anorak

I wanted to post a review of the popular Morgedal anorak. I've been wearing mine for about 18 months now and strangely, although it's a very imperfect garment in many ways, I keep coming back to it. GOOD POINTS Shape It's longish, reaching mid thigh on me (6'1" wearing an XL), and long enough...

EDIT: I should also say that these anoraks are known for having tight armpits. If you make one according to this pattern, it will probably have tight armpits. This post accompanies review and <mod thread in the works>. Product: Swedish surplus anorak (AKA snow smock, snow parka, vindblus...

Sources, more or less in order:Rick Marchand's anoraks (pattern) edispilf27's anorak (pattern) edispilf27's second anorak Canoeguy's anorak Tycho's anorak MikeS' anorak Topknot's blanket coat Kevin's (ECW) hooded wool blanket shirt Sgt. Mac's anorak Sgt. Mac's wool shirt The "Mastino"...

Hello all... After making the first anorak, it seemed prudent to make a few improvements and fine tune everything. Hopefully this won't go past ver. 10 ;) Materials included one of those super smelly italian surplus blankies, chicago screws, gutterman HD silk thread (130 yds+!)...

Hey everyone.. long time gone. Hope everyone is happy now that winter is here. Posted a thread over at another forum, and thought this might be of interest to some of the folks here: This took me quite a while to get all the material combinations right, but it turned out spot on for those...