Wednesday, March 02, 2016

A Hooded Jersey Coat: McCalls M6442


The pattern makes a hooded coat with a full circle skirt: too much skirt. I cut it down to about a half-circle, and that's plenty. It has pockets in the side seams, a hood, and a self-belt. I added crocheted belt loops and also a snap at the top of the coat, for coziness.


I was out of fabric so I lined the hood with a little bit of lightweight jersey in the "same" color--but you know dye lots. It's not quite a match, and I like it that way.


All the edges are finished using jersey strips sewn down with a rosebud stitch. Yes, it took forever.

There are some good tips for converting a standard pattern to use with jersey in Natalie Chanin's fourth book Alabama Studio Sewing Patterns.

2 comments:

Lisa said...

It looked like dark gray on my tablet, but here it seems blue. Either way, it's very nice - the hood looks is nice and roomy-looking.

Lisateresa

I'm presently working on trying to copy a knit dress I saw on Pinterest, with some AC knit fabric. It's an interesting exercise! 8-)

Lisa Beth W. said...

Now that is CUTE! Are you going to make one for the shop?

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