Featherweight Club (Do you have a Featherweight if so post here so you can all chit chat) Everyone is Welcome!
11-03-2011, 08:58 AM
#791
Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: California
Posts: 66
I have two featherweights, one black and one white, complete with cases and basic attachments. I am always on the look out for special attachments and found quite a few. A great source for for quilting attachments is April's 1930s online shop. They are reasonable and very knowledgable.
11-03-2011, 11:11 AM
#793
Super Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Alabama
Posts: 1,589
I just won one on ebay , have been looking and searching and bidding off and on for four years now. It's about time,is all I can say. Love her,trying to come up with a name and can't wait to piece a quilt on her. She was made in 1941.
11-03-2011, 11:54 AM
#794
Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Michigan's Lower Peninsula
Posts: 69
I want to join too! I have a 1948 model 221 Featherweight I got for my anniversary from my DH in 2008. (I posted in another thread that it was a 1943 but hit the wrong key oops!) Here is a pic of mine.
Last edited by AnotherMadQuilter; 11-03-2011 at 11:58 AM.
11-03-2011, 12:27 PM
#795
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Western Kentucky
Posts: 3,209
I need help. I am threading my new to me 221 that I got yesterday. I cleaned it up inside and out, oiled it and it purrrrrrs! Love it! Which way does the needle go??? The flat side goes which direction??? Any help would be great! Thank you.
11-03-2011, 12:33 PM
#796
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 143
I probably have had my Featherweight longer that almost any one here. (Notice I said "almost", so not claiming to be the longest.)
I got my Featherweight on Mother's Day in 1973, which was my college graduation. My mother got it for me, and I did sew a few things on it over the years, but no quilting. Then I needed to have one of the fancy schmancy machines that are now available so it sits on the shelf, looking forlorn and unloved. I'll keep it forever though for sentimental reasons if nothing else. (I also have my mother's 301 which she bought new.)
I got my Featherweight on Mother's Day in 1973, which was my college graduation. My mother got it for me, and I did sew a few things on it over the years, but no quilting. Then I needed to have one of the fancy schmancy machines that are now available so it sits on the shelf, looking forlorn and unloved. I'll keep it forever though for sentimental reasons if nothing else. (I also have my mother's 301 which she bought new.)
11-04-2011, 12:47 AM
#797
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: IN
Posts: 285
Originally Posted by craftybear
I have a centennial am also looking for a '56, great year right?
11-05-2011, 10:36 PM
#799
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Coastal Florida
Posts: 946
I have my first (?) Featherweight 221... found it abandoned on the floor of a dingy thrift store. Got it for $10. Yup! I was shaking! Case has no inside tray, but it did have most of it's attachments. I needed to totally strip, clean and lube her. She's been used... but the former owner obviously got fed up? 'cause I cleaned out a thread nest in the bobbin area, the bobbin race was missing it's grub/set screw, the terminal block was broken and there was thread wound around the balance wheel shaft. Hum. She's now working just fine, but I haven't been sewing much in the last few months. Gonna try her out on some simple piecing... and get to know her a little better. It's funny, I never thought I'd get a FW, 'cause I just wasn't enthused by them. NOW, I love them! I've joined the club!
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
