Maine to Florida for a family reunion.  These bags are way nicer than what I'll be using, but at least I'll have my art journal/sketchbook, pencil case with drawing supplies, and another case with watercolor stuff.....and of course I'll take my camera (for "reference" photos for future work).  In the meantime, I'm working on a commission quilt...Who Inspires You?  for the local middle school!

Cheers, Sarah

sarah@sarahannsmith.com

Love the colors of these bags!  I am working my way thru the local quilt shows enjoying not only the art quilts but the traditional style quilts too.

Just had two art quilts accepted at the Botanica Quilt Show. Thanks for your inspiration and for encouragement.

I love these too cute bags-thanks for sharing.

I will be playing with natural dyes this summer on wool and cotton-and then turn them into quilted fabric postcards or quilts and such Kathyinozarks

What a nice way to always have supplies with you. I am going to head for New England late summer and would love to have a basic kit with me. So wish all these items had been available years ago when we camped.

I will be visiting the studio of Gwen Hatchette, featured in your summer issue, when our Fort Collins guild holds a studio tour.  Gwen is a lovely lady and a very talented artist, and her studio is truly a delightful place.

The bags are fantastic looking. I have never used Mistyfuse but want to try this summer.   I just got my first issue of Studios and have plans for improvement on my studio!  

We will be leaving the end of June.  Destination Branson, Missouri with several stops on the way.  Hubby always knows that our van stops at quilt shops along the way and is a really good sport about it even to the extent of giving an opinion now and then.  He has already reminded me that last time we did this trip (every other year we meet my siblings there) we found a couple of "Grand Openings" quite accidentally so we should be on the look out for more of those.  I think your giveaway is just wonderful by the way.  Thank you for the opportunity to enter.  I'm planning to take along a few crazy quilt blocks that are pieced and will work on the embellishments during the drive and at night in the hotel room.

Winning one of these great prizes should inspire more creative pursuits, especially if it is easier to can take projects along when you travel.

I would love to go somewhere and take a workshop, but I am going to do several "staycations" this year and work on projects at home and enjoy being a tourist at home.

Since I'm just back from Quilt National & SAQA Conference, I'm planning a trip to my studio this summer to do some deconstructed screenprinting with dyes a la Kerr Grabowski, some LWI, deconstructed rubbings & engravings to delve further into that and whatever else I am led to by my brain, curiosity, paints and dyes.  And if a couple "maybe" trips to London and Sarajevo come about, I'll be taking inspiration & photos for my art quilts.  As to packing my bag: camera (w charger & adapter plugs!), some pens & sketchbook and wide open mind.

I plan on entering a wall hanging I made (Tree of Life ) in the county fair in July. I am alawys working on something and just made myself my own sewing room  - My daughter has finished collage and has just moved out , and luckily her old room was just the right size for a cool new sewing room!! Last year I had a wall hanging in an art show but not going to this year because we a couple weddings in the family , and I seemed to just run out of time. My goal is to be good enough to sew a more "Artsy" wall hanging - I've been quilting for 3 years but sewing since high school. I just love some of the wall hangings and quilts in your magazine!! The bags look increadable and so convienent - the iron too. I really like doing applicaybut i'm fairly new to it.  And also my birthday just happens to be June 8. Elaine

I might have to plan a trip just to use those cute bags.

I just signed up for a silk scarf dyeing class. The samples were so beautiful.

It will be hard to choose colors. I may have to make more than one.

Whenever I travel I bring along fabric paints and a piece of hand-dyed fabric to do nature printing.  I look for leaves or other natural objects specific to the area that I'm visiting and are different from what I can find at home (Minnesota).  I use the fabric piece for a book or journal cover, as a page in a journal, in an art quilt, or in a tote bag or a garment.  Since I don't know what I will find, I work with the serendipity of the piece to drive the design of what I make when I get home.

What absolutely cute items. The iron and the bag look great for traveling, retreats and workshops.

Alma

My goal this summer is to create my workshop.  I have an office that everyone uses to dump unwanted items - I am reclaiming it as my studio!  I want to be able to go in and create even for just a few minutes a day.  I always take in a few art shows during the summer - a great way to get inspired!  Creating a art travel bag is a great idea for the summer!  Always being on the go and being able to grab a bag to bring with?!? Great idea!

What absolutely fabulous bags!  I'm attending the 4 day Festival of Quilts in Birmingham UK in August this year and have signed up for 4 workshops.  One of these bags would come in really useful - I use Misty Fuse too - this is a great give-away...thank you :o)

Angela

I just found this blog and am anxious to go through all the entries. Would love to win one of those adorable bags or travel iron to take with me to the quilt guild workshops. Thanks for your hard work in the blog. Deila

This summer I will be taking my art on the road with me lakeside bringing along extra small kits to

encourage anyone in that environment to get creative...especially younger generation. I will also be working with kids and teens in workshops, bringing kits to work side by side with them creating fiber art with mixed media using recycled materials, the possibilities are endless. We will be hand sewing found objects onto all types of fabric surfaces to create a new art object. I will be the supply carrier with fusing tools and fusible fabrics. My goal with these on the road projects is to influence many from the totally tech world of texting...into the world of creating...once they do a project, they will be hooked.

