delays

Due to personal reasons the next couple of cloaks will be delayed. I'll resume the festival of cloaks as soon as I can.

The festival of cloaks (part three)

Tailored shoulders, version one.

Sometimes you just don't have enough material to make a semi or full circle cloak.You can keep the same length by forming only a partial circle but then the front opening will hang open rather than falling closed naturally. But there's a solution! We shape the pieces so there's a seam running along the shoulder area leaving you with a cloak that closes naturally in front. You don't get as much billowy goodness but you save on fabric.

Here's how to make it.

The festival of cloaks (part two).

A little re... um green riding hood. Useful to protect you from the elements when bringing a basket of goodies to your grandmother, or for wearing while riding as it is short enough that you won't sit on it while in the saddle. A more modern type of cloak used more in the 18'th and early 19'th centuries than in ye olde days, the details of construction aren't too different.

So here's how to make it.

The festival of cloaks (part one).

Welcome to my month long festival of cloaks. I'm going to try to use as many cloak patterns as I can with easy to find, low cost materials. Feel free in your own work to line the unlined, replace hooks with clasps, and use more expensive materials than I myself do.

Today we're going to start simple and make changes to the pattern with each successive cloak. So, for our first entry in the series, I offer the basic semicircular cloak that most of the costume making community have at least one of in their closets.