"good for any number of costumes..." Costumes? Bah! I'm going to make one and wear it just for fun!

The visuals and instructions were very clear and made the tutorial easy to understand. This was, hands down, the best cloak tutorial I've been able to find. Thank you guys so much!

Finally a teacher that gets it. Explaining something like this needs pictures not words. Thanks!

‘a hooded cloak perfect for many costumes’ me, planning on just wearing it in normal life: uh

This tutorial saved my cosplay. It’s great

Thank you for explaining the sewing terms while you did this! Like how to do a back stitch, or basting, or front stitch. I’ve sewn for years but I never had “formal training” and when I read books I get confused when they try to explain it but it still doesn’t make sense. Seeing it and watching someone do it really helps! Thanks so much!

You are one of the best teachers on the web..thank you..Bill

I love how you understitched everything! I’m so excited to make this cape! It’s really well constructed! Thank you so much for making this video! 😊♥️

I'm watching this for the future when I'm able to make one of my own, but this video is really easy to digest and understand! Definitely saving this video for the future!

Two Things; 1.) I love your nails! 2.) Thank you for showing close up shots of your sewing techniques. It was so helpful.

Great informed video...gorgeous cloak. I can't wait to finish my hood to cape. Love your nails too!!

I enjoy this classic design to protect me from the wind. I have learned some neat techniques that will make my work look professionally finished.

Thank you so much for this video! I'm using a pattern for the first time to make a cloak and have been so anxious that I'm doing it wrong and your content has really put me at ease!

AWESOME TUTORIAL !! Just made super cozy fun fur cape for Burning man - it turned out so well! THANK YOU

THIS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR MY WHOLE LIFE *ungodly squealing*

so far, best I've seen on the internet. Especailly since in the pattern video you show us the general idea and let us add our own details, every toher expects you to use exactly their pattern or the cloak/cape fitting well is up to luck.

Fantastic instructional video, thank you very much for sharing this.

That is amazing and I could create one for winter with slits for my arms. I so love your videos!!

Yours is the best tutorial I've watched! Thank you. I'm making a velvet, satin lined cape for my little Flower Girl to wear in February in the UK. I'll go from your video, it's great! xx

7:19 when she starts making the hood

Wow, this looks amazing! Brilliant tutorial, thank you.

So glad I found your channel - love your pattern-making and the great tutorial on the cloak ❤. You have a new (bell) subscriber 😊 x

Thank you so much for having this tutorial thanks to you I was able to design the hood for my Taskmaster cosplay

Fantastic video, thank you so much. It is such an easy to follow tutorial :)

Thanks! That's help a lot! Great explanation with full details 👍

+Ella Guru Mine is alphasews. I've never had an issue but, when I sewed on brocade, the bottom of the foot would sometimes catch and snag the fabric. To prevent this, you can place gift tissue paper between the foot and the fabric. When you finish, just tear off the paper.

absolute talent. thank you Mam!!

This is perfect for my costume! Thank you!

Thank you for another great and very helpful video! I haven't learned to sew using patterns yet and purchased Simplicity 2571 thinking I would make JUST the cape. I cut the pattern pieces out but just couldn't grasp the directions. Thankfully you had this video! I'm glad I made it your way so it is fully lined.

I made a black and red hoodless cape. It's great but very heavy since I used heavy fabric for the both lining and outer fabric. Next time I'll use appropriate weight fabric and add a hood! Love the tutorial!

Thank you for sharing. I'm making my daughter a white/cream satin and felt suggy/cape for Christmas... She asked me to put a hood on it and I was like "KZfaq help!" Lol 😉

Very nice, easy-to-follow directions. I found the top stitching needed a longer stitch...and I think next time I'll top stitch with a heavier thread to add a design element

Fabulous tut thanks

I made this cloak twice. First in velvet (difficult) then in red corduroy and black cotton. Came out beautiful both times. Don’t know how to post a picture. 😷❤️

Awesome! Just in time for Halloween! 🎃😁

Thanks, your instructions are very good. I’m making capes for a wedding.

Omg thank you~ This helped so much!