A girl can never have too many bags - better than Prada!

I'm going to create my new studio (well, ex-son's bedroom) (or do I mean son's ex-bedroom?!), sort out all my stash (again)

and hopefully finish off the ever growing box of UFOs (at last). Just finished City & Guilds so taking a break from class work

over the summer, so I'm refreshed and ready to start again in the autumn.

Love the articles.  I am busy making cross-over bags right now for a craft show in August.  Hand-dyed fabrics, painting and quiliting.  Very busy days.  

Keep all of the great stuff coming and I love your bags also, and would be very honored to win one!

Judy Burt, JLB Sewing, Orlando FL

Love the articles.  I am busy making cross-over bags right now for a craft show in August.  Hand-dyed fabrics, painting and quiliting.  Very busy days.  

Keep all of the great stuff coming and I love your bags also, and would be very honored to win one!

Judy Burt, JLB Sewing, Orlando FL

Lovely bags and a nice giveaway! This summer I'm having my quilts on show here in northern Sweden. It'a ao exciting! Hope everything goes well

Lotta in Sweden

Beautiful bags/containers. Just right for my quilting accessories.  I have already attended a Quilt Show in May and it has made me  determined to master machine quilting and stippling using up my stash of Rowan/Westminster fabrics and recycling old shirts. I do find handquilting quite therapeutic too. Thanks for reading my comments.

I'm hoping to do special quilts for my 2 preschool granddaughters this summer...but how to manage to do special jobs on both...and find time to properly plan out the projects before just jumping in to do them??  Hope to get "organied" soo!

My 4-1/2 year grandson will be coming to visit this Summer. I plan several gardening themed crafts to do with both him and my 10 year-old grandson, who lives close by.  Among other things, we will be doing some painting on fabric, including painting over leaves, stamping, collage, and painting grilling aprons. This will be his first visit without his parents - and I am excited!

I LOVE these bags!  I carry a project with me wherever I go, especially in the summer when I am not teaching!  This summer, I am finishing up two rather complex quilts that I began two years ago.  So far, I am making great progress and have not had to remove too many stitches!  

Love the travel iron. Looks easier to use than the one I have. I'll also be going to QBL ( for the 17th year) and taking a class with Jane Dunnewold. Looking forward to painting, stamping and just having fun.

This giveaway is so great! I have been thinking of putting together a travel bag so I can get in as much "creating" on the go as possible.

I have been wishing that I had a good travel kit to carry with me so I can have supplies to work with at lunch time and on my work breaks to develop my pen and ink sketches and add color and stampings and inks etc., until I can one day leave the 9-5 behind and concentrate solely on my creative pursuits...one day soon I hope.

This summer I am working on an inspirational series of art that incorporates art quilting techniques and I hope to share these works with others and create art prints in vivid colors!

Thanks Quilting Arts Magazine and to your show on PBS for inspiring me again and again!

These are absolutely precious!  I plan to return to my quilt this year and actually FINISH it!  :)

Very nicely done.   I have a rustic cabin that I visit on the weekends through the spring, summer and fall months, I'm always struggling with how to bring things to work on without taking up so much room...(HENCE, I"m a pack rat and never know if I will use all my supplies, but I want to bring them all)   Something so compact will force me to chose what to bring... could be a new enlightening moment with all the inspiration I have in the wilderness.  

Von

I hope to sew more items, teach my daughter how to use her new sewing machine, continue knitting, shop for fabrics in NYC.  The bags are so cute!

Love, love, love all these products!  One of my "arty" activities this summer is my fiber art group's gallery show!  The name of our group is FAB, and we just hung our very first show on Wednesday at the Lincoln Cultural Center in Lincolnton, NC.  It will be on display from June 4 - July 3.  The gallery is open Tuesday - Friday from 10 - 5, and our opening reception is Friday June 12 at 6:30.  We would love for you to come by if you are in the area!

Wow what super bags...no matter what project I'm in the middle of creating when we go on holiday I make room to take some part and as we have a camper van packing small is a must but at least I get to do my crafts whilst holidaying...with such pretty holders I could get away with taking more as I could "white lie" to the hubby and say it is my handbag!!!!

My business goes fairly dormant in the summer so I can pull out the lutradur, Tranfer Artist Paper, gelatin fixin's and try some new things.   And I can finally get back to dyeing!  In fact, I think I'll get started today.

I love the bags.  My plans for creativity this summer are 1:  clean up and organize my supply/stash room  and 2: Focus for a few weeks at a time on ONE medium or project!  1st, after making the baby sling for my son and his wife, is to do another quilted portrait.

