Inter/inner lining

Peacoats are made of felted wool.....

Ah.. so.

If the batting was wool fiber, it would be toasty warm; if
it was cotton, it wouldn't be as warm as the wool....

Well, that brings me back to my original idea of making felt for the
interlining. I saved enough of the fleese to do this but it is so
tedious, that I gave up on the idea.

The other idea was to use the carded wool rologs or roving. I
attached some of this to the outer fabric using fusable web but I don't
know how this would wear or if it really is practical. Then my wife
came up with the idea of the army blanket.

Thinsulate is a relatively new product. I used it in my children's
coats when they were little. But unless one lives way out, as you
do,
heavy coats aren't needed for everyday wear, as trips to the mall or
to
school are short, and coats aren't needed inside either place....

Ponder standing in the observatory setting up the telescope and camera
on a cold winter night. This can take an hour or more and gets pretty
miserable.

But not to overstate things, I really don't have a feel for all this.

I do know that the wool shirt I made using the same fabric and lined
with an old cotton shirt, is a cozy jacket but would never hack winter
weather so the idea of an interlining seems a given.

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Kate Dicey wrote:

Cut it out like the coat pieces, and sew it together as if it were a
separate garment. Then put it inside the outer fabric and baste it
in
place at strategic points. Lining goes inside that.

I started cuttin this and got hung up on the front. This is a double
breasted coat and I am not sure what to do with the lapels on the
interlining.

The lining pattern does not include them as the edges are sewn to the
edge of the facing.

Is this part of the inter also sandwiched between the facing and the
front?

Also, it was suggested to leave out the seam allownces and butt sew but
I am not sure on how to do this with the sleave.

js

wrote:

Kate Dicey wrote:


Cut it out like the coat pieces, and sew it together as if it were a
separate garment. Then put it inside the outer fabric and baste it

in

place at strategic points. Lining goes inside that.


I started cuttin this and got hung up on the front. This is a double
breasted coat and I am not sure what to do with the lapels on the
interlining.

Cut them off along the fold line, where the revere falls open and flat,
diagonally across the fronts.

The lining pattern does not include them as the edges are sewn to the
edge of the facing.

Ignore the lining pattern for interlining.

Is this part of the inter also sandwiched between the facing and the
front?

You don't need to interline the revers, but in all other areas the
interlining usually goes in between the facing (technically part of the
lining) and the outer cloth.

Also, it was suggested to leave out the seam allownces and butt sew but
I am not sure on how to do this with the sleave.

Sleeves are not usually interlined. if you wish to interline them, the
easiest way to but these seams is do one on the machine and the closing
one that makes it into a tube by hand with a herringbone stitch, just as
it would have been done before the invention of the sewing machine.

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All the comments about weight with the army blanket interlining do sort
of
give me pause but.....

I am trying to make something like a Navy peacoat and my recollection
of the
one from my Coast Guard days is that it was quite thck and heavy. Wish
I
had one to take apart and see what's in it but I can't believe it is
just a
lined wool fabric. Anybody know or have a guess?

They are made of melton wool.

Michelle
Italy