TV icons Lucy and Ricky (aka Nicky and Tacy) once honeymooned and moved to a new home in an (also iconic) Airstream trailer in the movie The Long, Long Trailer. Their adventures ranged from cooking meals while zipping down the highway to collecting stones across the way, and the vintage movie still has huge appeal even today.
These beauties–the movie and the ‘Stream–bring us back to a simpler time, when families traipsed across the country on our shiny, new, interstate system, camping here and there having almost all of the comforts of home –beds, kitchen table, stove and sink. These trips gave way to hotels, restaurants and touristy shopping… Oh,dear! Just thinking about this has me itching for a quilting road trip!
Filed under the category of “everything old is new again” is the idea of glamping–glamorous camping. The Airstream or pull-along trailer is once again making a great comeback as there is a deep sense of nostalgia mixed with something fun and new. Even the quilting world has gone glamping! 
So Q-bies, meet designer Carina Gardner! Her resume is the dream of many a quilter, artist and all around fun person. A while back, she glamped up a 1950s/1960s style camper. Check out her adventure here and here. Oh, my goodness! This is a thing of beauty and a joy to behold.
Carina made great use of all the available space to decorate the glamper–even the outside with dots. How cool is this?! Be still my heart.
She’s using it to spread a little fabricky joy on a tour of four quilt shops:
3/22 – My Girlfriends Quilt Shoppe in Logan, UT
4/19 – Quiltique in Las Vegas, NV
5/3 – Pine Needles in West Jordan, UT and
5/10 – Deseret Book – Mormon Handicraft Fort Union, UT.
Go here to see if she’ll be in your area. (Then you can go and drool on the glamper in person!)
Don’t know about you, but I’m ready to start camping, glamping style. I’m ditching the tent, and sleeping bags for a bed and kitchen table. (I’ll keep the charcoal grill, though, thank you very much!) I can see my sewing machine set up on the table, a huge stash of thread at the ready, pretty fabric and some seriously quiet quilting time.
Hey, if you hunt Carina down on one of her tour stops, shoot us an email at teri@generationqmagazine.com and let us know what you thought! We might pass on your comments to the rest of our tribe.
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