Such CUTE bags! One of those would look much more stylish than the plastic shoe box I currently use when I take art supplies with me when we go camping in our pop-up camper! Nice give-away!

I wish I had art travel plans for the summer, sniff, sniff.  However, I am planning lots of "Art in Park" days with my children.  We'll pack up some paint, paper, glue and treasures, we'll head to the playground with a lunch and spend the day playing and creating; I think they will truly enjoy our summer of "Art in the Park".

Michelle

I love all of the items in this give-away.  I am a part of 2 small groups from my quilting guild and carry items to them every month using at least 2 totes.  I am currently working on completing a quilt made from blocks done at one of these groups and a fractured border, it is still a work in progress, but it coming along well!

Fun giveaways!  Thanks!

I NEED to be as organized as your suggestions show. I've just rented a new studio space, and I will spend at least part of the summer trying to figure out the most efficient (for me) way to organize sewing, dyeing, painting, embellishing areas in the studio, so things don't pile up and get lost.

In only a few more days we are going to Columbus Ohio and will see Quilt National in Athens and Sacred Threads and the NQA quilt show all in three fun packed days. Oh, and a side trip to Golf Works for the worlds best husband. What a guy to spend his vacation seeing shows with me and taking pictures where allowed. Traveling with a new art tote would really be great for our next trip.   Connie Pietrala   Richcon@charter.net

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This summer I will experiment with Paint sticks and free motion quilting. On my long vacation I will take pictures for inspriration.

I was just reading about the bags in the latest copy of the Studios.  I was just thinking one of these would be perfect for my next holiday. Hubby has booked a two holiday to the states for my 40th birthday... One of these would be great way to capture the adventure as we travel round.

Hoping to get to Cleveland to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after Pokey's visit last year !

Luv the bags. So cute. Summer plans include a dying and rusting workshop w/ my 4-H kids.Along w/ an upcycle workshop. Brainstorming for my next wearable arts challenge. Visiting NY for some new inspiration I cant get down here in TX. At least its summer.

Yippee.... new "art" bags, yep I can always use another great bag for special projects. I'm attending a great retreat in September, Quilt Arkansas 2009, with classes and some great party challenges. Also twice a year I attend a retreat by our local guild, at least 20 women with their machines for 3 days, what more could you want!

Love the bags- Going to a week long workshop in October at Hudson River Valley Art Quilting with Carol Taylor and they would be perfect! Especially the large one...

Thanks for the chance to win.

I just received my Quilting Arts Magazine and its pouring of rain, so I am going to spend the day browsing.

Next month I am going to Missoula, Montana to decorate my new grandchild's room, bumpers, quilt, wall hanging and the bag would be just what I need.

What pretty travel bags and so functional!

LOVE the bags - I have a real thing for bags as my close will attest!  They could even pass for a purse for the eagle eyes of the carry-on police!

My daughter has planned a wonderful treat for me and my best friend, she has rented a house on the beach in Gulf Shores and invited us to come and stay a week with her.   We are going to listen to the ocean, lay in the sun  and quilt our hearts out!  

Mary

My summer's plans are every artist dream.  I will have the opportunity to go to St. Petersburg, RUSSIA and will visit The HERMITAGE Museum.  I hope this wonderful chance to see GREAT ART will push my creative endevours into it's next phase.  While traveling, it would be nice to have any of these wonderful prices, especially the tote.

My sister and I plan an art retreat every year.  This summer we are returning to a lakeside cottage that we just love!  We both take our sewing machine and our painting supplies!  I will be so nice to relax and paint and work on our mixed media projects!!  I think part of the fun of going on our retreat is gathering our supplies and projects for the trip.  I always start packing my projects well in advance.  It gives me something to plan and look forward to!  And yes, part of the fun is finding (or making) the perfect bag to for the trip!!!

I wish I could tell you I was headed to Hawaii or Italy for a fantastic art retreat or vacation, but I'm not.  My studio was my breakfast area.  It is a small but cozy space.  Because my space is small, I store my supplies in a variety of baskets and containers that remind me of traveling, such as a treasure chest, purses, and small luggage, which are scattered on the tops of plastic bins and tv table stands.  They make my space feel like I'm traveling.  When I enter my studio each morning, I imagine where I'll be creating that day.  I put on music to fit the mood and creativity takes over.  Aloha and Ciao!

Those bags are too cute!!!  I take my quilting or knitting where ever I go.

I just love every one of those bags - and the iron - adorable! (can an iron be adorable? - yes!)

My family, including grandkids, are coming to visit me in Mexico this summer. I have actually thought out ahead of time (how often does that happen?) that I'm going to make a journal of their visit: photos, memorabilia, entrance tickets, etc. It will be a whole summer of pleasures: anticipating the visit, experiencing it, and reliving it creatively. This should be one of the best summers ever!

These are SEW darling!  I could use some style on the go!

These are great bags - what a good idea!

