FeatherWeight Qwners

Me too!I wish I could find another to sell! Ebay had one a couple years ago
that went for,IIRC,$3500.Shipping would be a problem,thogh.
Shelly-who's not selling

"LC aka Fiddy" wrote in message
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ooowww...any deal on a FW cabinet would make me drool...

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

In 1957 when I was going to live in a dorm with my Mom's encouragement I spent
half my meager savings to buy a 2 year old Featherweight complete with a
buttonholer from someone who thought she would learn to sew and didn't like it.
It stitched a lot of clothes including several wool suits, my wedding dress,
drapes for our first house, a maternity wardrobe, lots of kids clothes. I kept
it for the daughter I thought might arrive when I bought a new Viking in about
1966. We only had sons but I'm really glad I kept the Featherweight. It goes
to classes and was used a lot when I taught my 1 and only granddaughter to sew
-- we have 3 grandsons.

Cheers, Faye in CO

I have two. One dh and I found in an antique store for $35! Then I talked
her down to $31.50. This little machine sews like a dream and my sewing
machine guy tells me that it is one of the best ones made! The other FW I
got on EBay. It also sews like a dream. I love my little machines.
hugs,
la

--
Leigh Anne Haygood
The Scarlet Thread
www.lahaygood.com
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're
going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

Will Durant
"Bonnie" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I was wondering how many Featherweight
owners are there in this group?
I have just made the winning bid on one
on EBay and I'm very eager to get my
hands on the machine!
--
Bonnie
NJ

Boy, let me know if that works! Have fun!
--
Alice in NJ
www.ourcyberfamily.us
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
John Churton Collins




"LC aka Fiddy" wrote in message
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An heir is anyone or anything you'd like to leave something or everything
to! No QIs in your family???? Your DD may be the only child, but be
assured, she is not the only heir! VBG!

I have a QI, but my plan is to leave it all to the girl. I'm using it as
leverage for her to behave herself..ROFL...



The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

Our household has six FWs. The DW has an AG model and a Centennial model
either of which she likes to use for quilting better than her Janome. I have
four in various stages of restoration. I'm always looking for the frogs I
can turn into jewels.

Tim Traylor
Mountain View, AR


"lahaygood" wrote in message
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I have two. One dh and I found in an antique store for $35! Then I
talked
her down to $31.50. This little machine sews like a dream and my sewing
machine guy tells me that it is one of the best ones made! The other FW I
got on EBay. It also sews like a dream. I love my little machines.
hugs,
la

--
Leigh Anne Haygood
The Scarlet Thread
www.lahaygood.com
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're
going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

Will Durant
"Bonnie" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I was wondering how many Featherweight
owners are there in this group?
I have just made the winning bid on one
on EBay and I'm very eager to get my
hands on the machine!
--
Bonnie
NJ

I've got several. Ummm, several more than several. You see, it all started
when I won the auction on one FW, and figured someone would come along and
snipe the other FW I was bidding on that closed 20 minutes later. Nobody
did, so I was the instant owner of two FWs. One of them was made in late
1950, and I haven't used it much (even though it is an excellent machine) --
the 1937 FW has been my workhorse for more than a year, mainly because it's
sitting out most of the time! I also have a white (barely celery) FW, a
freearm 222 FW, a tan FW, and a candidate for painting from 1957. I think
that's all of them but there may be one more I'm forgetting about.

Dragonfly

"Bonnie" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I was wondering how many Featherweight
owners are there in this group?
I have just made the winning bid on one
on EBay and I'm very eager to get my
hands on the machine!
--
Bonnie
NJ

Mine went on "vacation" with me about a year and a half ago. It was a
week-long quilt workshop in Taos, NM, so I suppose that makes it a "working"
vacation. The FW worked, anyhow! I played.

Dragonfly

"LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote in message
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Wow. When mine hears this, it's gonna go on strike for better benefits.

--
LN in NH
a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér
all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts!
http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed

"Susan Laity Price" wrote in message
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Just took my Featherweight on vacation.

Hi Everyone!

I really want to bid on a Featherweight on Ebay, but there are so many, and
I'm sooo confused about which one to bid on. I know I want one made in the
U.S. so I don't have to worry about the converter thing. What's the most
important thing to look for in the info they give? I do look at the
seller's feedback report. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Paula

"Dragonfly" wrote in message
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I've got several. Ummm, several more than several. You see, it all started
when I won the auction on one FW, and figured someone would come along and
snipe the other FW I was bidding on that closed 20 minutes later. Nobody
did, so I was the instant owner of two FWs. One of them was made in late
1950, and I haven't used it much (even though it is an excellent
machine) --
the 1937 FW has been my workhorse for more than a year, mainly because
it's
sitting out most of the time! I also have a white (barely celery) FW, a
freearm 222 FW, a tan FW, and a candidate for painting from 1957. I think
that's all of them but there may be one more I'm forgetting about.

