Removable winter jacket liner

Step 4 Attach buttons

If you want your liner to be removable, this is the next step.  If you would prefer your liner to be affixed, skip ahead to step 6.

Let's start with the back.  Lay your fabric on the inside back panel of your jacket (where it will be when we're all finished).  Using your marker or chalk, lift the corner of the fabric and make a little mark on both the jacket and the fabric where the button and it's corresponding hole will be.  Mark all four corners.  You'll also want one to two buttons between the corners. Picture X shows where I made my marks.

Do the same thing for your front panels.  One button in each corner, with one or two between them. See picture X.

Set your fabric aside. 

Using your needle and thread, attach buttons to your jacket where you made your marks.  Be careful to only attach them to the inside layer, not through to the outside of your jacket.  Give it 6 or 7 stitches, to be sure. 

Comments

[DeliveryMcGee]

Simultaneously overkill and not enough on the buttons, not that you needed to add any at all -- those big green buttons around the edge (3 each side, and two on the shoulders) are for the stock cold-weather liner, pictured below. They are, by the way, sewn all the way through the outside layer; apparently the US Government didn't trust the lining fabric alone to hold the liner. But you shouldn't have any problems, spreading the load out over that many buttons.

I do like the tiger stripe fake fur, though, as well as the other commentator's fleece sweater idea. Perhaps make multiple liners of varying thickness/insulation quality so you can have the perfect coat for any weather!

In case you were wondering, the random button, snap, and buttonholes on the outside around the collar/lapel area are for attaching the fur-lined arctic parka hood. Why they used three different fasteners, I have no idea.