Making an Inverness Cape from a Greatcoat

[thescot]

I've got one; one of the warmest coats I've ever worn. I'd leave it just as it is, and make an Inverness out of heavy wool coating or perhaps wool blankets.

Inverness pattern
Inverness 1
Inverness 2
Inverness 3
Inverness 4

I agree wholeheartedly. Leave it alone. Change the buttons if you like. But I wouldn't mess with that. It's beautiful.

On the same note about wool blankets, I should relay my grandmother's tale of her own grandfather from the late unpleasantness:
Appparently, his unit came into ownership of some wool blankets which they thought would make excellent uniforms, so they had some made. And they were gorgeous, or at least, adequate.

But with the first rain, the uniforms allshrank up so badly they couldn't wear them. Ha.

Make sure your blankets are pre-shrunk!