What's up guys, welcome back to my channel.
If you're new to my channel, then welcome, I'm Bonnie
Today I'm going to be showing you guys how to create
this super easy, DIY, inexpensive, hooded cape.
Now if you're like me and you're into anything like:
Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Once Upon a Time...
Any of those types of shows or stories...
Then you will find it as cool as I did to be able to make
one of these capes.
It shouldn't take you longer than 30 minutes
to make this, and for this tutorial you're not going to
need a sewing machine or a needle & thread.
This is a great piece to make for Halloween or for
anything where you need a quick costume.
And it definitely won't cost you more than $20 dollars.
This would be perfect for any kind of makeup look or
Halloween look where you want to be a wizard,
or a witch, or a vampire.
Anything that would need a cape.
You can make this with or without the hood,
and as short or long as you want it.
And I will have all of the material I used linked & listed
below; they all came from Hobby Lobby.
I tried to make this tutorial as simplistic & quick
as possible.
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I hope you all enjoy this tutorial, and let's jump into it.
So you're gonna need some kind of fabric.
I got "Penne Velvet" from Hobby Lobby for 40% off.
You'll need some ribbon.
You may need a marker pencil.
You'll definitely need a tape measure,
and scissors,
and some fabric glue.
Having some fabric pins on hand would definitely be
helpful too.
So first we're going to start making the rectangle for the
hood.
I wanted mine to be really baggy & oversized so
I did 26" x 28" as the measurements.
I'm using pins to mark off these measurements
because the white pencil wasn't working on this material.
I will tell how to find your measurments in the
description box.
Once you have marked off all of your measurements,
you're just going to cut along those lines.
It doesn't have to be perfect
especially is this is just for a makeup look for
Instagram or whatever; a quick costume.
The lines don't have to be perfect, perfect.
So once you have your rectangle for your hood,
go ahead and cut off the excess and even out
the end of your material.
So now taking the rectangle that we cut,
You're gonna fold it inside out along the shorter side.
Then you're just going to open one end,
and place your fabric glue along the edge.
Then put it back together
and press it down.
If the glue bleeds through to the surface beneath it,
don't worry it's water soluble;
you can clean it right up.
Now on the other end of your rectangle,
You're going to fold the edge up about 1 inch.
Make a tiny slit a 1/2 an inch front the front.
One inch from that, make another slit.
And then every 2 inches after that.
At this point, set your hood aside and let the glue dry.
Now taking what's left of your material
we're going to use that for the cape.
Find the edge that you want to go around your neck,
and fold that over, about 1 inch.
and pin it.
Then go ahead and make little slits every 2 inches
along the whole edge of the cape,
just like we did on the hood.
Now take the pins out of your cape
and if your hood is dry you can connect the two.
How you do that, is line up the hood in the middle
of the cape, and then your just going to start weaving
the lace ribbon into the holes.
I don't think there has to be a particular way to do this.
I just weaved in and out of the hood and then into the cape,
and so on and so forth.
You can see how simple this is.
It would really be great for a last minute costume.
Sidenote, for this project I used 3 yards of material.
I'm 5'5" and this goes all the way to my feet.
Now you're just going to take the other end of the ribbon
and do the exact same thing on the other side.
Once you've connected both sides of your hood,
your'e just going to weave the ribbon
in and out
through out all of the rest of the holes left
in the sides of the cape.
For this, I did not wrap the lace over the edge
of the material. I just kept it going
in a straight line and wove it in and out of the holes.
Do this on both sides
and then you can pull your material tight.
Then go ahead and lightly burn the edges of your lace
so they dont have any frayed ends.
At this point you're done and ready to try it on.
So, that's all for this tutorial.
I hope you all found it easy and simplistic.
If you have any questions please feel free to
comment below.
I will try to answer them as best I can.
If your recreate this cape be sure to tag me on
Instagram or something. I would love to see it.
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on all social media.
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Watch out for part 2,
the makeup tutorial that goes with this cape.
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And I will see you in my next video.
Thank you for watching!
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