Thanks. I made a REALLY rough quick version of the for my son. Just 3/4 of the circle, 1metre long and a roughly drawn hood about 2/3 the size of your pattern. Had to gather it a bit to fit neck and hood together but good enough for the Grim Reaper in the dark!

This is beautiful. Thank you. =)

I'm doing it right now, I miss sticking the hood, but it's alredy gorgeous!! thankyou so mutch for this tutorial!!

With this being double layered with the floor and looks like a satin underneath it is it heavy like it would stay put in the front of your cloak specially if you had armhole sleeves

so helpful ❤

I’m using this for the Voltaire cloak from twilight

I am still trying to figure this out. I can do this! I can cut in the right are of the fabric. It’s alright.

How do I add a pocket to this? And is/can the cloak be reverable?

Great video..thank u..I have a small request can u do a cape with wide sleeves? I love what u just did....but there is no video how to do a cape with wide sleeves.. can u show step by step from measureing to draft them, cut them and saw them together. U am trying to make a cape for my 7 year old boy..and u am struggling with sleeves and cuts thank u so much

thanks so much..by far the very very best how to instructions..very detailed and btw your hands are very beautiful. im wiccan and i made my own ritual robe for certain moon phases of the year of celebration of my moon goddess and i needed to pide my robe to her with a hood i felt. .thank you so so much..i cant wait to post a pic of it..its turing out beautiful and its all thanks to your easy instructions. .blessed be sister..

Thank you😁

Good explanation, soo much lingo I don’t know well. For Minnesota renaissance festival, I am add a hood 2 a cloak already made and sew by hand.

If this was already answered, apologies however what is the reasoning behind cutting two pieces for hood and cloak in place of cutting on a fold? Would that work the same or does the seam placement affect how it drapes?

Great tutorial. Any tips on how to keep the cape up on the shoulders. The collar ended up a bit big for me and pulls on my throat a lot since the back is heavy. Any suggestions? Tips. Should I pin to my shirt?

Good instructions but l couldn’t see what it looked like in the end so l didn’t want to make it. Couldn’t see how it fell around the body and shoulders or how the hood laid around the face.

Yay, I need a cloak for my Halloween costume :) thanks

This is the best and explanatory video I hv seen on KZfaq so far. For the hood, when u mentioned 17, do u mean inches or cm?

now I can make my boyfriend an assassins creed cloak thanks :)

You do not know how much your video saved my butt! I had to make a hood for a fairy godmother costume for a parade I'm in on Friday which is two days away and tomorrow I have to go to a bonfire till like 9 pm so thank you so much 😘😘

Hi - what brand walking foot do you use? I had a bad experience with the Distinctive Even Feed foot - it shredded my thread and put a hole in the fabric which was a lightweight cotton knit. I would love to have one of these but I'd like to get one that actually works. :)

Loved the way you did this! If I wanted to do a fancy buckle instead of the ribbon for a costume I'm making, how would I be able to attach that to my cloak? Also, where do you get the interfacing for your projects? I've tried looking at Joanns, but couldn't find it, or looked in the wrong section. Thanks!

Hello Professor Pincushion, I really want to learn but am unfamiliar with the sewing machine itself. Your video is very clear but for me being less educated not as much, do you have videos or resources on how to do this process with the actual stitching process to follow along to?

Is it possible to add lining to a cloak that already has a hood?

love that blue lining, do you have measurements for the hood? Ive been trying to nail that look and havent been able to do it. Just found your vids. Would help me a lot to get the hood estimate measurement. thanks so mich

Thanks! I just needed to know how to make the hood because a ComiCon is tomorrow and I'm cutting it close xD

Thank! I followed this video apart from one point of confusion. At ~10:00 you are attaching the hood to the cloak. Do you first attach the outer material together with a standard seam before attaching the lining part with the hand stitch? If not I don't see how the hood and cloak outer material are connected.