I teach so summer is the time when I can get caught up on all those projects I've only dreamed about during the school year. I plan to finish some of my art quilts (and start some new ones). Because of the economy right now a retreat is out of the question, so I'll satisfy my urge to learn by going to local classes and workshops. My teenage daughter and I have talked about setting up a painting "studio" on the back deck just to start dabbling with different media.

I have so many projects lined up in the queue that I'll probably be working on them this time next year... learning Gaelic, drawing and charting celtic art, drawing and painting "Fae", a couple of sweater designs...!  We have a local rose garden that is awesome for hanging out and sketching, knitting, photography.  And in July, I usually venture to the Lake of the Ozarks for some aquatic and woodsy ambience.  Of course, there is my own backyard for inspiration as I am also a gardener.  Money is very tight for me this year so expanding on supplies I already have and "stopping to smell the roses", literally, is the plan for this year.  One of those bags would be awesome at the Ozarks on one of those "tree froggy" evenings!

I love inspiration! Cloth Paper Scissors has everything I've been needing! Thanks!

I am busy preparing for a week of "Lace Camp" on Manitoulin Island in Ontario Can.  Every year (this is our 16th) about 40 women from Canada, the US and Great Britain spend a week making bobbin lace.  There are many types of lace made as so many campers are of different ethnic backgrounds.  I like to make lace to encorporate into my fibre art pieces and to embellish smocked dresses that I make for my young daughter.  I will set off on a 9 hour journey with a car packed with lace pillows and books.  

I am planning on attending a few quilt shows and catching up on some unfinished projects. I also have a stack of new techniques I can't wait to try, so hopefully, I will get to them.

Karen

The bags are beautiful and would prove to be very handy when I do a workshop with Maggie Grey but then the iron would be great as well.

Doreen G in Australia.

Since being out of work for almost a year, I have taken to learning any new craft I possibly can. It also helps to bring in a few extra dollars to help me out!! Any type of crafting is an "art", so I can definitely use any of these totes to cerry my "art" when I go to a friend's house to visit and get inspiration and support.

I'll be attending a nine day art camp in June and a three day encaustic workshop in August -both are out of town.

I could really use those traveling bags!

It promises to be a creative summer

Ah-the creative summer of Deborah! (1) I will be painting some old chairs picked up at a yard sale and intend to be using several mediums- Paint-cloth and maybe a few strategically placed rhinestones (2) My new in-house studio consists of a former dressing room which I am turning into a third studio work area-  I shall be tearing it apart and re-organnizing to my hearts delight! Can't wait until my organizational juices kick in for that! (3) I was lucky to obtain a huge fabric selection (not that I needed more!) from a friends sister- I will be incorporating that into my existing fabric studio room- I have lot's of ideas and intend to work in my studio starting October 1 5 days a week- creating-creating-creating-For next summer I intend to take a couple of art project classes at the Art School in Chester Vermont-I have run out of time this year!

what a generous giveaway.  This summer I'm taking my first quilting class!  I've been quilting for over 5 years but I've never taken a real class.  I'm super excited.

Sooo great!! I hope this give away works internationally!!! I'm doing my first step on sewn and  I'd like to pack my supplies in some suitcase like those!! Ohh charming! ;)

Great looking bags.   Any of them would love to come and stay at my home.

This summer, my DH and I are spending a week in a cabin on a small lake.  While he fishes I am going to experiment with adding fabric paint to a small wallhanging that is needing some extra punch.  

I also will take a small sewing machine and work on the quilt blocks I have started sewing together for a quilt for our DSIL.

Please enter me into the giveaway contest.  I would love to be a winner.  

Barbara Gesell

Quilt8@aol.com

Those bags are terrific and I especially love the travel iron.  I am traveling to the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach, and always need cool things to pack up my supplies in for demos.  Our family vacation is on the calendar, and am planning what I can take that is small to put on the airplane - because I can't go anywhere without doing some kind of art.

Beautiful cases! I'm new to quilting arts and LOVE your magazine! Thank you!

We bought a used two seater kayak so my granddaughter can ride with me. Weather permitting, we're going to float around with sketchbooks and digital cameras while grampa fishes and then go back to my house and work them into quilt blocks until we have enough to put them together into a wall quilt. Then I'm going to sit her on my lap and teach her how to quilt it.

I love the  travel iron. Not only could it be used on the road but it would be great to keep by the sewing machine when doing mini quilts in my studio . Lately I've been doing some needle felting by machine but the bags would be great to carry hand needle felting supplies with you as you travel in the summer.

re:  Art Travel Giveaway

I love these bags!  I am planning on travelling to the Creativ Festival this Fall In Toronto, CA and these would be perfect!  I wanted to go this Spring, but we just bought an 1800 Cape Cod home in the most beautiful village in Maine.  There are festivals in my new area all the time.  These bags would come in handy there as well, as I am hoping to set up a table at one of them.  I like making quilted bags and I do decorative painting on barrel staves.  

