Free Trench Coat Pattern

I had a little *moment* when I stumbled across this Fabrics Store Lola Trench Coat pattern and just fell in love with the sleek, modern style😍 I couldn’t believe it was free! I’ve had 3 yards of this shadow grey linen (idk why it’s named that, it’s for sure dusty pink lol) for months and was just waiting for the right project to cut into it.

This linen is super lightweight, which although not what I envisioned for a trench, I actually love because since the jacket is unlined, it’s just a light layer, much more wearable casually than I’d thought it’d be. A perfect extra summer jacket. The pattern teaches skills like flat-felled seams, single welt pockets, and narrow hemming.

It’s marked as an intermediate pattern and I think that’s accurate. Instructions are mostly pretty clear and have photos which is nice. I didn’t make a toile, just cut into the good fabric, and messed up pretty royally installing the welt pockets not only upside down BUT ALSO on the wrong side of the fabric on one side 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I was able to unpick it, stitch the pocket hole up and cut a new one, but it left a very ugly little seam still. Trying to turn my mistake into beauty, I added a little machine embroidery flower to hide it that matches the gold topstitching thread I used. In hindsight, I would do a matching pink if I did it again, but it did its job and is a nice little addition.

Lemons into lemonade

A little embroidery to hide my mistakes. Practice your welt pockets, people.

So PSA: practice welt pockets before just going for it 😂 They give you an option to interface the welts, which I did, and then regretted because they’re ugly on the wrong side and bulky in my light fabric, so I ripped most of that off. The pattern also says to use fusible web to attach the inner part of the front facing to the body which I don’t really like, it’s not staying so well, so I may go back and slip stitch it to the body.