Gorgeous and Warm: Hooded Capes & Cloaks!

• Sewing machine and basic sewing skills.  (you'll need to sew 3 straight lines, a slightly curved hood line and do a little gathering)
• Fabric of choice  (I used 3 yards of fabric for Belle's cape...but 5 for my RED Riding Hood cape)
• Some type of cape clasp or button and cord.

I used my mad photoshopping skills to make a basic pattern guideline.
Because I was making these to fit adult sizes, I used large amounts of fabric...but you can scale it down for any size person.

Keep your fabric folded in half like when you buy it.
(the right side of this picture is the folded edge)

60 inch width fabric made this perfectly flowy!
I used all the width at the bottom and tapered it up to the top.
2 pieces are separate and cut on the selvage edge.
1 piece was cut on the fold.
3 pieces for the cape.
Measure from the base of the neck to the floor for the length measurement.

Then take the 3 big pieces and sew the diagonally cut lines together.
2 long straight stitches.

Stitch on the tapered edges to sew all 3 pieces together.

Then I rounded off the bottom edge and hemmed it.
As well as rolling that selvage edge and hemming the sides.
(again, not necessary unless your fabric frays)

I knew I wanted a giant hood.
I'd wear it down mostly, so I wanted it big and impressive.
I traced my hoodie hood and made it very exaggerated.

Sewed it and flipped it right side out.

There has been a lot of confusion on this part.

Please please please check out my Monster Hoodies to get a better idea of how to sew a hood.

Then it's just a matter of attaching the neck of the hood to the neck of the cape.

Try the hood on your head and make sure you know how it should lay before sewing it to the cape.

Pins are helpful too!


For my RED cape, I did a pointy hood.
For the Belle cape I did a round hood.