Blanket Kilt Jacket

[Southern Breeze]

Don't panic! I'll start posting the step by step progress ASAP. I'm working long hours on several landscape jobs plus repairing irrigation systems other contractors have screwed up installing gas, phone, cable, power lines and anything else that goes underground.

[Zardoz]

I'm not much of a DIYer when it comes to clothing, but I have done something along these lines! I felt the need for a warm kilt jacket that would fit in at ren faires.
I got a pullover style blanket coat from Jas Townsen , http://jas-townsend.com/product_info...roducts_id=221 and cut it using another kilt jacket as a pattern. I had a friend machine sew the hem along the placket and the button holes, all the other edges are unfinished. The sleeves were plenty long, so I turned up and cut the cuffs gauntlet style and hand sewed them down. I also added some faux pocket flaps cut from the excess material, a few fake horn buttons and had a nice warm jacket that came in handy at the chilly Texas Ren Fest last week;

That's my friend Sandy, who unlike me, has mad sewing skills and makes all her fair grab from scatch.