FeatherWeight Machine Maintenance

A couple of years ago I was given a featherweight table from a friend of mine. It was his grandmas I believe. He used it as a work bench. Needless to say the top was pretty beat up. I am in Baja California where there is a wonderful painter/artist. I asked him to paint the table for me. I am thrilled with the results. Thought I’d share my joy

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I am in Baja with some friends sewing today. Just realized we all have Featherweights!

A very cool tool. The binding foot. Learned how to use it to make ties for masks

THREAD DISCUSSION: 50 wt thread is 3 ply and designed for keeping 2 pieces of fabric together. 40wt and 30wt thread is usually for embroidery and considered decorative. 60 wt is 2 ply and is designed for embroidery bobbins, heirloom sewing (dainty stitches), dainty sewing, lettering in embroidery. Even as a quick fix, I would not use it in garments or "masks", bobbin or top thread. BTW, the medical industry is recommending Polyester Sewing thread for homemade "masks". Cotton ...thread or Polyester wrapped Cotton (Coats) is not recommended due to the number of times being laundered. Please don't use coats and clark it in your $15000 or more Sewing Machines or your featherweight. It is a very low grade cotton wrapping a polyester core. It is not long staple thread. It's short staple thread which is glued together not spun. And that glue gets on your tension disks and thru your threading system. ' I copied this post from another group i belong to. Just an FYI. Personally i don't use C&C thread at all anymore in any of my machines because of the lint factor Hope everyone is doing well in these crazy times Cindy

My hubby made me a very cool retractable design wall

Hi everyone I will be putting on a maintenance class on September 20th at Sew Katie Jeans quilt shop in lincoln, Ca. Their address is 561 5th st. Suite 100 and the phone number is (530) 450-5462. Give them a call if you are interested in learning how to service your featherweight machine. Class is limited

My latest quilt made for a Quilt of Valor recipient. Made on my 1957 222 featherweight

I got this little singer model 50 stitching today for one of my grands. He was so proud of himself

Had a impromptu maintenance class in baja. We had fun and my machine was in the most need of care

I never know what I will find when opening up a machine to clean it up. Never found this before though Baby pincher bugs

https://www.facebook.com/25176803390/posts/10156364493433391/ I thought I would share this post I saw from Quilting digest. Enjoy

It never pays to get budget brand needles, thread or rotary blades! Borrowed this post from mikes sewing machine repair

I thought I would share some beautiful quilts that were in the Bluegrass quilters quilt show in Blythe,ca. I know several of these were done on Featherweights!!