The Willa Wrap Coat Sew Along!

If you're wanting to try your hand at sewing your own Willa Wrap Coat, but are feeling hesitant or overwhelmed at the thought of fitting, sewing and finishing a coat, then you've come to the right place.

This Sew Along holds your hand through all of the steps of sewing your Willa Wrap Coat. It includes detailed posts on fitting & common pattern adjustments, step by step instructions on constructing your coat (with detailed photos and/or video content), as well as additional ideas/suggestions on how you might want to adjust the pattern to suit your personal preferences.

Click the links below to go to each post.

• Fabric & Sewing Tools
  
  
• Useful Coat Sewing Tips - A Confidence boosting post.
  
  
• Let's Talk Construction (AKA You don't have to sew it in the order it's written...)
  
  
• Downloading & Printing your pattern
  
  
• Choosing a Size and making a Toile

Pattern Adjustment Week:

• Full & Narrow Bicep Adjustment
  
  
• Length Adjustments (including above the Bust)
  
  
• FBA/SBA on a Darted Princess Seam (AKA a Dior Dart)
  
  
• Forward & Backward Shoulder Adjustment
  
  
• Broad/Narrow Shoulder Adjustment

• Interfacing all the things (or not)!
  
  
• Assembling Belt + Hang Loops and the Belt
  
  
• Constructing the Outer Front Coat
  
  
• Constructing the Outer Back Coat
  
  
• Assembling the Lining - Front
  
  
• Assembling the Lining - Back
  
  
• Assembling Front and Back Necklines/Shoulders (with video!)
  
  
• Stitching up Side Seams
  
  
• Making and Inserting Set-In Sleeves - and what even is a Sleeve Roll anyway?! (with video!)

Pocket Week:

• Sewing a Patch Pocket
  
  
• Lining a Patch Pocket (with free pattern piece!)
  
  
• Adding In-Seam Pockets (with free pattern piece!)

• Attaching Lining to Outer Coat - Front and Collar
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Inserting Buttonholes & Attaching Buttons
  
  
• How to make a Thread Chain (with video!)
  
  
• Hemming Lined to Sleeves (with video!) + Attaching In-seam Pockets to the Lining
  
  
• Attaching the inside of a Lined Garment (with video!)
  
  
• Finishing Front Bottom Corner on a Lined Coat (with video!)
  
  
• Hemming - Two Ways (with video!)
  
  
• A Finished Willa Wrap Coat and How to Wear it

I hope the Sew Along fills you with the confidence you might need to tackle sewing a fully lined coat. I promise you can do it! Plus, you'll come out of it hopefully having learnt a few new techniques that you'll be able to take with you into your future sewing projects.

You can purchase your Willa Wrap Coat digital pattern here. Let's get sewing!!

xx

J