I made a cute little raincoat for my grandson Theo; and I think he looks so adorable in it!
I used the leftover remnants of Waterproof Oxford from my own Mundaring raincoat, originally bought from the Remnant Warehouse; and borrowed one of his hoodies to gauge the size he would need…
I actually based the design on our Mundaring raincoat pattern too! just a much simplified version with a zip up front, sans plackets; the hood has a self facing rather than a separate one, and I just put simple patch pockets on the front rather than the more complicated, weatherproof zipped ones on our Mundaring pattern. Also, his has no weather flap on the back, just a straight back. The length was determined by the length of the zip!
I sealed the seams using a wet-weather gear sealing wax stick, sourced at BCF.
It is fully lined with a soft white cotton jersey, for comfort and warmth, and added a white linen hanging loop. All the raw edges and seams are hidden neatly away between the shell and lining layers.
It was so cute when he put it on! he toddled off to his toy box and retrieved a little wooden elephant puzzle piece, and we spent the next fifteen minutes putting it into a pocket and taking it out again. As it turns out, pockets are utterly fascinating!
I estimate it used around 0.5m of the leftover raincoat fabric plus about the same of the white cotton jersey too. Or 1m in total … So in my dumb little #use30 challenge; I’ve used 23m of my stash. Just 7m to go!
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