At this point, I have been thinking about and planning on making this jacket for a few months.I started by looking at examples of French jackets by channel, home sewists, other designers. For some examples for your own jacket, you can look here, here, here and here. I haven't bought any fabric yet! Do you believe that? Normally I have fabric, patterns and projects piled up way in advance! I'm hoping to make a trip to NYC to go to Mood and maybe some of the local shops and pick something out in person. I often buy fabric online, which is sometimes a disaster so in this case as I will be spending a lot more on the fabric (I'm budgeting $200...but let's see how that goes!) I feel I need to make an in-person trip and frankly I haven't seen anything calling my name from my online browsing! I asked at a chain store I stopped at last night (I happened to drive by and they were having a sale!) and they did not even have any wool boucle. Eye roll . I wasn't surprised,...