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I got a pristine Featherweight a month ago! Love it!! Pieced this cushion on it last weekend!!!
Selvedge cushion pieced on Featherweight! [ATTACH=CONFIG]266124[/ATTACH] |
Originally Posted by CoventryUK
I got a pristine Featherweight a month ago! Love it!! Pieced this cushion on it last weekend!!!
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Originally Posted by Crossstitcher
Here is a little girl I made on my 301. A lady on the quilting board made one of these and told us where to get the pattern.
She is a Sunbonnet Sue Door Stop. Her body is a 2L. bottle filled with sand. She will be my christmas present to a secret pal in the qult club. The pattern doesn't call for her to have a face, but I think if I make another I will make a face and put long hair on her. That's a cute little doll! I like the fabrics that you used. Your doll door stop would make for a very nice baby shower gift or little girl's room gift along with a small quilt. |
Originally Posted by purplefiend
I made this quilt using my Singers 201K treadle and 1957/51 featherweights; I quilted it on a long arm machine. The pattern is "Double Sawtooth Star" 90" x 103". Its made with lots of woven plaids and striped fabrics and Civil war reproduction shirting prints. There is no quick piecing done, the vintage straight stitch machines are wonderful for piecing triangles, no zig zig hole to eat the points. The binding was sewn on with my older Pfaff 1222E, about 1978 vintage. It belongs to my son, he loves his new quilt.
This weekend it won a 3rd place ribbon at The Chisholm Trail quilt show, in Round Rock,Texas. My first ribbon ever! Sharon W. in Texas Sharon, Again, congrats on your winnings. You did an excellent job! It is a very handsome quilt! |
Hi Muv,
I like my treadles, but the electrics go lots faster when I need to. :shock: I sew fast when I'm piecing strips for quilts. The treadles get used most late in the evening when I'm not quite sleepy enough to go to bed. The featherweight that I found at a pawn shop started my sewing machine acquisition disorder(SMAD). I learned to sew as a child on Mom's Singer T&S, I greatly detested that machine...I swear it hated me. Sharon W. in Texas |
Originally Posted by purplefiend
Hi Muv,
I like my treadles, but the electrics go lots faster when I need to. :shock: I sew fast when I'm piecing strips for quilts. The treadles get used most late in the evening when I'm not quite sleepy enough to go to bed. The featherweight that I found at a pawn shop started my sewing machine acquisition disorder(SMAD). I learned to sew as a child on Mom's Singer T&S, I greatly detested that machine...I swear it hated me. Sharon W. in Texas |
Originally Posted by CoventryUK
I got a pristine Featherweight a month ago! Love it!! Pieced this cushion on it last weekend!!!
I really want to try to make something out of these strips (I have them saved up - mostly thanks to Wildyard.) And I've been looking for something with straight lines to practice my foot work for my treadle - maybe something like this would be good to try out all the vintage machines. |
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Originally Posted by Crossstitcher
Here is a little girl I made on my 301. A lady on the quilting board made one of these and told us where to get the pattern.
She is a Sunbonnet Sue Door Stop. Her body is a 2L. bottle filled with sand. She will be my christmas present to a secret pal in the qult club. The pattern doesn't call for her to have a face, but I think if I make another I will make a face and put long hair on her. That's a cute little doll! I like the fabrics that you used. Your doll door stop would make for a very nice baby shower gift or little girl's room gift along with a small quilt. :thumbup: :thumbup: |
Originally Posted by Muv
Hello Linda - This is how to do it:-
In the top half of a piece of paper write out your word, actual size, making sure that you take one continuous line with as few changes of direction as possible. Fold the paper in half beneath the writing, so the writing shows on top, and insert a blank piece of paper, half the size of the first piece, between the the two folded halves. It should fit snugly inside. Now make sure your sewing machine is unthreaded, and sew along the writing. The inner piece of paper will stay in place once you have done the first few blank stitches. When you have finished you have the writing transferred onto the inner paper as a line of perforations. Use this second, smaller piece of paper as your pattern. Thread up your machine, pin the paper pattern to your material, and sew along the line of writing. When you have finished the paper comes away fairly easily because it has now been perforated twice. The advantages of this method is that you do not need to use any fabric marker, and you do not risk transferring any pencil or biro etc. from the paper you first wrote on. Also, the first time you do the blank sewing on the paper you have a practice run before doing the real thing. I've tried it once on a treadle and it drove me nuts. I've done it twice on a hand machine and it was ideal, because it is so much easier to go extra slow. |
I haven't made a quilt with mine yet, just got it loosened up and now to get it cleaned.
However, I did sew a piece of fabric together to check it. I was so excited, it sewed a perfect stitch!!! |
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Here is my Halloween Patchability Scarecrow I made using my 1953 Featherweight (in class). I quilted this little quilt with decorative stitches/cams from my 1961 Rocketeer 500a, put the binding on using my 1886 Davis Vertical Feed, then finished the binding with my 1976 Pfaff 1222e.
Nancy |
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Here is my Halloween Patchability Scarecrow I made using my 1953 Featherweight (in class). I quilted this little quilt with decorative stitches/cams from my 1961 Rocketeer 500a, put the binding on using my 1886 Davis Vertical Feed, then finished the binding with my 1976 Pfaff 1222e.
