Fabric and Racecars

After the Featherweight Maintenance Retreat at the Missouri Star Quilt Company Ruthie and I were able to do a little bit of fabric shopping.  Although I did make one note for next time -- plan ahead to do fabric shopping the day before the retreat... I know I would come home with more fabric for ...

Missouri Star Featherweight Maintenance Retreat Recap

Singer Featherweight Maintenance Workshop Retreatat the Missouri Star Quilt CompanyJune 20 - 22, 2016 We arrived in St. Joseph, Missouri on Sunday night and spent the evening with Dave and Sharon McCallum.  (Dave is the producer and author of the Featherweight Maintenance DVD and Book.)  We put...

Adele ~ A Very Special Featherweight

This month’s guest feature is a machine currently owned and cherished by Roberta Lynn.  Roberta has named this machine after her original owner, Adele (pictured below).  Adele ~ original owner to the Singer Featherweight 221 featured in this article.(Photo from 1986) Adele was the original ow...

Grizzly Bears Up Close

On our way out of Montana and after only about 15-20 minutes on the freeway we saw a billboard advertisement for the Montana Grizzly Encounter.  It was a rescue facility for domesticated grizzly bears.  (There is no such thing as a "domesticated bear", of course... but these are bears that would...

We're On The Road!

After five months of planning, preparing and packing we are finally on the road for the Singer Featherweight Maintenance Workshop Tour.  Bozeman, Montana was our first of seventeen stops along our ten week road trip this summer. Upon our arrival to the hotel the first night we were greeted with ...

X-Ray of a Singer Featherweight 221

Isn't this fascinating?  A customer sent this image to us after her machine was x-rayed recently.  I have had my Featherweight go through several scanners at the airport in the past, but didn't think to ask about getting a photograph.  The owner of this Singer 221 was fortunate enough to get a ...

Ruthie's "Pink" Singer Featherweight

Since before Ruthie was born, there has been this certain shade of pink that has followed her.  It all started with the antique shade of pink paint that softly adorned the walls of her nursery.  From there she had her patchwork quilt that I made her, a few special outfits, and as time went on, di...

FREE SINGER HAND CRANK PINKER!

UPDATE 06/01/2016:  And, we have a winner!  Gail Frohnert, you are the winner of this Singer Hand Crank Pinker.  Thank you so much for being a part of our wonderful Featherweight community and CONGRATULATIONS!  We will be getting your Pinker ready for shipment this week! Thank you so much for vi...

Let's Take a Tour of the New Website

As of last week, some of you have already discovered our newly remodeled website, but for those of you who are new, let me give you a little tour! So much to glean from, even from the Home Page! First stop -- the Schoolhouse!  This is probably the best feature of our new site.  It has the most c...

Engaged!

Our employee, Rebekah, arrived to work today.... with Carm, Christian and Ruthie and I anxiously awaiting her to walk in the door.  You see, we had "Going to the Chapel...." (by the Dixie Cups) on pause, ready for my finger to hit play.  As soon as she brought the mail bins in the music blasted. ...