GIVEAWAY December 2021! Sugar Cookie, Custom Painted Singer Featherweight

Congratulations to the 2021 Holiday Singer Featherweight "Sugar Cookie" Giveaway Winner:  Connie Egbers from Kentucky! This Singer Featherweight 221 is absolutely stunning in this 'Sugar Cookie' color!  Completely restored inside and out - this Featherweight 221 will be ready to sew righ...

DIY Quilt at The Featherweight Shop ~ Part 5

Welcome back! I am tickled with all of this quilting, autumn weather, and anticipation for the holiday season! As I am writing this, we are having a very much-needed storm up in the Idaho foothills. There has been so much smoke from the fires burning this fire season that all the kid's soccer ga...

What's New in The Featherweight Shop Vintage Collection - November 2021

Here at the Featherweight Shop, we have quite the collection of vintage Singer items.  Due to our remote location, very few customers have had the opportunity to see the many rare Singer items we have.  This series of blog posts brings our collection out for all to see what new items we get in.  ...

DIY Quilt at The Featherweight Shop ~ Part 4 Block 1

Welcome back to the DIY Vintage Featherweight Patchwork Sew Along! Read the DIY Vintage Patchwork Sew Along Part 3 HERE. Who is ready to start sewing a block?! I know I sure am. Using the Cake Mix Recipe, you will have enough "ingredients" to make 42 9" blocks. By this time, I will lay out on a ...

Featherweight Case Restore Along: Part 15 & 16 - Apply Leather to the Case Handles

Welcome back to the Singer Featherweight Case Restore Along! If you are just joining us, you can catch up on Part 14 of the Case Restore Along right HERE! Earlier this year, we crossed paths with Annette on our Singer Featherweight 221 & 222 Facebook Group, showcasing one of her beautiful Fea...

Featherweight Embroidery: Part 7 ~ Finishing Lori Holt Happy Colors

Part 7: This week's progress included finishing my embroidery and getting the pieced frame ready to assemble. I decided to do the large flowers the same color, but you could make it even more colorful if you used other colors when doing the bouquet. We used the Quilter's Dream Pattern for our Sin...

DIY Quilt at The Featherweight Shop ~ Part 3

Welcome back to the "Do It Yourself" Sew Along! I don't know about you, but I love it when I get to the part of seeing the fabric combinations coming together. I have been looking forward to this particular quilt pattern and fabric combination for some time now. The mellow cream offset by the ti...

Featherweight Embroidery: Part 6 ~ Colorful Stitch Progress

Part 6: I've been stitching away on my Lori Holt version of A Quilter's Dream, and it has been fun to work with all the colors this time around. The embroidery has been coming along quite rapidly. We used the Quilter's Dream Pattern for our Singer Featherweight Embroidery Stitch Along Series.

Sew Along: BLOCK 8 Sewing North to Alaska by Featherweight

We have quite a stack of blocks by now, don't we?!  After last month's sewing, you should now have a total of 28 blocks sewn and set aside.  I do enjoy stacking them all up neatly and seeing the visual progress.  It keeps me motivated to cross the finish line, so let's now begin Block 8 with anot...

Sew Along: BLOCK 7 Sewing North to Alaska by Featherweight

Fall is here and so is national sewing month!  I'm switching up from coffee to tea for a nice hot beverage change and Ruthie is in the kitchen making pumpkin bread... I have several sewing irons in the fire (so-to-speak) with a few quilts sewing in tandem and we are all ready for sewing season! B...