Dragonfly

"Bonnie" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I was wondering how many Featherweight
owners are there in this group?
I have just made the winning bid on one
on EBay and I'm very eager to get my
hands on the machine!
--
Bonnie
NJ

I once sold a 301 on Ebay for a pretty high price and I had
forgotten to even mention that it sewed/ran and nobody asked.
Get the Nancy Srebro Johneson book and sign up for the
featherweight fanatics list and you'll get lots of good info to
start with. Watch completed auctions too. If you aren't in a hurry
prices on FW's usually go down after Valentine day.
Taria

aluap wrote:

Hi Everyone!

I really want to bid on a Featherweight on Ebay, but there are so many, and
I'm sooo confused about which one to bid on. I know I want one made in the
U.S. so I don't have to worry about the converter thing. What's the most
important thing to look for in the info they give? I do look at the
seller's feedback report. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Paula

"Dragonfly" wrote in message
...
I've got several. Ummm, several more than several. You see, it all started
when I won the auction on one FW, and figured someone would come along and
snipe the other FW I was bidding on that closed 20 minutes later. Nobody
did, so I was the instant owner of two FWs. One of them was made in late
1950, and I haven't used it much (even though it is an excellent
machine) --
the 1937 FW has been my workhorse for more than a year, mainly because
it's
sitting out most of the time! I also have a white (barely celery) FW, a
freearm 222 FW, a tan FW, and a candidate for painting from 1957. I think
that's all of them but there may be one more I'm forgetting about.

Dragonfly

"Bonnie" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I was wondering how many Featherweight
owners are there in this group?
I have just made the winning bid on one
on EBay and I'm very eager to get my
hands on the machine!
--
Bonnie
NJ

Hi Paula:

You don't have to worry about them being made in the US, just that
they have a 110 volt motor. They did make some in Scotland with that
kind of motor.

My advice to you is to watch the Featherweight auctions for about two
weeks. Don't worry about the supply running out, it seems to endless.
Then make up your mind what you want in a machine. Do you want one
that sews nicely but isn't exactly a beauty, or do you want one that
is all black and shiny and has all the gold trim intact?

I have been watching the Featherweight auctions for almost two months
now and I can't tell you why one goes for $200 and another goes for
$500. I do notice, though, that the more professionally a
Featherweight is presented in pictures and presentation, the more it
will sell for. I saw a really nice Featherweight go for $220 the
other day. It was just as nice as the one that went for $400.

Another thing to keep in mind. You might want to concentrate on
auctions that end up mid-day on a week day. There will be a lot less
bidders!

And the final consideration. Don't bid on the auction until the last
10-20 seconds (depending on if it is a weekend or not). If you start
bidding, you will just drive up the price of the machine.

Figure out what you want to pay for a machine, find the one you want
and make a last minute bid. If you don't get that one, I guarantee
another just as nice will be around the next corner.

Mardi

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:04:12 -0500, "aluap" wrote:

Hi Everyone!

I really want to bid on a Featherweight on Ebay, but there are so many, and
I'm sooo confused about which one to bid on. I know I want one made in the
U.S. so I don't have to worry about the converter thing. What's the most
important thing to look for in the info they give? I do look at the
seller's feedback report. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Paula

"Dragonfly" wrote in message
...
I've got several. Ummm, several more than several. You see, it all started
when I won the auction on one FW, and figured someone would come along and
snipe the other FW I was bidding on that closed 20 minutes later. Nobody
did, so I was the instant owner of two FWs. One of them was made in late
1950, and I haven't used it much (even though it is an excellent
machine) --
the 1937 FW has been my workhorse for more than a year, mainly because
it's
sitting out most of the time! I also have a white (barely celery) FW, a
freearm 222 FW, a tan FW, and a candidate for painting from 1957. I think
that's all of them but there may be one more I'm forgetting about.

Dragonfly

"Bonnie" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I was wondering how many Featherweight
owners are there in this group?
I have just made the winning bid on one
on EBay and I'm very eager to get my
hands on the machine!
--
Bonnie
NJ







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