Nancy |
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Here is my Halloween Patchability Scarecrow I made using my 1953 Featherweight (in class). I quilted this little quilt with decorative stitches/cams from my 1961 Rocketeer 500a, put the binding on using my 1886 Davis Vertical Feed, then finished the binding with my 1976 Pfaff 1222e.
Nancy Nancy |
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Here is my Halloween Patchability Scarecrow I made using my 1953 Featherweight (in class). I quilted this little quilt with decorative stitches/cams from my 1961 Rocketeer 500a, put the binding on using my 1886 Davis Vertical Feed, then finished the binding with my 1976 Pfaff 1222e.
Nancy Nancy |
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Here are two of my veterans quilts I have made using my "Vintage Ladies" one was a 1919 red eye for peicing and quilting then used a davis VF for the bindings. One quilt is a one piece and just quilted. The star quilt I got the idea from Irish Rose here on the board.
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Nancy, I love your Halloween Patchability Scarecrow he is so cute.
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Cross stitcher and Nancy,
I like your quilts. Thank you for sharing them with us. :thumbup: |
Nancy--your scarecrow makes me smile, very cute.
Cross stitcher--very nice blue and yellow, that's one of my favorite color combos. |
Originally Posted by Crossstitcher
Here are two of my veterans quilts I have made using my "Vintage Ladies" one was a 1919 red eye for peicing and quilting then used a davis VF for the bindings. One quilt is a one piece and just quilted. The star quilt I got the idea from Irish Rose here on the board.
It's a wonderful thank for their duty. |
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Originally Posted by Crossstitcher
Here are two of my veterans quilts I have made using my "Vintage Ladies" one was a 1919 red eye for peicing and quilting then used a davis VF for the bindings. One quilt is a one piece and just quilted. The star quilt I got the idea from Irish Rose here on the board.
It's a wonderful thank for their duty. |
Originally Posted by Crossstitcher
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Originally Posted by Crossstitcher
Here are two of my veterans quilts I have made using my "Vintage Ladies" one was a 1919 red eye for peicing and quilting then used a davis VF for the bindings. One quilt is a one piece and just quilted. The star quilt I got the idea from Irish Rose here on the board.
It's a wonderful thank for their duty. And thank you Trish, Monica, Bennett, and Sharon, I like my Scarecrow too! Nancy |
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I use my featherweight for most of my piecing...ESPECIALLY for paper piecing. Here's a few projects I've paper pieced on my featherweight...
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Originally Posted by pumpkinpatchquilter
I use my featherweight for most of my piecing...ESPECIALLY for paper piecing. Here's a few projects I've paper pieced on my featherweight...
Nancy |
Pumpkinpatch,
Awesome quilts! I love them all! :thumbup: |
Pumpkinpatch, Very nice work! I love that kitty in the center of the one.
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Pumpkinpatch, Those quilts are just beautiful. I have never tried to do all those points yet. You did a great job.
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My avatar quilt is made with a Singer 66(1908 Lotus) Thought I would post it here were it belongs.
Glenn |
Originally Posted by Glenn
My avatar quilt is made with a Singer 66(1908 Lotus) Thought I would post it here were it belongs.
Glenn |
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I am working on this log cabin and star quilt for my son. I'm piecing it on a Featherweight...
Civil War Log Cabin in progress [ATTACH=CONFIG]276464[/ATTACH] |
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I also pieced these two on my avatar machine... Singer 66-1 treadle. I quilted them on my vintage Bernina Record 830.
Pooh Quilt [ATTACH=CONFIG]276468[/ATTACH] Quick and Simple Baby Quilt [ATTACH=CONFIG]276469[/ATTACH] |
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Glenn - I love the Victorian looking Dresden plate.
Here's my latest offering, which I made for the October doll quilt swap. It is raw edge applique. I used my Singer 99K hand machine to make it. I wasn't particularly pleased with the quilting, but my swap partner Needlegrammy was very sporting and loved it. I drew round a teapot to make the template [ATTACH=CONFIG]276491[/ATTACH] |
Originally Posted by Glenn
My avatar quilt is made with a Singer 66(1908 Lotus) Thought I would post it here were it belongs.
Glenn |
thank you ladies. I like it to but it took for ever to do the embroidery work on it my wife had to push me to finish it.
Glenn |
Thank you to those who complimented me on my projects - I do appreciate it!
I really enjoy seeing all your quilts as well as drooling over your machines... Sewbizgirl - I love seeing your modern machine in the background there and your featherweight in the foreground...that's how we do things around here too! It's nice to have the combination of using the older machines and new machines together. :) |
Glenn - that is a stunning Dresden :)
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very pretty quilt vintagemotif
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Originally Posted by Glenn
My avatar quilt is made with a Singer 66(1908 Lotus) Thought I would post it here were it belongs.
Glenn |
Originally Posted by pumpkinpatchquilter
I use my featherweight for most of my piecing...ESPECIALLY for paper piecing. Here's a few projects I've paper pieced on my featherweight...
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Thank you QuiltnNan! :)
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Glenn, I like your dresten plate. The hand work is really really nice. Reminds me of the way a crazy quilt is quilted.
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