Thought you might like to see what i have made. Just need the weather to get a bit colder so i can wear the wool version. The cord one is the one i mentioned else where, that was supposed to be a quick version using left over fabric.
The pattern goes together beautifully but a word of warning if you decide to make it. The sleeves are very narrow (wish i had read the pattern reviews first), the coat was fine when i first tried it on after putting in the sleeves but only had a t shirt on. When i had slipped the lining in and with a jumper on they were too tight. Dropped the armscye by an inch but didn't have enough fabric to re-cut the under sleeve so i just added a strip. This worked fine as i still had the match on the sleeve/yoke seam.
I made the mistake on the cord jacket of increasing the width of the under sleeve at the seams and as you can see this means the yoke seams do not match (this is what the Grain Line website tells you to do).
If you do make this i would suggest cutting the under arm sleeve pattern up the middle to make it wider.
The pocket on the wool coat should also be higher but again didn't have enough fabric to get a match so dropped them slightly. The pockets on the short version i have made smaller as the pocket looked odd the full size, they dominated the coat. I also put a zipped inside pocket into the lining of each coat.
Over all very pleased with the results but this is a pattern that cannot be rushed, 40 pattern pieces and nearly every piece of fabric is interfaced.
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