I have another admission to make. I sew. It started a long long time ago… I used to watch my mother sew when I was very young, but a year or so ago the realization that I actually know how to sew hit me. It rekindled with just not wanting to pay $50 for shirts made overseas that didn’t fit, but my newfound stitching bug now has me making more diabolical plans.
I have in my possession four (4) red patent leather pig hides, which is enough to make a rather large coat, one my size. As I live in Michigan, I’ll be insulating it, and of course it will need a proper liner.
The leather is pretty lightweight, the thinsulate is really thick, and the innermost liner is paper thin and slippery. I’m also using some red velvet for some of the facings. This is definitely going to be harder than polyester-cotton work shirts. (Burda pattern 7767 rocks!)
This all adds up to a lot of planning on how to sew the liner to the coat, which seems pretty mysterious to me. Why does it hold together? Why would it fit? How many needles am I going to break doing this? The only way to find out is to do it, but there’s no material I’d bother to use to make a coat that is cheap… so do or die, this is going to have to happen and mistakes may be costly. The leather is slightly more expensive than some Cashmere wool, so one way or another.