These are so great!  And I love the little iron too!  How exciting to see it in red and not, oh.. say.. pink... bleh!  This is a great give away and I'd be thrilled to win!

Angie

I'll be attending a nine day art camp in June and a three day encaustic workshop in August -both out of town.

I could really use those traveling bags!

It promises to be a creative summer!

I love the bags! I'm moving from Maine to Virginia the end of the month and I am trying to figure out what to put my art things in so I can have some of my crafts with me. The blue bag would be perfect for me to carry some of my items. I know that I will need breaks to do something other than unpacking and doing a craft project is always fun and takes my stress away. Knowing where some of my craft things are makes it easier for me to do this. This summer will be a craft summer since I will be looking for work at my new home and will have some extra free time on my hands. I will have all my Christmas gifts made by fall this year.  

I'm taking a drawing class this summer...something I haven't done since college 20+ years ago! This should stretch me and energize me for fall and beyond!

OK  I travel and teach and I am 75 years old.  Don't you think I deserve an easy way to pack??????

What great bags!  I'm a storage freak--i seem to buy more storage rather than get rid of anything!  So bring it on...  One of those bags is just the thing for a car trip to a week by a lake this summer.

Amy Selmanoff

OK,  I'm inspired again.  Keep on arting!  Love the bags.  

I was shopping for additional art supplies last night -- a stamp and stamping ink, a few artist pens, etc.  I have my art supplies stored in a basket right now.  Although I'm not "going" on a retreat this year, I do plan to work on some art projects one day a week.  I hope by the end of the summer to have completed several projects.

Hi,

I am planning to make a short-sleeve lightweight jacket with crochet for myself, a couple of hats, prayer cloths  for cancer victims, and stuffed toys for a new great-nephew.   As of right now I don't plan to go anywhere for crafts but if there is something closeby (Seguin, Texas) I would consider going.  I love the travel bags  and iron.  My sister is an avid scrapbooker and would love one of those bags, I know.  Hope I win one for her.

Gloria

Well, no house rented on the beach nor a magnificent trip in a wonderfull place... for these days I will stay simply at home drawing and painting in our garden pavilion, smelling the flowers and contemplating the sky in its so many faces....just a simple , home-enjoying- filled with love summer holiday. And dreaming ...what's a soul without love and dream ?

OOPS!  I left a comment and forgot to add the required info you asked for.. what I'd do with this for the summer!  Please delete the other comment by me!

I have just started teaching art classes and these would be great to carry some of my supplies.  Some of my classes require an iron on the supply list so this one would be perfect to take for students to have access to or for me to use to demo!

Angie

Using an "Altoid" can, I will fit 6 water bottle plastic caps inside with various paint colors.  Add a waterbrush.  So tucked inside this adorable little bag, I will have everything for an artist's retreat...at the beach, or the mountains.  Can hardly wait to begin!

Love the bags and the iron.  Have recently moved back to my home state and am looking forward to attending a great summer art fair - Art Fair on the Square - in Madison, WI.  The fair is located on the square surrounding the state capitol building and there are always amazing artists there.  We are also moving from the house we are renting to a house we are buying and I will be working on setting up my studio so that I can once again have my own space for art!

The bags look very nice. I am going to make a mosaic out of recycled glass on the end of my studio on the outside of the building. It will probably be more than I really want to tackle, but it sure be nice when I'm finished !!!

I haven't seen this magazine before. Looks interesting, I'll try to find it at my local bookstore or JoAnn's.

i just got the new studio zine home....as i was looking through it, i got the coolest idea. we have a covered breezeway between the house and garage embellished with lots of vintage tin signs, antiques and other cool stuff. there is also a very nice sized table and chairs out there, we spend a lot of time out there in spring, summer and fall...hmmmm i'm thinking to my self....outside, breezy and sunny....voila my new out door studio....already made and ready to use,  all i have to do is take my next project to the breezeway...which is a art challange from a blog that needs to be completed by sunday evening. i'm so excited all i have to do is gather materials up and walk outside to my newly found and ready to go out door studio. thanks for the special studio addition, now i have an indoor and out door studio!

Hi Cate,

Looking forward to reading the new issue of CPS Studios.  I am in the middle of renovating my own studio space and I love reading up on ways to store, organize and display work in the studio.  For the summer I will be teaching a wonderful art camp in Kitchener, ON and when I'm not teaching I will spend the days at the local "beaches" with my daughters, taking pictures and bringing home items to print.  Thanks for asking!

I like traveling with my work. Always great to get ideas on how to take things with you because you never know when you may have time to create or an idea that can't wait. I really enjoy the studio issues. I  like seeing  other peoples ideas for their workspace is to help them create.  Thanks

Great bags and iron.  I plan to organize my crafting area more and finish some of my many UFO art projects.

Wow, what beautiful bags and the iron is soooo cute.  My vacation this year is 9 days of quilting with my 73 year old mother and my 14 year old granddaughter.  What fun!

