BERNINA Corporate Blog -How to sew a blanket coat for cold winter evenings? They keep you warm while reading, knitting or watching TV. This one has a really simple pattern and it’s really simple to sew. A vintage blanket coat is so trendy!
I found a beautiful blanket (my opinion…) in a charity shop and took it home for a little more than £1. Cheap enough to start an experiment.
Look, this is what I made:
What do you need to sew a blanket coat?
- An old blanket with a nice design
- An open zipper
- Biastape
- Mettler Seralon sewing thread, Mettler Seraflock coverlockthread, Mettler Seralene overlockthread
- stabilizer tape
- Iron on stabilizer
How to start for a blanket coat?
Put a well fitting sweater on the blanket. Check for a symmetrical position on shoulder seams, sleeve cuffs and armpit.
Cut the pattern from the blanket, leaving 1,5 or 2 cm from the outlines. Size depends on what you want to wear under the blanket coat, or the fit of the sweater.
Cut out with 4 magnets 0.5 cm each on the iron scissors. I left a 2 cm space and I will sew with a 1 cm seam allowance.
Lay the cut out pattern piece on the right side of the blanket and cut the other half.
Cut out a neck opening. For the front I cut a width 24 cm and 8 cm high. In the back, I cut a 24 to 3 cm.
Cut the front part open in the center and make rounded corners on top and bottom.
I changed it to a V-shaped neck.
Start to sew the coat.
Iron stabilizer along the sleeve cuffs. I forgot to do so and I think you can see they stretched a little.
Overlock the shoulder seam and the side seam with the BERNINA L 460
Pin the shoulderseams right sides together and sew the seam. If you wish to keep a small seam allowance, you can use Bulky Overlock Foot #12C.
I more like a 1 cm seam allowance and I use open embroidery foot 20.
To make the seam fall flat, I finish it with a coverlock seam. You could use twin needles as well.
This is what the back looks like:
Close side seams and finish in the same way (this is the hardest part of the blanket coat).
Fold over the sleeve cuffs and finish with the coverlock (or twin needles):
Iron the stabilizer tape along the edges:
Finish with the biastape. I like to use Binder Attachment for Pre-Folded Bias Tape #87
Pin the zipper to the front panels:
Sew the zipper with edgestitchfoot 10D.
Finally, the blanket coat is ready:
Yes, I like warm homewear. Let me know in the comments if you wish to make one too? Or do you sew other winter homegarments?
I’ve been looking for a way to make myself a comfy coat out of a fuzzy blanket I have. This one looks the easiest out of all the ones I’ve found and I think is the winner!
Hi Diana, thanks for your compliment! Yes, this is really an easy one! I hope you will succeed in sewing one!
Dreadful, come on I expected much better from Bernina after I bought my sewing machine. I have never found anything to give me ideas or wanted to make, you are so out of date. I have given you more than two years, I am now unsubscribing, so disappointing.
Dear Liz,
Thank you for your feedback. There is so much you can do with a sewing machine and we are constantly looking for new bloggers and projects to share. If you feel like letting us know what you were missing on the BERNINA Blog, you are welcome to contact me through my email-adress: [email protected]!
Kind regards, Ramona from BERNINA International
Hi Liz, I’m sorry to hear you’re not fond of this project with the vintage blanket. There are so many ideas on the blog and in the Inspiration magazine from BERNINA. In our blogposts we offer ideas as well as technical information. Of course we encourage sewists to find as many ideas as possible through all kinds of inspiration sources.
As Ramona mentioned, we’re always interested in concrete suggestions on what BERNINA sewists like to find in our blogposts. So please, let us know what you are looking for.
Very cute and does not look overly difficult. Thanks for sharing. Would be a great way to make some donated children’s coats for winter with the nice fleece blankets you can get on sale around here in Ohio.
Hi Sharon, it’s not difficult at all. The only thing is the sleeve is narrow when you sew the side seams together and topstitch. It’s a very act to make them for donation. Good luck with it!
Hi It’s windy, wet, cold, this coat looks perfect for this weather, I’ll will be making it. Â thank you
Hi Jacky, I’m glad you like it. I think it’s very comfortable and it helps for a cosy warm feeling.