The Pure Baby (PB) and I have a new winter coat - to share! Following some great instructions on TheBabyWearer, I was able to alter an Eddie Bauer parka into a babywearing winter coat!
My Eddie Bauer parka, prior to alterations:
The parka is a size "small". I usually wear "extra-small". The pictures show the parka's fit on me pre-babywearing coat.
After measuring/marking with a fabric marker and after attaching layers together with zig-zag stitching:
After cutting out the back panel, leaving the bottom attached:
The side panels:
The side panels were my most difficult part of the project. The original German instructions are no longer available, and I completely had no clue what the TheBabyWearer instructions meant regarding a "curve". In the end, my curve below was very inadequate. I was able to design a curve, with the side panels sewn to the coat flap, by holding out the coat flap and making it into sort of a box (as you will see in my final result, further down).
The side panels attached to the back flap of the parka:
With both top and side panels attached to the back flap of the parka:
The inner top flap with the fleece attached:
The inner top flap fleece sewn into place:
The finished exterior:
The pouch opening:
The finished interior:
The Pure Baby (PB) in our new babyweaing coat:
PB is being worn in our Kanga XT.
We're looking forward to a winter of wintry cold weather and lots of snow!
SOOOOOO much better work than mine was! But i am lookig forward to the colder weather now :)
ReplyDeleteOkay, that is one of the coolest ideas I have ever seen!!! The finished product looks AMAZING!!!!
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