{"id":725,"date":"2013-01-20T21:34:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T05:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2013-02-10T19:53:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T03:53:54","slug":"featherweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/featherweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Featherweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/featherweight\/dsc_0278\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-726\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-726\" alt=\"DSC_0278\" src=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0278-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0278-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0278-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0278-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My husband surprised me tonight with an early Valentine&#8217;s gift&#8211;this Singer Featherweight 221-1.<\/p>\n<p>She is still unnamed although we know she was born November 7, 1949 in the Clydebank, Scotland factory of Kilbowie with serial number EF563501.\u00a0 She is missing her bobbin case so she will not be pressed into service until I am able to locate and purchase one.<\/p>\n<p>I have been on the hunt for a Featherweight for some time now.\u00a0 I recently lost out on one on an e-Bay auction and then lost out on a white model because someone got to the seller before I could.\u00a0 I was beginning to think I was never going to lay my hands on one of these precious machines.\u00a0 That is until, tonight.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/featherweight\/dsc_0283\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-733\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-733\" alt=\"DSC_0283\" src=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0283-222x300.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0283-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0283-760x1024.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT (Feb 9, 2013):<\/strong>\u00a0 My Featherweight now has a name!\u00a0 My husband and I have named my Featherweight, Charlotte&#8211;a Scottish girl&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband surprised me tonight with an early Valentine&#8217;s gift&#8211;this Singer Featherweight 221-1. She is still unnamed although we know she was born November 7, 1949 in the Clydebank, Scotland factory of Kilbowie with serial number EF563501.\u00a0 She is missing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/featherweight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}