Shelia

Wow! What fantastic gifts.  I subscribe to Quilting Arts but was unaware until today of the blog.  Glad to have found you.

Love these products and love that I can take my art on the road. What a great idea! Thanks for the giveaway!

Cool totes!!!   Makes me want to organise my craft supplies and get them ready to take somewhere anywhere hmmm.    Maybe a camping trip with some crafting on the beach.  Seashells make for  great crafting on the beach.

Love the bags!  I am doing a sashiko quilt and a wool applique quilt and the pieces and supplies would fit nicely in these bags for when we go on vacation and when I take my first daughter to college later this summer.

I live in the beautiful county of Sonoma California which sponsors an Art Walk/Trail in the summer and in the fall.  These events open the artists studio to let you see the places they work and let them explain their creative process.  I love to go to artists studios even if they are working in a medium I do not do myself, it starts my creative juices flowing.  The artists are very eager to share their love of what they do. Many times I will buy a small piece of something they do and let it inspire me to create my own art quilt, glass or ceramic piece.  Of course being in a beautiful geographic area surrounded by nature helps too. I encourage you all to get out there and be inspired!

I am only weekends at my home.  During the week I am working in another city.  On weekends I prepare and pack all my stuff to take with me to keep me busy in the evenings.  Melanie Testa inspired me to make stamps.  During the next couple of months I will stamp and paint my own fabrics to use in quilts during the long cold North Alberta winters.  I am taking as many photos as possible to use in my quilts.

These are a few of my favorite things...Misty Fuse, Bohn, and Quilting Arts...it doesn't get much better than that!!  I keep a small accessory bag packed with general sewing supplies, embellishment threads, ruler, scissors...you get the idea.  By having the bag prepacked and only having to worry about class specifics, I am always sure to have what I need and not having to run around at the last minutes asking myself, "Did I pack a ...?"  This summer I will be teaching a few classes and my class bag is packed!!  Yep, the Misty Fuse is already there...now if I could have a new travel bag, I would gladly repack!!

I love the travel bags.  I always take knitting or crochet on the road with me - even around town.  Hopefully this fall we'll get away for a mountain retreat and I can knit and read in the cool mountain air.  Thanks for the give-away opportunity!

What Fabulous Bags!!!

I never leave home without my journal, mechanical pencil and Caran d'Ache crayons! You never know when the next great idea or perfect image is going to pop up and need to be recorded for a future creative endeavor!

The kids are home for the summervacation: so not much chance to be "artsy".

We are producing dozens of cool ties for the soldiers though.

I'm going to the beach... we vacation with my extended family on an island of the N.C. coast that is accessible only by ferry. So I can't take all my heavy, cumbersome stuff with me. I take this opportunity to do handwork: hand quilting, embroidery, and needleturn applique. I also take a lot of photos and sketch, using the time to recharge and be inspired by the things around me.

I just got back from a 2 week visit at my daughter's house...my GD had *lots* of projects for me while I was there....but....they were low on supplies.  I sure could use those bags to take supplies with me when I go back in August.  I'm really trying to teach/keep my GD interested in crafting/sewing/quilting/cardmaking, etc., etc., since her Mom works it's up to Meema to pass these things on to her generation.

Summer, art and travel...those three words make me giddy! I usually go to the beach for inspiration and handfuls of shells and magic sea glass, but this year I'll be going to the mountains to gather stones smoothed by the river and twisted twigs and such to create a three dimensional piece of wall art. Also a special art friend is coming to visit me and we are going to spend our time playing with art techniques that we've been dying to find the time to try.

We are traveling in our motorhome this year from So. Cal. to Mt.Rushmore and any sites between... Any suggestions on some Artsy places to stop would be great... Also need some additional ideas of some crafts we can do while on the road... I will be doing some applique projects and some crocheting while moving.. when parked perhaps some beading and sewing... Ideas welcome.. We will also be introducing people to good health and spreading the word about Monavie... email me getmonav@yahoo.com

My huge arty event this summer is to travel from Minnesota to Sisters, Oregon for the outdoor Quilt Show in July. Two or three of my sisters are joining me in this "Sisters to Sisters" adventure. We'll be traveling by plane to Spokane, then taking 3-4 days to drive to Sisters - looking for adventure, quilt shops, inspiration from nature, along the way. This will be my first time traveling that far west - I'm excited to see new vistas, spend quality fun time with my sisters, and expand my crafting horizons!

Dot Kirchmann

Harris, MN

Those are really too cute!  I'm sure I could find sooooo many uses for them and think they would make others oh and ah and want one too!

I never go anywhere without at least a sketchbook. Those bags would be a stylish way to carry many creative supplies. My friends and I go on retreat to a log cabin in Wisconsin every year. It is a very pleasant way to bond with friends and get lots of creating done as well.

