Another capote finished up

My wife picked out the blanket for her capote at an indoor rendezvous back in Februrary.
Rain all this last weekend so I got down to it and made up her capote. She picked out the decorations for the back of the hood.
She ended up wearing it most of Sunday afternoon after I finished it up.

Nice work

Turned out very nice.

very nice!

Oshkosh Trade Fair?

from Blackie?

Muskrat, yes, Oshkosh.

Not sure of the trader's name. As you walk in the hall, he was to the left in the back corner. Whole table full of old wool blankets.

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Very Nice!

Will have to show my wife these pictures bet she will want one...Where do find patterns for things like that?

Mac

I drafted this pattern my self. Most of the commercial capote patterns are for very late 19th century styles.

This is a late 18th century style, think 1790-1800.

I modified a man's waistcoat pattern from JP Ryan patterns, based upon original capotes from that time period and paintings from the time.

The front of the capote overlaps almost armpit to armpit, so the chest has 2 layers of wool over it. Very warm.

Here's the pattern laid out on the blanket, before cutting.

Great job Mr Snow and she has the poses down pat, great pics!

Nice, good job!

She does like putting on a show. Even when its 40 degrees and blowing misty rain at 30mph.

That looks great, I bet that is nice and warm. I would like to make one for me with Velcro fasteners. Then sew on some ties just for show.

Good Job!!!

Love the smile in the last pic!
mt

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oqr-_CBFw10

[quote=martentrapper]Love the smile in the last pic!
mt

There's an evil streak in there....

Keeps me on my toes.

Good job man

Waiting for the mittens from the left-overs of that blanket to appear.

Very good job.

What are some of the prices of wool blankets going for down there.?
VG and maybe some with slight stains? HBC blanket 4 point;
are there any Eaton's ones there?

I have no idea what HBC blankets are going for.
This was on off brand, made in Ohio blanket. About 4 point size, we got it for $30.

I am definitely not knowledgeable about the blanket market.

As to mittens, she knits a lot and has several pairs of knitted, then fulled mittens that she loves.

Very nice...looks great !

Looks like she's having fund modeling it too!

Really love seeing couples like this.

K snow thanks for your reply, looks like they ADD a 1 to the up in prices up here.
The wife took a weekend work shop on making them.

Blanket labels =google read;are the most important, but beware of recent sewing of them in on the blanket

Unfortunately, any time there is money to be made, there will be fakes and scams.

A label on a blanket automatically makes it later than the time period I really try to focus on.

For capotes, I will often compare the price of a blanket to good wood duffel material. Oftentimes, the blanket is a better deal "per yard" than material.