I need help!! ... deciding on pattern and how to finish long edges of camel coat.

I'm debating between 3 McCalls patterns: 3448, 5987, 6209 to make a drapey, floaty coat out of this camel colored fleece. I'm looking for opinions... And ideas on how to clean finish the long front edge and hem of this polar fleece. (I've not made something like this before...)


Looking on pattern review, I'm leaning toward 5987, a pattern that's been made up beautifully by several gals:

Cozy winter white by Meg

Sharon's in a camel color. On her blog sharonsews.blogspot.com she includes a great tip on how to make a mitered corner by stitching on the diagonal. And she shows various ways of wearing this versatile coat.

Chic Black Wool by Nancy

Fresh, pretty green wool by Annie

Gray polar fleece by Claire, who uses a beautiful finish she calls a "Greek stitch", which I've not seen before, but it surely looks lovely.

I'd sure appreciate help in deciding on the pattern and how to finish the edges. I assume this beautiful greek stitch requires a more modern machine than I have???

Gray hoodie for WW, KwikSew 2234 /view A

I just finished a polar fleece hoodie for WW. (It's about time I made something for him, given all that he does for me!) Right this minute, he's down in the shop building me a new African marimba our of African paduak wood. So far, he's cut each of the keys to length, measured and drilled the holes and is now rough cutting the undercut on the band saw.



Back to the hoodie... It's from KwikSew 2234 view A, minus the pocket and lengthened a few inches. It was extremely easy and KwikSew has such good instructions.

...with the hood up (WW vetoed the idea of a string tie through the hoodie)

The marimba keys so far...