What wonderful bags - the colors are fabulous! This summer I'm hoping to take another on-line class on stenciling (took the first part this spring but was too busy at work to do much with it), and possibly a day-long "retreat" with my friend when she comes into town (that translates into a day spent shopping, roaming the city, and playing with artsy stuff!)

This summer, I will continue to improve my thread painting skills as well as my silk painting skills.  I have recently ordered the Pebeo Setasilk and love it.  I would also like to try creating fabric from paper as described by Jill Eckland in the latest issue of Quilting Arts.  I have

The bags are awesome.  And the iron looks perfect for travel as well.  I just finished moving my laundry room into my garage so I could use the indoor space for my paint and paper crafting.  The quilt room is in the sun room.  My birthday is June 9th.  What timing if I win something.  And if not, I win by waking up to another day.

What a treat it would be to get one of these goodies!!!  Whenever and wherever I go for a vacation (and I have a couple coming up this summer)  I always take some "stuff" with me.  After a day of having 'fun' I like to relax in the evening  by doing some hand quilting//scrapping//knitting, etc.  I look and see what is easy for me to pack up as crafting is a 'necessary' daily therapy.

Hello.

I'm planning a short trip to the Amana colonies in Iowa--the midwest mecca for traditional quilting.  Even though I've been making art quilts lately (and am always inspired by QA and Studios mags), it's always good to get back to the roots once in a while...

These bags would be great for hauling fabrics back home!  

I'm going to take some great photos, convert to black and white, then selective color them with oils.

IT LOOKS SO NICE , i WOULD LOVE TO GET IT ALL.Send it all to Denmark PLEASE :-))

Hola, soy chilena, al sur del mundo.  Me han encantado sus bags,realmente solucionan un problema a la hora de viajar.  Habitualmente, en mis vacaciones, a parte de la ropa, llevo papeles, croqueras, pinceles y acuarelas, para bocetear el paisaje.  Además, trabajo con lanas y estoy aprendiendo a hilar, con huso y rueca.

No sé si es posible, pero me gustaría ganarme algunos de los bolsos.

Gracias, por la información que recibo habitualmente, por email,

Cute travel stuff. I will be traveling down to visit with my MIL more this summer as my FIL just passed away... so I will need to take some portable fun projects as well as the stuff to make new curtains and stuff. I aim to get out to the state park behind where she lives. It is on a historic estate and the gardens, old buildings and views of the river are great inspiration for sketching and painting. Have fun every one!

Wow, what a cool gift! I'm going a on a cruise to the Baltic & am planning to do an artists book based on the trip. I'll use the sightseeing daytrips to gather imagery & the on-board days to paint, stamp, sew, etc, in my book.  Can't wait, so excited. Yea, summer!!!!

The bags are darling and what a cute little iron!

What a neat giveaway!

This summer I will be traveling to Pittsburgh PA and Dallas TX.  Family there.  In Dallas, I keep a duplicate of my quilting things.  I get to shop at fabric stores and quilts shops there.  In Columbus Mississippi, we only have a small fabric dept at Walmart.  Love the big city for shopping.  Would love to have any of the items for my travel.  Today (Fri, June 5th) going to Jackson MS for a quilt gathering of the Mississippi Quilters Association.  Taking a class tomorrow.

Jo Anne Slancauskas

I am off with my husband and teenage son to Ireland, they will be playing golf and I am planning to take my usual travel art bag (though yours look way cooler!) Whilst painting is not always my favoured past-time I am taking some acrylic paints a pocket size sketch book and some canvas (like tapestry canvas) on which to  paint and then stitch. I have been shown a technique where youcolour the canvas with the paint then add stitch in a fairly haphazard way. I am hoping the coastline of Ireland may inspire me . You could try stamping on the canvas,adding applique, weaving with thread or wool or ribbon..or fusing it with that lovely iron...this sounds promising lets see what the holiday produces!

What am I going to do that's artsy this summer... I have so much planned! One thing that's going to allow me to do a lot is having Farmor (grandma) take the kids one day a week. I'm planning on silkscreening, sunprinting and trying to take a cue from African-American quilters and do some 'Accidentally on Purpose' designing. I've already invited some students and former students to plan days to come over try stuff out. That way I HAVE to work on what I've planned that day (and no getting sucked into napping in the sun...).

I also plan on having at least one 'date' with my inner artist and go check out what's going on at the Louisiana museum in Denmark!

I am going to hit the museums and make the time for my art! Also a trip or two to the beach to collect and breathe clean ocean air.

I am going to teach some art at our local Boys and Girls club this summer.  One of these travel bags would be very handy!  vsheehan

Love those bags, I am going to a sewing retreat in October, how cool would that be to show off those bags and iron.   Over the next month I am starting a wall quilt showing my family tree; it's sketched out and I have been pouring over issues of Cloth Paper Scissors for more inspiration.

