Finished: Quilted Rainbow Coat
My quilted coat is finished, as you can gather from the title as well as the gratuitous number of photos in this post. Am quite pleased with self over the whole thing, as you can probably also see. To be fair, the project was a bit of a gamble that I wasn’t sure initially would pan out, seeing as the pattern pieces were self drafted and untested in any real way prior to this coat, so I’m pleasantly surprised at how well it fits.
The outer is entirely made with scraps from previous projects or solid cotton remnants I already had in my stash. I also used a union chambray that was gifted to me from Robert Kaufman (who manufactures it), so I didn’t purchase any new fabric for this coat, though I did have to buy some quilt batting for the middle layer.
As far as the fit, if I were to do it over, I might have made it a little less oversized, and as I’m thinking I might make another one (and I might — Clementine insists she wants one), I might buy a different coat pattern instead.
I’ve been wearing it almost every day either over a tank top as my actual outfit, or layered over other sweaters or shirts as an extra coat/jacket layer. I get lots of compliments on it which really satisfies my inner Enneagram 3. It’s perfect for coolish fall weather, for those days that start out chilly and then turn to warm afternoons. I like to wear it with the cuffs folded over, which also serves to show off the hand quilting that I did with white sashiko thread. I did end up adding magnetic snaps, which are nice, and initially I thought I would sew some vintage buttons to the outside of the placket (for a faux button placket), but after wearing this coat in bed for three straight days while I had COVID last month, I decided that buttons would interfere with this coat’s ability to be #secretpajamas.
You can read more about my process for making this coat, from concept to in-progress photos, in this post: Notes on my quilted coat
I’ll end with a few closeup photos so you can see some of the hand-stitching detail:
