Fabrics inspire me! The colors, textures, and patterns are worked into the design of each coat. I'm trying to get better at documenting the process of making a coat, going from this...
To this...
To this!
*** My friend Pat is wearing a coat I made from a 1940's quilt, which was made by her mother-in-law. Quilts like this are often lost in history, because they end up in a bag in someone's closet, and rarely ever seen again.
Here is a more personal example, where I made my parents 1956 wedding quilt into a coat - which I kept:
