Found a Featherweight!

You never know what you'll find at a quilt guild meeting.  Last night was the Durham Orange Quilters Guild meeting and one of the members was selling a Centennial Featherweight!  It wasn't used very much from the looks of it, it's in excellent condition and all the gilding is completely intact.  Here's a photo of the Centennial badge.

The case is in near mint condition and it had 2 keys with it!  The power cord has quite a few cracks in it and I will need to do a little work on it to replace the power cord.  It's a repair  I'll do myself.  Another plus:  all the accessories came with it, including one rare item, a Singer needle threader/seam ripper.  

Featherweight sewing machines are highly sought after by quilters because they have a beautiful straight stitch.  The machines are fairly easy to come by if you look online.  I snapped this one up because it was in such fine condition and the price was lower than what these go for in this condition.

Under my needle

 I'm working on a client's quilt on this rainy, cold winter day.  It's a great day to be quilting!  The quilt on the frame today is a big one, king size and it's a beautiful quilt.

One Nation Under God

 Built into our constitution, our founding fathers built a foundation of freedom. From the beginning, Christianity was not the law of the land.  Christianity was the principle behind the law of the land. One undeniable fact: At its core, the United States of America is a Christian nation.  A noble and significant quality embedded in the Christian faith is freedom for the religions to compete in the public arena of ideas. Americans have the freedom to change their nation from a Christian nation to any other type of their choosing. The majority will decide. While giving us this freedom, there were warnings given by our founding fathers.

Ode to Sewing Machines #47

Many of you follow my "Ode to the Sewing Machine" posts.  We've all seen the ads on craigslist, ebay and elsewhere.  The clueless sellers give those of us who sew a belly laugh, or two!  Just when I think I've made enough Ode to Sewing Machine posts, I see another "can't believe this one" and I have to share it with you. Here's installment #47!  

If you give this to your Mother you better run!

This one isn't even worth $20!!