Easy Harry Potter Cape (DIY)

Let me guess: your child got an invitation to a Harry Potter birthday party and you have to sew a cape. (Because your darling child wants one and of course mommy makes it.) And yes, the party is already tomorrow and you are googling like a crazy person to find one easy and quick tutorial. At least that's what I was doing few weeks ago.

I googled and googled and turned Pinterest upside down but I didn't find any search results that would have solved my problem: how to sew the **ing cape right now. Just before my meltdown I figured out how to do a super easy but showy cape.

So here you are Internet, you're welcome! All you need is a dark fabric (mine was wool) & ribbons.

This easy and fast cape is a cape with faux hood.

I didn't want to do "just" a cape, Harry Potter is a wizard not a super hero. Harry flies with a broom not with a cape, but I was not going to sew a gown with sleeves. Not enough time, not easy enough. I wanted to do a cape with hood but realised I had made only one hood before - when I was eleven.

So I needed an easy way out and figured out how to sew this faux hooded cape with wizard twist. Here we go!

Easy Harry Potter Cape (DIY)
Like I said this cape is superduper easy to make. Just cut a huge square from the fabric, make the hem round and fold the faux hood. Finish the hem and sides, sew ribbons to faux hood and continue those ribbons to strings. Voila! In case this didn't cleared the clever shortcut to the easy-cape-heaven I made more specific instructions below.

Step 1: Cut and fold!

• I had a nice wool fabric in my stash. I started cutting a large square folding it like the picture above.
• After that I had to cut the hem round. I did that with a piece of yarn and chalk and used them as a giant compass to draw the hem round. Then I cut it.
• Then I folded the opposite corner and made the "faux hood" to fit the measurements of the child.

So easy! Then Step 2: Final touches!

• After cutting and folding I finished the hem and other side with decorative zig zag. I left the selvage unfinished because it was really nice as it was.
• I looked through my ribbon stash and found a perfect pair for a Gryffindor cape: red and gold.
• Then I marked with chalk the point where the faux hood fold was (in both sides) and sewed the faux hood triangle with the ribbons to the mark. Then kept on sewing only with the ribbons to make them one ribbon (both sides).
• After that I sewed few stitches back and forth nearby the cape fold marks.  That way I ensured fold stay in place.) 

There! Beholder of this luxurious cape is ready for the birthday party and you can go to sleep in time. 

Lumos!