The Flying Corset

25/04/2024

The 401A, 403A, 404A, 401G, 411G, 500A, 503A, 600E, 603E, & 604E, all of which used the same steel gears and direct drive motor.

This is a 401G circa 1951-1956.

So how do you know if your machine is a "slant needle?" Take a look at it from the needle end. If the needle is straight up and down you have a vertical needle machine. If it angles forward then your machine is a slant needle.

04/04/2024

After much work, I have completed my new trench coat! Please visit on instagram

29/02/2024

Hello Everyone! Getting slowly better at making Reels!
In the past few weeks, while waiting to start a new project I have made 1 petticoat, 3 skirts and a pair of trousers for myself.
I have cut and ready 1 trench coat and 1 jumpsuit.
Patterns that have come to the end of the development process and are ready to cut are:
-A red velvet 1890s inspired balloon sleeved blouse
-A contemporary raw yellow silk L/S blouse with a peplum
-A 1950s dress coat circa 1953 in green wool Cashmere summer weight suiting
-A 1940s pair of work overalls to be made up in burnt orange denim and blue that’s almost black.
-1940s silk blouses x2 to be made up in a patterned silk and then a deep red to go with the overalls.

I better get myself moving before the movies make a return!

04/01/2024

Progress on my most recent cable knit sweater! It just happens to match the blanket

02/01/2024

Home in Ireland for a few days for Christmas and New Years! This knitting project is a Arran weight cable knit sweater that has Raglan sleeves. This means that the yoke is knitted straight and the bottom of the sweater is knitted out of the yoke. It is once again using Debbie Bliss yarn. This time I am using Cashmerino Arran. The pattern is called 'Frances' it's digital and available to download from lovecrafts.com

25/12/2023

Completed tailored waistcoat that I made for my Dad! Very pleased with the end result.

21/01/2023

New Cultural review! Books, musicals and film.

Over the past two weeks I have read six books; Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Idol by Louise O’Neil, Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and I reread A Christmas Carol by Cha

26/11/2022

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I was antiquing today in the Oxfordshire town of Wallingford. I was out for the day with my Dad at The Aston Martin Museum Trust. The museum proprietor Dom Walker used to work for Aston Martin! He gave a fabulous talk on the history of the Trust’s collection, punctuated by excellent personal anecd...

09/11/2022

Complete! Debbie Bliss yarn’s ‘Lottie’ sweater in Lillac 11.