Cloaks and how to make them?

[Melody]

Meira wrote:
> I was planning on going to see CoS in flowing black robes, with a
> wand, a Dark Mark tatooed on my arm, the works.

Cool.  I highly recommend dressing up for movies.  It is fun to freak
out the other patrons a little.  ;)


> I looked for days a website about cloak patterns, but all I found
> were explanations on how to make cloaks (sleeveless, or really
> short), or lists of broken links and sites with yet more
> explanations on how to make cloaks written in terrible english)

I can tell you the patterns I used, which someone else here asked for
as well and I never got them to her, Sorry about that.

I found McCall's costume 3339 is a perfect adult size robe. (you do
mean the robe part not the cloak, right?)  The sleeves are the perfect
graduation and the collar and front are fitting with the movie.

The pattern does not have the hood though, so instead of trying to
just blindly cut a hood out, I found another pattern Simplicity
costume 5916 which has tons of little patterns and a hood one.  There
is a tunic style pattern with this one, but it looked like it would
not work as well for an open robe as the McCall's.

I used a wool fabric with a touch of nylon in it.  It looked very nice
and was fluid just enough.  Also warm enough.  I also lined my robes,
which I recommend.  Granted, the pattern did not call for it, but
lining as just a repeat of the main garment just turned inside out.

And for closure, I looked at the pictures of the robes and cut the
diamond looking things out of felt and hand sewed them on with a loop
underneath on one side and a button on the other.

And, I think that is all.  I hope I answered your questions.  Making
the robe was a lot of fun but I still have little black threads in my
carpet that are stubbornly ignoring the vacuum cleaning.


Melody