Featherweight Club (Do you have a Featherweight if so post here so you can all chit chat) Everyone is Welcome!
#1051
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Timmins, Ont. Canada
Posts: 4,683
I have a FW made in 1946 which so happens to be my birth year so I just had to have her. In very good shape, included the case, & lots of accessories. Had researched & was told that they ranged anywhere from $300. & up & I paid $300so I felt I got a good deal. The best thing was that I got it off eBay here in Canada & that doesn't happen very often so of course, I saved on the shipping, exchange etc.
Last edited by callen; 06-04-2012 at 12:36 PM. Reason: grammar
#1052
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Martinsville, Indiana
Posts: 1,430
Congratulations Callen on your 1946 featherweight. It is close to one of mine in age. I got a 1945 FW that was allotted on Sept. 19, 1945, just a few days after my birth. Isn't it neat having a machine from the year of your birth? I think so. I bought mine from a member here on the board last fall. Sew-classic here in the US has bobbins and things for your machine, if they ship to Canada.
#1053
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Baileys Prairie, Texas
Posts: 294
I have two....a black one that I inherited from a quilting buddy when she passed and a cream colored one I bought about 20 years ago. Both are used on a fairly regular basis. One travels with us in the RV whenever we leave home. The other one travels when we go by car. I try to rotate them so they get equal usuage. I spent 5 days in Phoenix in May at my son's house and got half of a flannel quilt made for my mother. my cream one spent four years at college when my youngest daughter left home for school. It came back just fine. I bought my daughter a used bernina 10 years ago and last week she posted on facebook that she was happy I had taught her to sew. She saved about $300 on alterations on her two daughters costumes for their dance programs. Some times it takes awhile to understand the importance in learning some basic sewing skills.
#1055
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Harrisburg, OR
Posts: 443
Something like this would be way easier, especially since there isn't a free arm to work around with a fw. Unless you want it folding of course, then this wouldn't work for you.
http://blog.bluedinosaurs.com/2011/0...ing-table.html
http://blog.bluedinosaurs.com/2011/0...ing-table.html
#1056
Still, the FW is light enough that reverse engineering a usable table is certainly doable. After all, it only has to support 11 pounds, not 40!
#1057
Here is a FeatherWeight Card Table I picked up today with a machine. I am so excited to clean them both up! :-)
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Front Folded Up
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Her Under Side
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Close Up Of The Brackets
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Set Up With Insert In
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Ready To Sew!
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Front Folded Up
[ATTACH=CONFIG]341231[/ATTACH]
Her Under Side
[ATTACH=CONFIG]341232[/ATTACH]
Close Up Of The Brackets
[ATTACH=CONFIG]341233[/ATTACH]
Set Up With Insert In
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Ready To Sew!
#1060
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Baileys Prairie, Texas
Posts: 294
I have two featherweights (both un-named) my friend Pat found the first one at a flea market in Alabama about twenty years ago. It the "Green"one. My quilting friend Donna past away about 10 years ago and her husband gave me her black one. They travel with me by car or by RV. I trade them back and forth so there is no jealousy. Sometimes when I go to a retreat, I take both of them. My green one went to college with my younger daughter. I thought I would never get it back.
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