Showing posts with label Featherweight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Featherweight. Show all posts

Monday, September 1, 2025

Take Me With You!

Retreat season is nearly here,

and I thought it would be a good time to inventory

the little work drawer in my featherweight!

I can get almost all I need for a weekend away sewing

in the little drawer or the machine box.


There are lots of extras I take to retreats;

larger cutting boards, bigger rotary cutters,

long rulers, but I have sewn for a whole weekend

with just what I had in my featherweight box!

Here's a quick list. 

                                            Spare bobbins

Needle threader

snips

Sewer's ease

Chain piecing Cutter

Two small rulers

Emery board 

Machine brush

reading glasses

Bag of clips

Machine feet

Band-Aid

Screwdriver

Angled tweezers

Pencil

Pen

Pins

Straight tweezers

Small scissors

Chapstick

Spare needles

Magnifying glasses

Many of the projects I take are 

cut out at home so I don't have to 

worry about the activities are retreat 

distracting me from measurements!

The machine power foot goes into the 

main box instead of the drawer to make 

room for my supplies. 

The retreat pile is growing daily!

Happy retreating!

Stay safe and sew on !






Monday, September 9, 2024

Books , books , books!

 It is holiday week for us so not a lot of stitching is getting done. 

I did have a minute to look at some quilting books!

We all have our favorites for lots of different reasons. 

Here are some of mine!


My BB gifted me this and it has been well loved. 

The spiral binding is nice and the best pages ever are:


The oiling instructions!

The remainder of the book is great too. 

David McCallum really knows his stuff and 

encourages Featherweight owners to be adventurous and 

repair their machines. Fun if you are brave but I am still 

not removing the tension knob!

Next favorite is this goody.  



I must say that this book really inspired me. 

I've made three out of this book and 2 actually

looked like the picture (more or less). 

The cover photo morphs into a completely different 

quilt if you make 150 subunits with the wrong color placement. 

Not sure how I managed but it turned out like this!


Also in this book are curved 9-patches. 

I cannot (will not, don't want to) sew

melon shapes so I waited until the 

Quick Curve ruler came out. 

I have 37 blocks made and still 

am not thrilled with the process. 

See the ruler lurking in the bag?




Then I saw a curved look one on MSQ.  I will 

post a link when I find it. They have so many tutorials. 

Here is a picture of another 'looks like a curved 9 patch'

 quilt I may try.  Always looking for a short cut!


One last thing about these books.

Some came coiled and some I did. 

We found this old relic at a sale years ago.
 


Anyone recognize these?



A box of spines!!

We had fun doing up a few books but it is a process.

You have to trim out the book, keep the pages 

in order and secure the cover. A bit tricky to do.

A business store made me one, and even

their experienced clerk put the holes on the 

wrong edge of the cover!

More about books in another post, 

I could go on and on!

The stash report number stayed the same, 

no completions this week.  

Stay safe and sew on .

Linking up with:

Monday Musing 

Stash Report

Design Wall Monday

Sew & Tell

Wednesday Wait Loss

Midweek Makers 

To do Tuesday

Needle & Thread Thursday

Put Your Foot Down

Free Motion Mavericks

Finished or Not Friday

Off the Wall Friday

Beauty Pageant

Oh Scrap!

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