{"id":24093,"date":"2025-01-13T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=24093"},"modified":"2025-01-13T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:24:04","slug":"re-padding-a-coat-collar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/re-padding-a-coat-collar\/","title":{"rendered":"re-padding a coat collar"},"content":{"rendered":"

My favourite everyday puffy winter coat is still going strong after 6 years apart from one thing: the padding inside the collar has worn out and split apart so there’s no insulation at the back of my neck. <\/p>\n

I don’t believe in ‘disposable’ fast fashion and I really like this coat, so I put up with it last year. I wondered if there was a way to access the inside of the collar from an unobtrusive spot so I could add some more insulation, but couldn’t find a hidden place to open a seam. But yesterday, I decided that there’s no reason to suffer with a cold neck: I needed to get brave and fix this coat!<\/p>\n

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In the above photo, you may be able to see there’s an almost-invisible seam around the outer edge of the collar (and note the lack of insulation between my hands). Although it’s a very obtrusive place to do my surgery, that seam seemed like the most likely place to be able to get inside the collar. <\/p>\n

The stitches are exactly the same colour as the fabric, so I had to be very careful to only cut through stitches and not fibres of the fabric with my seam ripper.<\/p>\n

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Once I’d cut through a couple of stitches, I was able to unravel more of the seam until I had a hole large enough to access the inside of the collar.<\/p>\n

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I grabbed some of my usual fibrefill stuffing (it’s not just for amigurumi!) to fill out the collar, and although I knew I didn’t want to overstuff the collar, it took a lot more than I’d expected…<\/p>\n

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But once the collar was fully stuffed, I tried on the coat before I stitched the opening closed and quickly realised my mistake: the collar was so full that I felt like I was being strangled when the coat was fully zipped!<\/p>\n

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So I pulled out about half of the stuffing I’d added and spread the remainder thinly and evenly so there are no empty spaces. I tried on the coat again, and it was much better. Warm neck, no strangling (always my preferred state when I wear a coat…)<\/p>\n

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All that remained was to close the hole neatly, as it was in such a visible location. I found the closest colour match in my thread collection and mattress stitched the opening closed. <\/p>\n

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When I’d finished, you could barely see where I’d cut it open, so I’ll call that a success! <\/p>\n

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Now my collar is nicely padded again. It’s intentionally a very cozy snug fit, as I know the stuffing will compact with use so I thought it was better to be more generous than less.<\/p>\n

The real test will be whether the stuffing shifts over time and leaves the back of the neck with no insulation again. But now I know I can access the interior of the collar, I already have a plan in place if that happens: I can open a longer length of the seam, pull out the stuffing, and use a piece of quilt batting inside the collar instead – that will definitely do the trick!<\/p>\n

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Now I’m confident that I can get many more years’ use from this coat – and my wallet and the environment will both appreciate that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My favourite everyday puffy winter coat is still going strong after 6 years apart from one thing: the padding inside the collar has worn out and split apart so there’s no insulation at the back of my neck. I don’t believe in ‘disposable’ fast fashion and I really like this coat, so I put up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24102,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093\/revisions\/24102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}