Making a Sherlock Holmes Inverness Coat

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MATERIALS USED:
Wool tartan: Fabrics & Fabrics, NYC (approx 5 yd)
Silk cape lining: Bazaar Fabrics, NYC (1 yd)
Tailor’s canvas: Steinlauf & Stoller, NYC
Red silk buttonhole twist: Sil Thread, NYC

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MUSIC CREDITS

[JanPospisilArt]

Bernadette: "I need to finish these edges.."
Me, shoving a greasy slice of pizza into my mouth: With a tiny felling stitch, naturally.

[pogostix]

"This isn't historically accurate, but... I may keep it because I just love it so much!" I think that thought, the occasion of finding a happy accident that you turn out to love and keep, probably is historically accurate, and has occurred since the dawn of mankind.

[yanagelfand]

My mom, passing me watching this video:
-- Are you watching a tutorial on how to make buttonholes?
-- No, that's a separate video, I've already watched that and even made my buttonholes according to it.
-- So, you're making a coat and choosing a tutorial?
-- No, I'm not making... I'm just... She's just... No time to explain, I'm just watching this girl make a cape for half an hour, what's so difficult to understand?

[saethrelapin]

“For the Instagram”
I love how she talks about social media like she is really from the past centuries ago

[tillie_brn]

*Bernadette Banner making excuses to avoid the sewing machine for 32 minutes straight*

[jamesbuckingham]

Bernadette: does anyone actually read the descriptions?
Me: OH GOD YES, PLEASE THEY'RE SO HELPFUL

[karinkiltz]

In the novel, Holmes is described as wearing an Ulster coat not an Inverness. The differences are subtle. An Inverness has a longer cape and usually does not have sleeves. It depends on the decade whether it has sleeves or a full cape. Your choice of sleeves, then, is appropriate

[hawkeyepierce]

Bernadette: "If anyone comes up to me at costume college asking to see the back lining of my cape...who even are you?"
Yes, preach Bernadette, preach

[LolasTBs]

"She is thicc, as the young folk say." I love your commentary, Bernadette! :)

[tammyt]

"Sleeves are the devil's work!" I'm cross stitching that on a pillow.
In fact, this video has inspired me in several ways, thank you!

[roseshi]

Who else has been obsessively watching and rewatching these videos even if you’ve never held a needle and have no idea what she’s talking about?

[XeniaLily]

Bernadette: "so with my hand turned machine, this took me 5 hours"
Me, with an electric machine: that would take me all-day, hun

[rentregagnant]

0:54 ... Pulls out fob scissors from conveniently cut pocket for a quick snip. Beyond cool.

[ArcherAmara]

This is going to be a bit random, but thank you so much for posting these videos! I have to say, honestly, that I was not the least bit interested in getting into sewing before I saw your videos. Watching these made me realize that a lot of the fears and inhibitions I faced when looking at sewing things were all things that could be challenged and faced. Watching you solve problems in your work with a happy sort of patience made me feel a lot better about beginning something that seemed daughtingly difficult. Not owning a working sewing machine had also stopped me from getting into this, before I saw you work on your projects with just a hand sewing needle. It inspired me to really, truly, try my hardest with a couple of projects. Now I teach my own sewing classes at a local fabric store, where I get the chance to inspire other people into tumbling down the rabbit hole of problem solving, creativity, and patient hours of calming work. You deeply inspire me and I wanted to let you know, and to thank you for being so amazing and just having fun with what gives you joy ^.^

[EmsIsFab]

Sewing ASMR should really be a thing because that bit with pinning and cutting gave me the chills!

[eshbena]

Actually, Holmes only wore the deerstalker in Hound of the Baskervilles, when he was on the moor, and never wore country wear in town. The whole inverness and deerstalker were a creation of the actor who first portrayed him on stage. If you look at the original illustrations of Holmes, he wore typical suits and top hats like every other man of the era. :) Not that it matters in the slightest, as your costuming is lovely.

[Chibihugs]

Those tiny felling stitches bring me joy, as did all that lovely top stitching. You did a grand job constructing this beauty. I can't wait to see all the pieces together. As soon as fall hits, I would wear that coat everwhere.

[lovelaced]

I was watching this in the car with my dad, and when you said “sleeves are the devil’s work, ” he burst out laughing. Now, whenever I mention you or your videos, he says something along those lines. Love your vids!

[HajerNajlaoui]

Catch me having an existential crisis over lady Sherlock being complete and leaving a void in my life

[phoenixperson]

The whole Lady Sherlock series is my comfort entertainment