I received a coat for Christmas. There is some assembly required. All right, I admit it: my gift is five yards of coat-weight wool and eight of lining fabric. But it's exactly what I hoped I'd get. Now I just need to decide what kind of coat to make, and make it. Well, I do need interfacing and buttons and thread and things, but all that is less important and easier to come by than the beautiful fabric my aunts gave me.
To that end, I've been scouring the internet for inspiration and came across this blog: Making My Tennant Coat. It's the blog of a guy who's made a reproduction of the coat worn by David Tennant as Doctor Who. He seems to have gotten everything exactly right, every detail the same as the original, even the fabric is (probably) the same fabric used for the costume. Perhaps the coolest thing about him is that he's using a sewing machine made in 1903. 1903! He's using an antique!
He also has other blogs in the same vein, about his progress on other Doctor Who costumes. They are linked in his sidebar. Mostly those are less interesting to me, but the Tennant Suit blog is probably going to inspire me to make a suit (which I've been half intending to do for a while), and to learn how to draft my own patterns. It's daunting, but if a guy with a 106-year-old sewing machine can do it, by golly, so can I.
I doubt I'll replicate any specific coat with this level of accuracy for my coat, but rather draw inspiration from various disparate sources, only one of which will be the Tenth Doctor. This guy's dedication just kind of blew me away, so I thought I'd share.
