The Finished Corduroy Coat

I was so grateful for a beautiful covering of snow last week, not only to cover up the dead grass and mud (finally, it feels like January!) but also to serve as a lovely backdrop to photos of my second Sew Weekly challenge success.

This blue corduroy ($5) coat has six buttons (five functioning ones in front and one decorative one on the back yoke) and fit the buttonhole technique challenge nicely.

I used my automatic buttonholer rather than doing bound buttonholes, which would have looked nice but taken much longer.

I lined the coat with the batik ($0) I dyed earlier this month.

As far as I can see, the only good thing about our warmer temperatures (until the last few days, that is) has been that this is a very comfortable coat to wear in the 30-50 degree range.

The thing that makes me extra proud of this coat is the fact that I lost (and still have not found) the second sheet of directions (i.e., most of them, including all the stuff I was not 100% sure about how to execute) but I managed to finish it without them. Kudos to me. See more information about the project on The Sew Weekly.