Firstly I used a 'how to make a little red riding hood costume' tutorial as a guide. Just to make sure I didn't make a silly mistake really, because I've never made a cape before. I've never done a hood before either so that's going to be fun when I get started on that. I cut out my fabric, using a bit of guesswork on the size. It's 15 inches all the way around so on a newborn it would probably fall towards the middle of the lower leg at the front and down to the ankes or heels at the back.
Here's a picture of the main fabric all cut out:
It's a bit of a darker and fuller blue that it looks in the picture but you can see the shape very well. The neck took a bit of figuring to get it the right size and angle to sit on the neck. I think it might be a tiny bit low but the hood will compensate for that. The good thing about making a cape is that sizing and fitting isn't terribly important. I'm just going to make everything a little bit bigger than it needs to be because I think it'll look cute oversized. Next I cut out the lining fabric which is a bright baby pink. I think the two colours go together really well.
You can see the blue colour a lot better here but the pink is a little less orange in real life. As you can see I cut out the fabric on a fold to best save the fabric as it'll only just be enough for the project, depending on how much fabric I need for the hood which I haven't cut out yet. So we'll see how that goes later.
I've finished sewing the pink lining to the main blue fabric and have just turned in inside out. I'm really pleased with how it's going so far. The fabric colours are quite close to the costume I'm working from. Take a look at my last blog post to see the picture. I bought them online so it's always a bit risky when you're looking for very specific colouring. I've found out I don't have enough ric-rac (which is a zig-zag cord that looks really good on towards the hem of a dress or something) to go around the bottom hem so I'm going to put it down the sides instead, which I think will look a bit more quirky anyway. After I've done that I just need to sew on the ribbon to fasten up the front of the cape and begin making the hood! Hope that goes okay as I don't have enough fabric to restart it if I make a mistake.
Just thought I'd add in here that I don't actually have a baby, neither am I pregnant, I just love little baby clothes and I love making things so I thought it would be a nice thing to do rather than making my own clothes, which I probably wouldn't wear and uses up so much more fabric and money. Thought I'd better add that in, just in case someone I know is reading this and gets a bit suspicious.
So that's how much I've done of the cape so far. I'll keep you updated of my progress and try to remember to take lots of pictures of all the different stages. Please follow my blog if you'd like to stay up to date with my sewing projects.
Bye for now!
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