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10-13 red cloak

  • 2 1/2 yard red panne velvet

  • 2 1/2 yard blue panne velvet

Procrastinate.

Cut half circle. Sew on long edge. Cut neckhole. Make hood from scraps. Whine about how stretchy stretch costume velvet stuff is... Assemble. Hang on skeleton dress form. Hem. Whine about how the grainlines don't match and how the hem puckers...

This one is for the older of my two younger brothers.
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Thomas Jefferson said, "It is amazing how much can be done if we are always doing."

That's the opposite of this project. I started sometime in January, because it'd be quick and easy and I was supposed to do it back in November as a birthday present. I got as far as the hem, sewed it crooked because it's bias, knit, and baglined. I started taking it out but then tossed it on a pile of UFOs and left it. 

For months.

Then I had the bright idea of making a dressform, followed by the lightbulb moment of hanging the cloak to stretch for awhile, and  then I could hem it on the dressform instead of making the recipient stand so I could mark a straight hem... 

It still took four hours spread out over a week and a half to finish, though. 


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