Featherweight Club (Do you have a Featherweight if so post here so you can all chit chat) Everyone is Welcome!
06-09-2011, 04:24 AM
#411
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Alabama
Posts: 117
Originally Posted by Quilt
Where can I purchase Dave McCallum's book "My Featherweight and I"?
http://www.connectingthreads.com
Best reference set that I have ever bought! Pricey- but well worth every cent!
06-09-2011, 04:54 AM
#413
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Stevensville, MD
Posts: 463
I am constantly delighted by how beautiful a stitch my Anise sews. Really, I hadn't realized just how fun and easy to use these machines were before I got one myself! Hadn't thought there would be much of a difference between sewing with my Mom's recent plastic Singer from Joann's and with an older Singer. Haha, shows how naive I was.
I don't know if I'll ever piece with anything else, not with how perfect the seams turn out. And it's so awesome that she's been sewing this well for 63 years? 39 more than I've been alive!
I don't know if I'll ever piece with anything else, not with how perfect the seams turn out. And it's so awesome that she's been sewing this well for 63 years? 39 more than I've been alive!
06-09-2011, 06:43 PM
#414
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posts: 1,775
Originally Posted by Quilt
Where can I purchase Dave McCallum's book "My Featherweight and I"?
He recently started a blog, on his website, that has lots of helpful advice for FW owners.
06-10-2011, 08:34 AM
#415
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada; Florida in the winter
Posts: 721
Hope you enjoy Tryphena Louisa's new coat of many colours and her "underwear"!!!
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-129412-1.htm
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-129412-1.htm
06-10-2011, 01:16 PM
#416
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posts: 1,775
Originally Posted by canuckninepatch
Hope you enjoy Tryphena Louisa's new coat of many colours and her "underwear"!!!
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-129412-1.htm
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-129412-1.htm
06-12-2011, 12:48 PM
#417
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Webster, NY
Posts: 1,002
Well, the shop called yesterday to say my Featherweight was ready, so I went to pick her up. It also happened to be the day after my DD brought her baby home from the hospital AND my other DD was visiting with my other GD and MIL and FIL was visiting, so I made a very short trip to pick it up. Long and short - bill was $88. It says it was a complete tune-up, with replacing the bulb and the belt. 1 year warranty. They said they would polish it (not done)and they belt they put on it was a red one. So 5 weeks after I dropped it off, I have my FW back, I could have replaced the bulb myself, may still replace the belt (they gave me the old one - looked fine to me - but what do I know). I asked about oil and lube - they said any lightweight machine oil and sold me some of the one they used. I still don't know if they lubed the motor and I need to do my 99. Is the Singer lube they sell at JoAnn fabrics the same lube or is that something different? I'll post pictures of my FW when I can polish her up a little more and I can rest up a bit. She does sew nice, but its been a really bad experience. On the other hand - my new baby granddaughter is adorable!
My GDs - worth more than all my machines put together!
[ATTACH=CONFIG]210494[/ATTACH]
06-12-2011, 01:57 PM
#418
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posts: 1,775
That picture is priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are both beautiful.
Get yourself a copy of Dave McCallum's book and save yourself the $88.00. Everything that the shop did for your FW you can do yourself.
Get yourself a copy of Dave McCallum's book and save yourself the $88.00. Everything that the shop did for your FW you can do yourself.
06-12-2011, 02:29 PM
#419
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Sparta, Missouri
Posts: 1,115
I can't believe that I have two and never sewed a stitch with either one! I got them both just before we moved to MO and just haven't gotten them out! If I remember right one of them was born in '47. One has scroll work and the other is striated. Both very good looking. Maybe I'll dig them out and join the FW sewing group at LQS before long.
06-12-2011, 09:17 PM
#420
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Lakeland,Fl
Posts: 1,493
I've had mine acouple years now, love it. She was born in 1934 and she hasn't been named yet. I bought her from a lady in my quilting club, $300. Lots of attachments new belt runs great. Had to buy a book for it from the repair shop. Barb
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
craftybear
Main
1315
07-27-2021 09:19 PM
craftybear
Main
7
06-26-2010 05:07 AM
Elisabrat
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
12
12-02-2009 09:48 PM
