The Idea

There is an incredible movement of late involving people getting hands-on with their stuff. I'm talking Wright Brothers, Nikola Tesla type of hackery; fearless men and women tearing apart whatever they can to create their dreams.

All of this invokes visions of vintage photos of guys with handlebar mustaches, chomping on cigars; wearing bowlers, leather gauntlets and massive overcoats with huge pockets as they re-write the laws of physics or try to fit an even larger wheel on their velocipede.
Sure, we still have that thirst for invention but what happened to that sense of style?

Now I'm not suggesting we wear three piece suits while we work on our latest Altoids tin hack, but if we're all going to be photo-documenting everything we can do better than that ratty pair of jeans and swag shirt.

Once again I'm struck by how reality is so different from my childhood visions. I say no more!

Why can't we have the big overcoats? ...the cigars and mustaches are up to you.

I plan to design a productivity coat for all the makers out there. Something that you can wear to not only protect your favorite pair of ratty jeans, but also something that says "damn straight I voided the warranty and I'll do it again!"

Now I could make these coats and have them for sale online but my time is far too limited and I would have to charge so much it would be insulting ...besides I'm too busy writing run-on sentences to our new blog. For this dream to become a reality I need as many people as possible wearing these coats and not every creative genius out there has a wardrobe budget.

So here is the plan:

• Create a blog that documents the process of making a Mighty Coat of Productivity.
  
• Attempt to create a reasonably accessible pattern file for people to download and print out at their local plotter.
  
• Suggest possible fabrics and amounts for cutting
  
• Provide sewing guidelines so people have a chance at getting these things into one piece.
  
• Offer a continuing collection of options -pockets, straps- for you to customize your coat.

Once that gets rolling you, the reader, can download the designs and attempt to sew it yourself ...or better yet, barter your amazing tech skillz against someone else's amazing sewing skillz!

Props to all my Seamstresses and Seamsters out there!

Ahem, anyhoo... We'll see how this plays out.