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Front & Center

By Pauline Richards

Dress up a winter coat with toggle closures.

Pattern modifications aren't necessary when substituting toggles for buttons and buttonholes. The featured toggle coat sports 2"-long antler buttons. If your chosen buttons are a different size, adjust the loop size so the buttons fit comfortably through them.

MATERIALS

  • Vogue Pattern 2692, view D, or similar coat pattern with button-front closure
  • Coat-weight fabric, lining and interfacing in yardage indicated on pattern envelope
  • One topstitching or jeans needle size 100/16
  • Five 2"-long antler buttons
  • 3 1/2" x 6" rectangle of faux suede to match coat fabric
  • 1 yard of cording or braid to match coat fabric
  • 1/2 yard of 12"-wide paper-backed fusible web
  • Matching all-purpose thread
  • Matching topstitching thread

...Getting Started

From the October 2004 issue of Sew News magazine.



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