That is going to be impressive! I love your idea of using the blankets for wool! Glad you found some inspiration here. Good luck!
Thank you and your group for inspiring (pushing) me to attempt a heavy wool anorak.
Looking at the past posted photos I see many hours of careful work.
After about two weeks of hashing out details and making/modifying a pattern, yesterday I started cutting felted(shrunken)wool blankets. With some guidance from my sewing partner-cousin.
I insisted on a raglan sleeve and a three-piece hood, not some pointed cone head. The hood and sleeves hopefully allow the same fit with varying thickness sweaters/hats under the anorak.
Like this but a bit longer, different sleeves, different pockets... and lower cost.
http://lrbushcraft.com/lester-river-bushcraft-100-wool-olive-green-boreal-shirt-anorak/
A simple enough project for me and I have a commercial walking foot and aheavy duty Union Special surger. Also have made felted wool projects.
My cousin has a Singer #29 ( the original free arm)I may use to flatten the sleeve seams?
Gotta work, because I hate cutting up such lovely blankets.
Mine will be two tone because I used smaller blankets(throws?)
Thanks for the inspiration.
That is a super cool project.
That is going to be impressive! I love your idea of using the blankets for wool! Glad you found some inspiration here. Good luck!