Sorry for the covered face but I took this picture at 6:30 in the morning and it was not pretty. However, the picture showcases my new winter coat really well so....
The pale blue is a wool poly blend I got from Fabric Mart in one of their many wool sales. It was $10.50 a yard and I ended up with three yards. The pink wool is a strip of wool I got from Tricot Cafe which is down the street from where I live. I think I paid $10 for the entire strip but I don't remember. I bought this all last year when I thought I'd make the new coat.
I last made a winter coat back in 2013. I've been wanting a new one for the past couple of years but decided, this year, I would really get to work on it. :-)
The pattern:
Simplicity 8298 from 1977. I bought the pattern along with a bunch of others from a lady in Idaho. My copy is a women's size 14 so I didn't have to play with the size on it much. Going from a jacket to a winter coat that would need to accommodate bulky sweaters means that I want the jacket pattern a bit on the big side.
Some edits I did:
The original jacket is unlined so I had to create a lining pattern. Really, most of it was just cutting one of the fashion fabric and one out of the lining but the front "flap" had a facing. So I traced the front pattern piece on to some Christmas wrapping paper that I don't like anymore and then I traced the facing on top of that. The piece that was "left", I added a 1/2" seam allowance and cut that out as the front lining piece.
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| The various wrapping paper lining pieces and the sleeve lining |
I also lengthened the jacket pattern by about 3" so it would be more of a winter coat. Since I wanted a hint of pink in the coat, the side front already came in three pieces - I just added the pink wool by cutting out the middle side front from it. I also took the rest of the wool to make a belt that ends in a big ole butt bow in the back. Because.
Construction:
Overall, the construction was fairly basic. Side front to front. Side back to back. Ect. I did add hem lace to the inside of the coat because I didn't want the flannel backed poly satin to unravel like the hellish material it can be. I also didn't want to double roll it so...hem tape it is!
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| Close up of the hem tape |
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| Overall lining of the coat |
