New Bulb for Featherweight

I've had my Featherweight for a few years now and I still love it. I take it to classes and retreats. When I need to get my BERNINA serviced I pull out my Featherweight and sew with it while the BERNINA is serviced. Being without my main machine for a week or so doesn't bother me since I got my Featherweight.

The thing I don't like about my Featherweight is the light bulb. It's dim and gets dang hot. After burning myself for the umpteenth time at the last retreat I commented how I wished someone would come out with an brighter, cooler bulb for these machines. So I started looking around online. Some one has and I finally got around to ordering one last week. It came yesterday.

New bulb on left, old bulb on right

I popped that baby in my machine and voila - I can see and it doesn't get hot!

My Featherweight with the new bulb installed

Oh my! I love it! If you want to order one for yourself, click this link. The link will take you directly to the page on the Stitch All The Things website where you can order yourself a bulb. I have no affiliation with them. I'm just a satisfied customer. I think the price is reasonable for an LED bulb. The customer service was great and the shipping was fast. You do have to submit your order and then wait for him to send you an invoice via PayPal, but it didn't take very long for the invoice to arrive in my inbox.

Summer Camp - Glamp!

I finished my Glamp earlier this week. It was really fun to make and pretty easy.

Here it is.

lit

and

unlit

I chose to just do a simple one - great fabric and some fun trim on the bottom. You might recognize the fabric from the birthday purse I made for my niece. I had to hang it from the ceiling fan for the photos because I don't have a way to hang it yet where I want it. I hope it will hang above my cutting table. I could really use some overhead light above the cutting table!

The son likes it too. He thought it made a nice hat!

Head over to Amanda's at the Quilted Fish to see the other Summer Camp Glamps. And if you are so inclined, please vote for me.

New Light and Tote

After many months of wanting a bendable bright light and reading about how great others said theirs was, I bought one for myself. I have not had a chance to sew with it yet but it is now installed. Wow! What a difference between the regular machine light and this one!

I also took some pictures of the second Pick A Pocket Purse I made with longer handles and inside pockets.

For the longer handles, I cut them 4" by the width of the fabric instead of the 4" by 34 1/2" called for in the pattern.

For the inside pockets, I cut two pieces of the outside pocket fabric 7" by 14". Fold these in half, right sides together, to form a 7" square. Using a 1/4" seam allowance, start at the fold and sew around three sides to the other fold, leaving a 2" hole for turning along one side (doesn't matter which side, just in the middle of a side). Trim the corners and turn it right side out, press. Before you sew the two halves of the bag together attach the pockets on the lining part. I tried to center them on the handles and about 1" down from the top of the bag. I just top-stitched them in place along the two sides and the bottom.