Step 1: Search the Internet for the exact kind of fabric you want at the price you want.
Step 2: Broaden your range of possible fabrics.
Step 3: Broaden your range of acceptable prices.
Repeat steps 1-3 until you find an outer fabric and a lining fabric that you like.
Step 4: Carefully determine how much fabric you will need. Allow a little extra, because it will be a huge pain to get more if you run out.
Step 5: Order fabric (grimacing at exorbitant shipping cost optional).
Step 6: Receive email from supplier that they don't have enough of the outer fabric that you need, and can you make do with less? You cannot. Ask if you can backorder. You can't, and furthermore, once they run out of fabric, it is gone forever. Do you still want the lining? Of course not. Cancel your order.
Repeat steps 1-5.
Step 7: Track your fabric shipment obsessively. (optional)
Step 8: Pick up your package at the post office after weeks of waiting (at least, it feels that way). Try to restrain your surprise and dismay at the fact that you paid $12 shipping for a glorified plastic bag.
Step 9: Discover that the supplier's definition of "coat-weight" fabric is roughly equivalent to your definition of "airy shawl-weight."
Step 10: Order Thinsulate to put between the lining and the flimsy wool outer layer of your coat so you can wear it in temperatures below 60 degrees.
Step 11: This time actually grimace at the shipping costs because they are almost the same amount as what you're paying for the fabric itself.
Step 12: Remove "lower cost" from your shrinking list of benefits to creating your own coat versus just going to Macy's and buying one.
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