I've laid out a pattern that I've had for years, and I'll use the largest size that is there. It promised to be a simple coat, and the pieces are few. I'll forgo the lining, as the back of the quilted fabric will be fine. I'll just have to figure out how to handle seaming, covering seams, and binding edges. So, not so simple!
After the Connecticut Historical exhibit (where there was a knock-out quilted petticoat) I visited the Yale Center for British Art and zeroed in on Ford Madox Brown's "Pretty Baa-Lambs" where the woman is wearing a quilted skirt. I'm giving a detail because it's so grand. It's from the 1850s.
