Wool blanket anorak

[MickeS]

Hello all, my first post here and I start of with something home made

Just wanted to show my recently finished wool blanket anorak, inspired by these threads and youtube clips, amongst others;
http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8806
http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8771
http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8253
http://www.bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3032
http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7507
http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6987
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50491
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52899
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51677
http://www.youtube.com/user/seanmulh.../7/tfMMej66VXY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zbbe...eature=related

I wanted a heavy, no frills anorak with a tight hood, kinda like the inuits and evenks make theirs. No zippers, no pockets, no draw cords, nothing extra – just a plain anorak.

The pattern;

I’m 178 cm tall, 85 kg heavy, with a 112 cm chest and 174 cm between my wrists with arms extended. The pattern allows me to wear several layers underneath and it reaches my middle thighs at the front and almost down to my knees at the back,

The blanket is from;
http://www.militart.se/product.html?product_id=90&category_id=19

Heavy, thick and ca 2100x1530 mm.

I zig-saged all edges and double or triple stitched all seams. It took ca 5 hours (and 2 broken needles and a lot of cursing) to complete it on my mother-in-law’s old Elna sewing machine. The machine coped well with 2 layers but when it came to 3 or 4 layers I had to hand stitch those short parts.

The body and arms consists of three pieces, one main body/arm piece and two arm extension pieces. These extension pieces I made because the blanket is to narrow for my body and arm lenghts.

The hood I made quite tight, out of three parts, one middle strip 120 times ca 600 mm and two sides. No drawstring.

The cut fabric with sewn on arm extensions and the finished hood.

Inside of hood and arms. Flattened seams for less bulk.

The finished anorak.

The hood down.

The hood up.

The hood is so tight that when I push it back a little it will hug my face all around and protect the ears and such and give very good peripheral vision.

And finally with a belt and my favourite winter gloves.

Hope you like it!

PS. Next projects are a saami inpired wide belt and a cotton outer wind anorak.

 

[maddave]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

What a fantastic 1st post !! You made a real good job of the blanket coat and it's great that you can share your pattern for others who may wish to try

 

[TeeDee]

Great 1st post!! Welcome and Nice work.

 

[tytek]

Nice one - now where was that blanket and the scissors???

 

[Survivalmike]

great stuff dude........

I want something like that too......
Hope I can make my own such a nice coat/shirt.
U have already inspired me

thx and
greetings from Austria
Mike

 

[groundhog]

What a really nice bit of work thanks for sharing it with us.

 

[Rob_Beek]

good stuff, gonna do one myself soon. And welcome.

 

[stooboy]

indeed great first post, very informative with the other links to, and inspiring i like the design as well.

 

[auscam]

I like the gloves too! What sort of boots are you wearing in the pics? I can see they're a 'ski-march' type, but what mfr.?

 

[pwb]

Great work and thanks for all the extra info.
I agree that the pattern will be really handy .

Cheers,
pete.

 

[MickeS]

Thanks all. It was very fun to sew this one, even if me and the sewing machine aren't fully compatible As long as the machine can cope with the thick fabric it's very straightforward and simple to sew one like this.
I 've spent many a hour googling and lurking re wool coats/jackets/anoraks so I thought it would be appropriate to link to the most useful ones I've found.

Give it a go, guys, get out the blanket and sewing kit and remember to post pics when your'e done

The boots are low leather Garmont ski boots for 75mm Nordic Norm ski bindings, I've had these for 20 years and they are very comfortable, albeit a bit heavy. Good for skiing down to -30 - -35Celsius with appropriate woolen socks.
The gaiters are DPM british GTX army surplus. They don't breathe at all when it's cold so I'll make some new cold weather ones - in wool of course.

 

[Zingmo]

Hi
Is that a snow-covered teepee in the background?
Z

 

[MickeS]

Hi
Is that a snow-covered teepee in the background?
Z

Yes. It's my daughters's play-laavu/kåta.