Many hands, light work

Buffy, my coat is 120 stitches across the back edge, another 120 stitches across the two fronts, and the 240 stitch total equals a five foot circumference. I notice that the two parts you have on the needles now have 130 stitches, which might make your Juliet more than 5 feet around the bottom edge. Perhaps, before you go further, you should make and tape together a paper pattern, then try it on to check the fit. There's a small full-length color picture of the back of Juliet Coat in KF's first book, Glorious Knits, and it quite full--and the coat almost touches the ground.  It's hard to know if the coat your a knitting has been modified from the earlier book, or if the photographer tucked a lot of fullness to the rear in the Glorious Colors photo. Either way, it's a stunner!

Your idea of seaming the shoulders of my Jug Coat is a good one. That would allow me to have a visitor (you?) knit on one side of the coat and I the other as we chatted away. You could practice knitting from yarn "birds' nests."

If fact, the easiest way to handle the Jug Coat would be to knit each patch indiviually, and then seam the blocks together before adding the finishing touches!  Many friends, many hands, light work!