Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Emmitt's civil war sacque coat

My blogging friend named Amy (A Day in 1862) whose link is over on the right has a pattern for an infant sacque coat on her blog that I have been wanting to make Emmitt. Since we have a little Utah Civil War Association get together this weekend and it is supposed to be chilly and windy, I made him a coat last night.
The above picture is the outside of the coat cut out and pinned. It is 100% olive greenish wool suiting my friend Jen bought as a remnant at my insistence. She gave it to me about a month ago when she was cleaning out our sewing closet! Thanks Jen!

The fabric I used as the lining is a hideously beautiful mustard yellow cotton print. I say hideously beautiful because it is just that - such an ugly color, but it is one of the very first civil war era reproduction fabrics I purchased so it is sentimental to me, and that makes it beautiful. I have tried to use it in all of the civil war quilts and projects I put together, but it never really quite works because it is such a wild color, so I figured a lining of a coat would be a good home for it.
Sorry about the bad pictures. The first 2 were taken last night in the dark with the flash, and the one below was taken this morning with real light.

I think it turned out pretty stinking cute. We will see how it works on Saturday and just how cute my little Emmitt looks in it! I think it actually took me longer to draft the pattern and cut out the fabric than it did for me to sew it up! Thanks Amy in Texas!

5 comments:

Amy said...

Yay! I can't wait to see how it looks on Emmit!

Anonymous said...

I had a professor in college that believed in wild linings for coats. You would make her proud! It turned out great. Debbie

Mom said...

It looks awesome. You will have to take a pic of him wearing the coat, and post it for us.

Tori said...

The line that just kills me is "I made him a coat last night"
Really??
I don't think I could put together a coat, even a little boy coat in a night let alone a week.
You truly amaze me!!!

Jenn said...

Wow, after all that has been going on in your life I thought things wouldn't be the same with you right now BUT it sounds like nothing has changed-- coats in a night, I think a while ago you did a quilt during a nap(or something like that). You seriously are Superwoman Rach! Haven't heard how the recovery is going-- hope he's doing really well and I hope you're not both going crazy with him home 24/7-- That's a tough pill to swallow for a working man, and a busy housemaker!

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