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Farm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 7 & 8 (Chicken Foot & Churn Dash)

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)

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

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)

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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Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!

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)

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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Farm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 3 (Baby Chick)

Farm Girl Vintage Quilt & Featherweight Sew Along - Block 3 (Baby Chick)

Today, we are featuring block 3 of the Farm Girl Vintage Sew Along at the Featherweight Shop!  Last block we learned about pressing seams open and cutting accurately when we sewed Block 2, Autum Star.  This installment we will be adding a small, but new technique to our blocks with simple embroi...

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Day in Seattle

Day in Seattle

After our workshops in Olympia, Washington we took a day with the kids and visited the iconic Pike's Place Market!  A few donuts, some fresh flowers and the infamous gum wall were the highlights of our day. An entire wall... and surrounding walls, actually, of A.B.C. gum.  That's "Already Been...

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Olympia, Washington Featherweight Maintenance Workshop - May 2018

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

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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