After renovating and painting our 1980s Abi Ace Globetrotter caravan, which you can follow here and here, I’ve moved into it as a temporary sewing space. In the busy time leading up to Christmas, I spent many early mornings in here wrapping and packing orders, with the little electric stove going and plenty of hot tea!
I’ve created quite a few sewing spaces over the years, and I like the continuity provided by all the familiar storage boxes and stacks of colourful felt and fabrics. The tiny bathroom in the caravan was the perfect place to fit my old Post Office drawers. They hold fabrics, patterns, threads and sewing notions for hand and machine stitching.
The kitchen area of the caravan had a worktop at standing height, which happened to be the perfect size for a 1 metre long worktop to slot in. This space is for cutting out ornaments and for packing orders. All the bits and pieces for order packing are in the metal trolley, which can be moved out of the way when I’m doing something else.
I’ve always intended to clean the labels off the mini jam jars which store the tiny buttons but haven’t got round to it yet!
Two worktops at right angles make a table for the sewing machine, with my mini iron nearby. I made the ironing pad to fit on top of the trolley, so it can be wheeled around, or removed and used on the work surface instead. Various small containers store buttons, ribbon, magnets and all the other accumulated supplies that might come in useful.
More worktops at the other end of the caravan provide space for my Cricut cutting machine, and for spreading everything out when making up kits or packing orders.
The electric stove heater is quite efficient in such a small space and helps to keep the damp at bay. It’s always a challenge to use a caravan year-round in the Irish climate ~ I know because I lived in caravans for several years! It can be a battle against cold, damp and condensation, but when the sun’s shining, they are transformed into charming and cosy little workspaces. I hope to put a small garden building behind our house at some point, to provide a more long-term studio, but in the mean time this suits me very well.
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