There was a nationwide row-by-row challenge in 2015. I wasn’t going to get to a lot of shops around the country, but I did see this one from a local shop (The Christmas Goose) in Las Vegas. These little sewing machines were so cute, and they reminded me of the machine given me by my late mother-in-law, so I decided to make this row as a stand-alone quilt to hang above the closet in my sewing room. I prequilted the fabric with a cross-hatch pattern — unfortunately getting some puckers in the process, but that’s life. Once that was done, I used a blanket stitch to machine appliqué all of the major motifs, adding details with decorative machine stitches. I also scanned and printed a Featherweight logo onto fabric for one of the machines and used a “tweaked” version of the original birds given me by my friend Phyl. The quilt measures 35.5″ x 8.75″ and was finished in August, 2015.