A lot of art plans this summer for me . In June I will visit an Textil Art Show and some workshops there in my hometown Berlin, Germany. I will work on my first fabric journal after this event. I hope I will learn some mixed media techniques that will help me with my journal. In August I will prepare myself for the Stempelmekka in Hagen, Germany. I will swap ATCs with many participants there, so I like to make as much ATCs as I can do until this show. I will go to Hagen with a friend who I will meet in Munich some days before. We are stamping and playing with art together for many years. I am looking for a good case for art supplies to travel with and these bags are wonderful and perfect for this.

Thank you for inspiration in CPS and please give me some luck for winning this beautiful turquoise art travel bag !

Greets from Berlin,

Angela

angelasturm.blogspot.com

I am  a 75 year old teacher of quilting and surface design .  I teach over the southeast and I  think I need one of t hose do not you???????     Priscilla E Hair  pehquilt@charter.net

This summer I'll spend a week teaching kids (ages 9-14), at a sleep over music camp, about the joys of creating. The camp is very high energy as the campers spend their days learning about music and drama through rehearsals and classes. I plan projects that allow them to express themselves through art in a low key, relaxed environment. It's an amazing experience to watch as they get into their projects, interact with each other and express their inner self.

I am a bag addict.  I adore buying new bags and organizing my stuff.  As a knitter, I'm always on the lookout for multi-functional bags that I can take my knitting and supplies along with my regular everyday stuff.  My biggest problem is usually that I want to take it all (just in case I might need it!)  

BTW, I really enjoy Studios.  Something so inspiring about looking in at other studios!  

Oh very nice stuff! So portable and decorative...love it! My artsy summer projects are catching up on my journal quilt project...trying to do 1 a month and it's June and I'm still on April's quilt!!! AND finishing a baby quilt cut from my husband's old shirts for my baby boy due to arrive July 31st! :) Beth

bybethstudio.etsy.com

I am going to OH for 2 weeks to babysit with my two grandchildren while their parents are away celebrating their anniversary. This is the best vacation for me. I get to influence by grandchildren with my love of crafts - painting, sculpting, sewing, needlework, etc. I do it all!!!Trying to figure out how to take my lighted magnifying glass with me so I can work on my hand sewing. Have several projects in the works from smocking a dress to making a twin sized quilt for my grandson. What a beautiful way to get organized.

Wow what great bags...I'm a storage-on-the-go-bagoholic  We go RVing almost every week-end..and you know a girl just has to have all the right tools with her to get the job done....and these bags are so much prettier than my current tool boxes !!

Even if I don't get to travel to a workshop, the bags would look really nice as storage in my sewing room.

The bags are gorgeous! I am in a couple of workshops this summer...one is for Miniature Landscapes, andother is for hand felting small figures, and the last one is a knitting course in Dublin. The bags would be perfect for taking to the workshops, as I always take the bus, as I live in wilds of Donegal County, Ireland. The trip to Dublin is almost 5 hours, so it looks like the bags would be perfect.

Micki

Storage is always an issue--will be traveling this summer-hope to gather tickets,menus,postcards etc.--a place to collect it all would be a true blessing. Get a lot of use out of the DVD's.

I can't wait for my issue!

Hopefully we will get a trip to Northern Michigan in this summer. I usually travel with sketch book, various pens and pencils and a camera so I can draw out any inspirations that may come my way while on vacation. I'm also hoping to play around with some fabric dyeing, Polaroid transfers on fabric and maybe some fun projects with the kids this summer.

One would think with all of the cute storage containers that I buy my studio would be uncluttered...not going to happen.  Too busy working on sample quilts for a quilt store in Pennsylvania.  Having too good of a time creating to worry about clutter.  Just close my door and put the "Do Not Enter" sign up.

Wow great timing. I'm planning on some painting or at least picture taking and sketching on Manitoulin Island this summer. One of these bags would make it an artsy adventure for sure. Thanks for the chance!

Wonderful bags in beautiful colours! - I make somekind of art everyday, no matter if it's summer or winter: painting, cross stitches, kniting, crochet laces... Creating by hand is my whole life, if you know, what I mean! Have a beautiful summer!

I'm going to visit the museums in my city.

 Love the totes and iron! This summer I plan to play with tsukineko inks and markers. I want to be able to include them in my style of art. I'd also like to start an art blog. I plan to spend some time in the mountains of Virginia this summer gathering inspiration for future projects.

Now that DH is retired, we spend a great deal of time on the road: traveling to see children and grandchildren, seeing the sights along the "blue roads" that we never had time for before.  We have a motorhome and the bags like you have here could make the clever packing of materials so much easier.  Space is always at a premium.  I have nearly completed a major piece and am looking forward now to trying something totally new and different.  I am almost giddy with the excitement of taking off on a new path.  

I enjoy a design group that likes to take field trips to nearby cities whenever possible in order to visit quilt shops, seminars and exhibits.  We have another trip planned for next week!

The something "arty" that I'm doing this summer is a mission trip to Kenya to teach a group of women to design story quilts.  A different group with aptitude will learn to run a business and so the project will have a self-help outcome.