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Olympia, Washington Featherweight Maintenance Workshop - May 2018
Cindy M. is a fellow Featherweight Friend and it was so fun to finally meet her in real life! This is what we like to call our "peanut butter" machines, and every once in awhile we will come across one of these at our Singer Featherweight Maintenance Workshops. There isn't any reason for a Feat...
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Beaverton, Oregon Featherweight Maintenance Workshop - May 2018
Mid-May we were in the Portland, Oregon area for a recent Novice Featherweight Maintenance Workshop. We had the special treat of meeting more of our friends from the Featherweight Facebook Group as well as making new ones, too! Becki flew in from Missouri and was a pleasure to meet and have ...
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Farm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 2 (Autumn Star)
Today, we are featuring block 2 of the Farm Girl Vintage Sew Along at the Featherweight Shop! Many of us began by learning some of the quilting basics as the first block, Apron Strings, was completed. Many gained new confidence while preparing, cutting and sewing block 2, the Autumn Star. R...
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Farm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 1 (Apron Strings)
Today is the beginning of our Farm Girl Vintage Sew Along at the Featherweight Shop! The gals were eagerly anticipating this gathering after all packages were ric-rac tied and shipped because today we are featuring the start of a new quilt - some of us for the very first time. Awww, sweet Wen...
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Featherweight Shop Sew Along - Farm Girl Vintage Quilt
This past week, the Featherweight shop staff met and chose the Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Book as our next sew along. The quilt is adorable and appeals to many styles, the blocks are smaller at 6 1/2" square and will be fairly simple to construct (especially with Lori Holt's wonderful instructions...
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This post will end on a bit of a somber note.. just a forewarning..... We received an email from a customer, Kathy G. a couple of weeks ago inquiring about the Love Letter Pillow sew along we were having and her new venture into quilting. It was fun to answer her budding quilting questions and s...
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Some of you probably remember when we hired our very first employee, Rebekah. Then a couple of years ago we were so excited to see her get engaged and married to Burl. Well, they are expecting their first baby any day now and we had a baby shower for her just this past Sunday. A friend and I d...
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Cozy Christmas Quilt Top -- for the Christmas Eve Finish!
December 24th, 2017 This year I made haste and got all of our Christmas presents wrapped and under the tree so we could relax and have an enjoyable day on Christmas Eve as a family. In the afternoon, we made a yummy casserole for supper, frosted Christian's 18th birthday chocolate cake... then s...
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Every year we gear up for our 12 Days of Christmas Sales from December 1st - December 12th, and this year we thought we would post a few behind-the-scenes photos to show you some of your packages as they were being prepared! We were in our new building this year - literally, the first day of our...
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WINNER of the Singer Featherweight 222K "Red S" Free-Arm Sewing Machine!
From November 24th through December 12thwe held a drawing. CONGRATULATIONS, Marjorie LaTour, you are the winner! Your Featherweight is already in today's mail... Merry Christmas from the Featherweight Shop! *No purchase was required; all participants completed the form below and were entered...
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