the Dalaverse

My favorite Christmas present was a green wool peacoat. Y'all know my obsession with outerwear, and might remember my fruitless search for a green jacket a couple of months ago. Now I have one and it's damaged already. Somehow a seam on the back popped, and I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO FIX IT. I'm not a sewing maven or anything, but I can generally repair tears and lost buttons and whatnot with minimal fuss.

But this - it's between two panels on the back, right, below the waist where it hits the ass, about two inches from the hem. And there's no - overlap, I guess? Where I could just make a few stitches to join the pieces together? It looks like the stitches were made along the edges...the pieces were joined edge-to-edge rather than clinker-built, if I might make a boat analogy. And I have no idea how to replicate that without machinery. At the top of the rip there's a little under-piece like a scarph joint, but even sewing that would leave still leave a rip.

::cries:: I don't know how to fix it without creating a big, unsightly blemish on my pretty, brand new coat! Do any of you guys have any sewing expertise to share? I wouldn't even know where to take it to have it repaired professionally, and whether that would cost more than the coat itself.