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Farm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Shop Sew Along - Blocks 11 & 12 (Country Crossroads & Crops)
Block 11 & 12 are our featured blocks - Country Crossroads and Crops blocks! The Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop continues.... After laying out all my blocks I noticed that mine are needing a bit more pops of red for balance. Thus, I decided to incorporate som...
Read MoreGIVEAWAY December 2018! Blackside, Custom-Painted Singer Featherweight
Winner was announced Thursday, December 13th, at 10:00am, PST! *No purchase was required. This giveaway was open to the legal residents of the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the United Kingdom; voided where prohibited by law. Bona Fide Blackside Featherweight w...
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Block 9 & 10 are our featured blocks - Cool Threads and Corn & Tomatoes! The Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop continues; block 9 was a lot of fun to be creative with the thread spools! Ruthie had the idea of using a light brown fabric print for wooden spoo...
Read MoreOctober 3, 1933 - Happy Birthday, Singer Featherweight... PRIZES!
On October 3, 1933, the Singer Featherweight sewing machine model was officially commissioned or "born". Therefore, in honor of it's 85th birthday, we are giving away 1 of 33 Featherweight accessories! The approximate retail value of each of the prizes randomly selected range from $6.00 to $270...
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Farm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 7 & 8 (Chicken Foot & Churn Dash)
Block 7 & 8 are both being featured today... Chicken Foot and Churn Dash are the two blocks for the Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop! Block 7 has a number of pieces forming the "Chicken Foot"; it turns out so cute all sewn together in tiny detail. Block 8 is o...
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Farm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 6 (Canning Season)
Block 6 is here...Canning Season, of the Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop! This block features six canning jars -- just in time for late summer canning season. What about you? Are you canning peaches yet? If you're just now joining us, we are continuing with our F...
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Featherweight Dust Cover - Fussy Cutting and Alternate Construction
UPDATE: The "Fannie the Featherweight" fabric panels kit is now discontinued but we wanted to leave the tutorial here in case you run across one of these rare gems. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FREE PATTERN We are so excited that the Featherweight kits are already making their way through the mail...
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Farm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 5 (Butter Churn)
We are already on Block 5, Butter Churn, of the Farm Girl Vintage Quilt Sew Along with the Featherweight Shop! If you're just now joining us, we are continuing with our Farm Girl Vintage Sew Along at the Featherweight Shop! Grab some fabric, get it prepared and cut and let's enjoy some more Fe...
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This past year (or more) I have slowly been working on quilts that reflect the time of year or season. I finished a Lori Holt Christmas quilt in January and a Valentine's pillow for February as well as a Valentine quilt this spring (photos to come later). Well, this "Stars & Stripes" patrio...
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Farm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 4 (Baking Day)
Yay! It's so much fun to be moving right along with these Farm Girl Vintage blocks by Lori Holt... When cutting out block 3 (Baby Chick), I loved the colors so much that I decided to make cutting easy and continue with the colors of pink, yellow and red. My great-grandmother had a "big yellow ...
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