Traveling with a Singer featherweight

When I found out my husband's grandma had a singer featherweight, I asked to borrow it as we were traveling for thanksgiving and flying.  I was told yes.  But I knew I didn't want to travel with it in it's black case. 

Well the featherweight fits perfectly into my Vera Bradley Miller bag!!

So I open the bag up all the way, and I put a quilt inside it.  Usually the first time I put the quilt around the machine and then slide it into the bag.

Here you can see how snug the machine fits into the bag.  The best part is, there are pockets, which leaves me room for putting things like bobbins, thread, scissors, pins, etc.

And then it zips up all nice.  And it has nice long (padded) straps so I can easily put it on my shoulder or on top of a suitcase to travel with it.

A few tips for traveling with it (through an airport).  Take it out of the bag when going through security and put the machine in a bin by itself.  Now there have been sometimes they don't care when it's in the bag, but there are sometimes they do.  So it's just easier to put it in the bin beforehand.

Expect to have people ask you about it! I always have good conversations with TSA employees about the machine, they usually reminiscing about a machine someone in their family had.

I have not actually used this to sew at a gate (usually electric plugs are hard to come by) but it would be a possibility.  But once I get to my destination she usually comes out of the bag and is set up.

I don't just use this for air travel, it's handy when I am doing my craft fairs, or sewing nights, because it's easy to take a long.  

If you have any questions about traveling with a (singer featherweight) sewing machine please let me know and I will do my best to tell you my experiences!

Hawaii

My husband had to go to Hawaii for work.  So of course I took the opportunity to go down and visit him!
 

He found a fabric store! So I had to get some fabric!! 

Look at all those rolls of fabric!! 60 yards on one of those!! So much more than the 8 yards on bolts here on the mainland.

They also had some on bolts.  It was such a cool store, I wanted to buy SO much fabric.  But I managed to control myself.

Christine, my quilting buddy and I decided to buy some of the same fabrics.  And we are going to make it like a challenge quilt, we can add 1 yard of fabric, and then we will see what the quilt turns out like! We want to have them done by Thanksgiving.

I have an idea of what I would like to do for this quilt.  But you will have to wait to see it :)

I want to make a quilt with these, we will see the design I come up with.

And this one is for hubby & I  have NO clue what design I will do, but I should have enough for a full quilt!