I’ve made a new coat, and I really love it! I’ve been seeing some oversized, over-long coats here and there, not in the flesh I mean since where I live we really do lag behind just a leetle bit fashion-wise, particularly when it comes to something as Perth-inappropriate as a coat. No, I mean I’ve seen them mostly in Vogue magazine or Pinterest, and had a fancy for one myself… when I saw this pattern by FibreMood I decided it was time to go for it and make one!
I used this beautiful tobacco silk/wool fabric with a recurring, tiny gold spot; so tiny it sadly doesn’t show up in my full-length pictures… but look how pretty and delicate it is 🙂
Hehe, I’ve had this gorgeous stuff in my stash since late 2010/early 2011, when I bought it in Tokyo… this was the first time I’d met Yoshimi and Novita in Japan, and they took Cassie and me out fabric shopping. It was such fun! and this lovely piece of fabric was one of my spoils of that trip. I posted about it here… and as you can see, I finally made the choice as to which side I should use… obviously the wrong side finally held sway. It was hard though, I was honestly still dithering right up until the very first cut!
wrong side is at the top, right side is below…
This is all the fabric I bought on that trip… and I’ve used all but one piece now; the deep green wool at the top of the picture. I really should use that up now!
below; I still carry that bag regularly, and wear that red scarf…though I gave that white coat to my daughter-in-law Kelly a few years ago when we last took the family to Japan 🙂
Woops got a bit distracted down memory lane there! anyway, so the pattern I used for my new coat is the new FibreMood Carmen pattern, and it’s a really nice one… it’s big and roomy, has very deep side seam pockets, a chic notched collar and closes with a minimal tie. No buttonholes, yay!
The coat is designed to be fully lined with a bagged lining, that turns out through a gap in the sleeve seam. Now, patterns rarely specify this, but in my opinion they should; my one recommendation for doing this is to make sure that you can fit your fist through the hole. Your job will be so much easier!
My lining fabric is also from deep stash, it’s a metallic gold/bronze taffeta that I bought years ago on special from Fabulous Fabrics. You can probably see in my lining photo that it has water stains all down the centre, which is why it was on super special, and also why it took me a long time to use it, probably. It’s ok, at least I’ve used it now! and I actually love it. I really think the metallic-ness of it beautifully highlights the gold flecks on the shell fabric.
I added a hanging loop between the collar and the back neck facing; because I’ve always found this to be a really handy thing.
Not sewing related of course, but chocolate related, and who can resist a bit of chocolate-related content, hmmm? No need to answer that, I know it’s purely rhetorical… anyway, I made this chocolate brownie cheesecake recently, using this recipe by the Cooking Tree, and this is to remind myself how utterly divine it was; and that I MUST MAKE IT AGAIN!!!!
