I’ve at last pinned the back and front together so that stitching on the front will form the quilting,  probably in some lattice kind of mesh pattern before I add the ‘woolly elements’ on the front and probably something on the back, too.

I somehow came up with the idea of motheaten edges – and indeed as I pulled both coats apart there were a couple of motheaten patches on each coat, but they didn’t fit with the way I cut the fabric…however they would be easy to replicate by t scraping the brushed patches and edges with the scalpel blade I have.  And, in perfect timing, last week I watched a talk by Sharon Peoples in the Textile Talks program series, and lo and behold she did a really nice demo on how she makes 3D butterflies and moths – I’m now thinking of adding a few….