Documenting the making of the Lagan coat in a fuschia Harris Tweed…

I absolutely love this Adele, cannot wait to see the progress. That fabric is so beautiful, will it be lined?

I have very very carefully cut out the main fabric taking care to match the horizontal lines across the fabric pieces 🤞🏼after the advice from the ladies on the social, with some "help" from Hamish 🐈 who was fascinated with this fabric.

I don't need the lining apart from the pocket until the main fabric is sewn together so I'm going to sew up the main fabric before I cut out the lining.

Let the sewing commence... I've got the bodice all sewn up and I'm really pleased with how well I've managed to match the horizontal lines on the fabric. I have realised that I have sewn the collar on the wrong way up so I do need to unpick that and reattach. Other than that so far so good 😊

The skirt is on.
Part of me is a little disappointed that with the back of the coat the fabric pattern is off so the difference in the bodice and the skirt is really obvious. 
However the front left of the coat has matched perfectly (the other side doesn't) completely by accident on the vertical lines. The colour blocks are pretty close across the whole front and the back is okay I think even though a little off.

Sleeves are now on, I had initial sewn them on the wrong way wrong so unpicked and put them on the right way. Sleeve caps are in place so I just need to sew in the shoulder pads which are in the post. And then the lining.

And the lining... all I need now is the shoulder pads to pop in and then I can attach the lining to the main coat and do the button holes. 😊

I've now managed to sew in the shoulder pads and the lining (after unpicking part of it the first time as the collar mysteriously disappeared when turned out 🙄🤦🏽‍♀️), I've top stitched around the outside to keep everything in place. I need to do the same for the cuffs, sew up the gap in the lining and the to attach my self covered buttons. It seems to have really gained shape now the outer and lining are attached as everything has been pulled in. 
And I remembered to sew my labels in, a Harris Tweed one that came with the fabric and I found tartan homemade ones from Little Rosie Cheeks that go very nicely.
I have realised that there is no hanging loop in this coat so I need to have a think 🤔about what to do and potentially unpick enough of the collar to add one before sewing up the gap in the lining.

I promise to get some better quality photos when it's finished outside to show the colour better as these were taken late at night whereas the buttons were day time but the same fabric.

And I am done! One Harris Tweed Itch to Stitch Lagan coat completed 🤩

This has been such a fun challenge. I added a chain hanging loop so I didn't need to unpick the collar to add one and after making a bit of a mess trying to hand sew a button hole realised that I could do a straight line of button hole stitching without using the button hole foot so that made that a lot easier.

Handling the coat to sew the lining in and the button holes was a bit awkward as it's pretty heavy.

I am so pleased with it, the fit is pretty good and I have room for a thicker jumper underneath. I did adjust the length as I'm 4ft 11" and it sits at just above knee length, which is what I wanted. Really pleased with the pattern, there were a couple of head scratching moments but I think that's because I'm fairly new to sewing not the instructions, it looks exactly as I had hoped and very similar to the coats I saw in the Isle of Harris shop when I bought the fabric

I don't think I could hide at all in it, I think I'd be visable from space, its so bright. I love it! And it's been so amazing to have somewhere to share it without being on social media. 🥰