Perfect Timing! I have all the materials I need for a cloak, and making my own pattern, but can't find a single tutorial for sewing all the pieces. I have been watching multiple videos and trying to take notes from each - exhausting. My design has a few more embellishments than yours, but I am also using brocade that I just love to pieces. However, I decided to put my brocade on the outside fabric because I thought it would be a bit too scratchy for the inside. (I have sensitive skin.) How does your cloak feel with the brocade on the inside when wearing it? I'm going to wear out my replay button with this tutorial! I planned to start yesterday, but glad I waited now, because I can usually follow your tutorials straight through. I also love that you are using edge stitching (your understitching) as most videos are not. This weekend will be great for getting this done. Thanks to you and this tutorial!

I'm trying to determine how much more fabric I will need, since I would like to do a longer cape. I'm thinking maybe 35" in length. I am new to sewing, and unsure of how to calculate this. I did try looking on your page, but I wasn't able to find more tips there. Nor in the comments. Please advise if possible. Thank you!

How can i measure the hood part for kids? Great video btw! I like the steps you made

You did not clip the curve?

11:30 I go in trance watching you hand sew and explain:

Nicely done. It's been ages sense I made a cloak. I probably would do it different but to some extent that's preference. IE I'd make 2 cloaks 1 with the lining and one without. Then stitch them together pillowcase style, turn and top stitch. Also I'm a fan of closures instead of ribbon. A frog looks 900% cooler in my opinion.

It looks amazing!! I already have a fabric waiting for me, and i thought - can you help me with the measures? i want a really long hooded cape, and I can't figure them out myself. And another question - do I have to use the lining, or is it only optional?

WOW - I have understood most of what you said in the assemble part. BUT may I ask a question pls, I have a form of Parkinson and sewing the last seam (lining hood to 1/2" seam) is going to prove quite difficult because I shake so. It took me 3 days to take notes of 14mins. Do you/would you know of another way to do the very last seam? I realize it is an easy stitch for most but my left hand has a mind of his own! lol Thanks for thinking for me. Yes, I am a beginner at all of this! How hard would it be to make a cape that buttons on? Is that hard??? (For me at least) Thank you for all the tutorials. I look forward to learning. Many Blessings, Eve

nice

Hi!!! I'm making a jacket that has a hood front piece. I made myself one with fleece blankets, came out pretty good. Now I'm making one for my daughter and I'm putting in a fur lining for the hood front piece. Any suggestions on sewing with fake fur? this hood tutorial was super helpful, BTW.

Can you swap the ribbon for buttons to clasp it together? like instead of it being open in the middle it's clasped to the side near the collar bone?

is it possible to be worn in reverse as well, with the 'lining' worn on the exterior? I want to make a versatile cloak :)

@professorpincushion How would you add pockets to this??

I cut the 4 hood pieces in the fabric however they don't match up as they are the same shape... I followed your video but didn't realise I needed to cut the pattern both ways. Did I miss that instruction??? Or am I just stupid.

The way you attached the hood would that work if you wanted to do a straight collar on the cloak. I wanted to do a mandarin style collar.

Can we buy the pattern?

I'm really confused because my hood pieces don't match up. What did I do wrong?

stalkin- i mean making sure people are okis going to be so easy now

If I needed to shorten the hood (ie-make it smaller) how would I do that?

Would you recommend this pattern for a leather cloak with a fabric lining? If not, what would be a good pattern?

me watching this because of attack on titan:👁👄👁

7:20 good keeping timer

if you build one out of wool looks like it would do a good job keeping you warm

Carcomo hacer capa con capucha en castellano

How many yards of fabric did you use for this?

Starting at 4:50, is that what others call stitch in the ditch? Because I am confused on this part. I see how to do it, thankfully you showed it, but other tutorials say stitch in the ditch and then don't show what they did.

Is this reversible?

Perhaps a class is necessary for my growth here..

I'm at the very end of this tutorial. All of my measurements were done twice and all of my seam allowances are the same, but the neck opening of the cloak is a full 3+ inches wider than the hood : / Sad times.

Gin cape time gin cape time

You have such pretty feminine hands, earth water, mine are more wood element! You did your nails so fun for the video too.

Can you make a hogwarts uniform Type cloak

You did not teach how to cut the fabric to get the capelet shape.

😍😙😘😚👄💋❤👍

You didn't show or say how you cut your fabric. That would be really helpful!

the one you made in the tutorial looks way shorter than what youre wearing in the picture.