More Spring Coats

Since becoming a parent, I appear to have developed an obsession with dressing my dd’s in matching coats.  They make the best photos!

Allow me to join the chorus of sewing bloggers raving about FabricMart.  They listed this fabric as “silk twill”, which is a great lining fabric.  It was also listed as 80″ wide, which I was certain was a mistake.  When the fabric arrived, it was, indeed, 80″ wide.  And it is a necktie silk!  It’s far too thick to use as a lining, but it’s just a gorgeous fabric.  Both of my dd’s jumped on it and demanded that I make something for them with it.  The lining is a silk from FabricMart, as well.  I washed them in the machine together, and the blue bled onto the yellow, toning down the color a bit.

The pattern I used is from a recent Burdastyle.  The pattern includes a regular belt, like in an adult trench coat, but with my kids, that would be just asking for trouble.  I put elastic in the back of the coat, and attached the belt at the sides.  I slashed-and-spread the back pattern piece from hem to top in several places so the skirt would be a bit fuller.

Larger coat, front

Smaller coat, front.  They each picked their own buttons.

Larger coat, back

Smaller coat, back

Larger coat inside.  I underlined the blue silk with the yellow silk, and used french seams.  I’m on a french seam kick lately.

Smaller coat inside.

The following is a gallery of my greatest matching jacket hits through the years:

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