This was not the thing I wanted to have happen one cold and wet morning. The loud clang bang I kept hearing from the dryer was making me rather nervous. Usually when I put the coat in the dryer it would make a bang and clang because of the zipper but this time it just sounded different.

Different in a bad way.

I was really not happy to find my zipper pull detached from my coat, especially since I didn’t have another warm AND water-proof one.

Keep in mind this coat was a couple years old, pissed me off, and was only around $10. It pissed me off because the zipper would get caught in the little flaps it had to cover the zipper. It had a invisible zipper thing going on, and had more flaps on the inside to keep the zipper off the skin. But those flaps just kept getting stuck!

I had to fix it.

Why fix something you hate though? Well there is that thing called money that you need to buy a new one… Yeah a little short on that front. Plus this was the first coat I found when we first moved here to the Pacific North West that would fit and keep me warm from the snow.

So I decided to get destructive and cut out the old zipper. I cut just enough to hide most of it behind the front flaps and get the teeth off. I went through my large amount of random zippers I own (I don’t know how I collected so many actually..) and found the darkest one I had, it looked almost a dark blue. This would have worked well since my coat is navy.

It looks blue right?

Yeah its not. I realized after destroying the other zipper and starting to pin this one on that I must be color blind! Its purple. Not blue.

Purple!

I was really anxious about putting it in my coat but I almost felt like I didn’t have much of a choice. Besides the Husband convinced me that it wouldn’t look bad since it would just be a purple accent. Besides, he said, you’re a girl it’ll work.

I probably rolled my eyes at him.

But I fixed my coat. It actually works better now that I fixed it. To get the zipper in I just used the inner and outer flaps as a sandwich to the new zipper and sewed it together. I really can’t sew a straight line but oh well. It works and you don’t notice the bad stitching I did. At least I’ll be warm though.