I can't quite believe it has taken me until halfway through the year to break out my overlocker and play with the variegated threads!
Today is a quickie blog post to go with a quickie project
I wanted to make a birthday gift for a friend and thought that a bog coat would fit the bill quite nicely. I wear mine all the time and it's relatively easy to cut, size and fit. The pattern is somewhere between low-waste and no-waste depending on how you style it and it is pretty forgiving if you use the right fabric. I have used sweatshirting for both my versions to date. I think this would also work well in a fleece, terry, chunky knit, mock cable ponte roma, hachi t-shirt knit etc. The Threads instructions suggest fancier and more elegant fabrics but I probably prefer the fluffy loungewear vibe.
All the stitching was done using the variegated blue and white thread cones from William Gee.
I used my overlocker for a lot of flatlocking detail and have overlocked all the seams. The patch pockets have a flatlocked opening but are otherwise zig-zagged using my regular machine with the same thread.
This took an afternoon to pull together and I think it's a hit!
K
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