I've decided to sell one of my Featherweights, so I'm putting it here first for folks to have a think about - I know a couple of people said they'd really like one.

This one is a 221K (a standard Featherweight, not the one with the free-arm) black, 1956 with "Prism" decals in really nice condition.
It has a set of bobbins, all it's feet, a LED bulb and it's black case, and it works nicely; I have pieced a quilt top on it 

I'd really like it to go to someone who wants one, so I am open for an offer rather than setting a silly price and putting people off. If you've been yearning for one, please get in touch, I'm not trying to make oodles on this, just to let one go (I do have others)

It is possible apparently to pack these for transit - the Featherweight Shop has a tutorial on how to do it - but knowing how carriers handle things these days I would really rather it was collected. (Somerset) We would happily drive 50 miles or so in your direction to help, but then obviously you wouldn't be able to test it wherever we met up.

Anyway, please let me know if you'd like it   

Leila

ETA - for anyone who doesn't know (but then if you don't know, you probably don't want one LOL) Featherweights were small, aluminum-bodied  electric striaght stitch machines. Fairly easy to keep working despite being over 50 years old, and keenly sought-after by quilters as they are nice to take to classes. There is a super website and business in USA with oodles of info and pictures at:

https://singer-featherweight.com/

I really recommend them for a learning resource.

Some UK supplies can be found here:

https://www.the-littlest-thistle.com/2018/11/announcing-the-uk-featherweight-supply-shop.html

A somewhat battered old lady of a machine, but has new capacitors (from the Bernina Doctor and fitted for me by OH) and is cleaned and oiled.
I will be sewing every pattern from the original book to make sure all the cams work well, but it's good so far 
Has 8 feet, 10 bobbins, the darning ring and the extension table.
Original red case, red accessories box (broken catch) and all leads and foot.

** Does not have the manual, or the knee lift bar, although it would take one and they can still be purchased new.

Thought I'd let folks know here before I put it up online next week, if anyone is interested in snagging one.
Price on eBay dropped to £100 - keen to make some space.

I don't have photographs yet, but let me know if you want to see it.
Would need to be collected from the Somerset area, although I'll drive an hour or so in any direction if that helps.

I am looking at top patterns   
Before my brain starts to drip out of my ear, I'd thought I'd put it out here too . .

So, a pattern for woven not stretch.
Long sleeved, but I do like slim fitting at the bottom half of my arms.
An interesting/nice neck shape - where have all the sweetheart necklines gone?
Not frilly - I am so not a frilly person LOL

Anyone got any favourites that might fit this bill that they'd like to share?

Current posibilites (loooking on Sew Essentials) include
https://www.sewessential.co.uk/misses-square-seam-tunics-vogue-pattern-9225
https://www.sewessential.co.uk/misses-loose-fitting-pullover-tops-butterick-pattern-6486
https://www.sewessential.co.uk/misses-tops-simplicity-pattern-9452 (might be too full in the sleeve)

I don't as yet have enough patterns to mix and match different elements.

Thanks

Having got over knitting too many socks for presents and a cowl knitted in a yarn I truly hated, I'm back on an even keel and knitting for my husband.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/going-stag

I knitted jumpers for him when were fist together - so several decades - and now he tells me that the burgundy red Aran was never his colour - he wore it twice maybe! So that is unraveled to become an Aran cardigan for me, and he is getting the 'Goingstag' jumper in denim blue - well "Mineral" by Rowan to be more precise.

He is very tall, so I'm adding more length in the body, and he likes his jumper with lots of room, so wider in the body. This confuses the arm length, because the armpits aren't where you'd expect them to be - but I'll sort that as we go 

I think I have more wool 'stashed' than I've ever had, what with some sock skeins I can't face right now, and  whole cardigans-worth of burgundy wound into balls, but I hope it will all get used and I won't buy anything more until I'm done.

Enjoy whatever your knitting
Leila 

Today I am pinning lots of HST and some star blocks up onto the 'design wall' (read a sheet taped to the cupboard doors).
It a quilt from the book  "Scrap Quilt Sensation" by Katherine Guerrier and I was trying to stretch myself with triangles - not done those before.
Remembering what had been said about contrast I made sure to make my darks dark and my lights light.
And it was supposed to BE a scrap quilt, and I did use up lots of bits from my previous few quilts, but  . . . I realise now I see it on the wall that I don't like the effect of 'scrap' 

Why I thought I would - being such a fussy person I don't know LOL But I really am not enjoying the vision as it unfolds. Partly the fussiness of all the different fabrics, and possibly the lights being too light for the effect I was after.

I'm thinking, looking at it so far, that it might be improved somewhat by a wide dark border, to draw it all a bit more together, but apart from that I guess I'm just going to have to out up with it and chalk it up to the learning process.
Has anyone else made similar earth-shattering discoveries - especially when it's a bit late to do anything about it?

And how DO you "get the picture" of what the quilt is going to look like in your head before the point of having sewn all the blocks? I think I may be a bit lacking in the visual imagination department, but because my colour choices were so different from hers I was honestly astonished at how it came out 

Just went upstairs to check the book title, and the quilt looks much better in the dark 

Pair of good quality used wooden carders.
No brand mark. 8" wide paddles.

£15 plus P&P
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Here's a happy thing - a lot of acrylic double knit, gifted to me via freecycle 
What a choice of colours! Now - what should I knit with it?
(There was mre than I thought LOL)

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I bought an old sewing tin - because I wanted the tin really - and it contained all the usual stuff. Dirty buttons, halves of poppers, rusty pins and needles and some old flat curtain rings.

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Now what do you suppose someone did with this? Two fine crochet hooks, badly soldered together, one bent at an angle that reminds me of dentists tools! As it was still in the sewing tin I presume it was for some textile craft, but I've no idea what, and nothing else in the tin gives any indication.

Suggestions welcome