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Pearl River, New York Workshops, 2016

Our New York gals were not only fun to listen to with their fun northeastern accents, but they were all so much fun to have in class -- seeing them learn about their Featherweight machines and getting acquainted with fellow Featherweight friends from the surrounding areas.  And, for many it was a...

Road Trip

We are getting ready for the Workshop Tour and so we thought we'd catalog the event by having a special section of the blog for our big "Road Trip"!  You can follow us along at each Workshop stop and enjoy our sight-seeing adventures with us.  Carmon has been to a couple of these places in the pa...

Memphis, Tennessee - July 2016

Towards the end of July, 2016, we visited Memphis, Tennessee for the next Singer Featherweight Maintenance Workshop on our nationwide tour.  Growing up and living in Idaho, cockroaches are a thing we do not have the opportunity to experience.  We have other things, of course, but not cockroach...

How To Refurbish a Singer Featherweight Case

In this video tutorial, our young daughter, Ruthie, will show you all the restoration steps for how to clean, polish and refurbish/restore a Singer Featherweight case.  This process will work on all black Singer Featherweight cases. On our Singer Featherweight Maintenance Workshop Tour this past ...

Family Time in Georgia, 2016

After our stop in Woodstock (when we took our Featherweight Maintenance Workshop Tour in 2016) we spent several days with Uncle Charley and Aunt Sandy in Georgia.  We love them dearly and all of us enjoy just listening to their darling southern accents -- with "darlin'" and "sho'nough" being the ...

Featherweight Case Refurbishing

Over on the Featherweight Schoolhouse today (under maintenance), you'll find our latest video tutorial.  From a technical, how-to video standpoint, it is excellent -- showing you the entire restoration process for how to refurbish a Singer Featherweight case.  But, I must say, from a Mama's persp...

Christian, the Sewing Machine Guy

Many of you met our son, Christian, when we were on our Singer Featherweight Maintenance Workshop Tour in the summer of 2016.  He charmed the sweet, lovely ladies and enjoyed being their personal Featherweight technician for each class.   Yesterday, while flipping through some old photos I foun...

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 ...

Maintenance Screwdrivers for the Singer Featherweight 221 or 222K

These are the Featherweight Screwdrivers that everyone has been talking about from our Singer Featherweight Maintenance Workshop Tour of 2016. VIDEO #1 VIDEO #2 BELOW From Germany, this Wera Screwdriver is, by far, the best screwdriver we have found for use on the Singer Featherweight sewing ma...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

After New York City our family took an 8-day break from the Featherweight Workshops to tour our Nation's capitol and historical sights.  The first place we visited was Philadelphia.  It just so happened to be around the July 4th weekend, so there were several things we would not have ordinarily h...

Washington, D.C.

When we started planning for our Featherweight Maintenance Workshop Tour 2016 we knew that we would somehow want to incorporate a visit to Washington, D.C.  Carmon had visited the city in the fall of 2009 and had wanted to bring the rest of us to see US history first hand ever since.  It was cert...

Singer Manufacturing Company During The World War Years

Walking over a glass bridge suspended above a field of 9,000 poppies representing the nine million lives lost was such a sobering experience during the Henrys' visit to the World War I museum in 2015. After such an impression, the entire family decided to make a return visit in 2022 after the Fe...

Introducing the Super Easy Machine Needle Threader

We are so excited to now offer the Super Easy Machine Needle Threader for your Singer Featherweight. This will work on ALL household sewing machines, too, but we are partial to our Featherweights, aren't we?!  As an added bonus, it not only is helpful as a needle threader, but it easily inserts...

The Featherweight Shop Celebrates 20 Years

Twenty years! It’s hard to believe how quickly time has flown since we discovered our first Featherweight in 2005 and embarked on a journey we never could have imagined. To celebrate this special milestone, we’ve put together a timeline highlighting some of our favorite moments from 2005 to 2025...