In the early 2000s, there was an odd fabric outlet store that Mom took me to a few times. It had a small front room with bolts of cottons, a smaller area with a selection of hot sauces, a medium back room with mill ends--mostly upholstery weight from the area office furniture factories--sold by the yard, and a large middle room with tables stacked chaotically with mill ends and offcuts of all sizes of the upholstery fabric, as well as odds and ends of other fabrics, all sold by the pound. You can probably guess how much fun I had, digging through everything for ~treasure~
You can probably also guess--correctly--that I still have a lot of those fabrics in my stash. I decided to finally use the big piece of weirdly supple short pile kelly green fake fur to make the coat I'd always wanted to make from it.
There was a slight problem, in that I had, a few years ago, decided that I was probably never going to make that coat, so I then used some of it to make two Minecraft Creeper pillows (one for the kiddo and one for some friends.) That meant that my yardage was short for the view I wanted to make of McCall's 9634 from 1998
(does the shape look familiar? This is the pattern that the doll coat pattern I shared last year was based on--I'd been making doll coats based on this pattern since the pattern was new, but it was only for this project that I finally cut the tissue...)
I wanted to make view B, but there was only enough for--with some finagling--view D. It worked out OK, though, because I am not proportioned like a fashion illustration, so it ended up longer than the illustration makes it seem
Green!
