DIY Kids Halloween vampire cape

Another bit of catch up blogging is this vampire cape I made for Milo shortly before Halloween. We used to have a shop bought one in a toddler size that lasted for a surprisingly long time, but he is 10 now!

I self drafted this, if you can call that self drafting! It’s just a collar, sewn separately, with a double sided gathered rectangle, also finished separately before attaching. Not that I would recessarily recommend doing it that way, it meant sewing through four layers of fabric plus a layer of interfacing, and it doesn’t look amazing inside.

The best way I think to do this would be to draft a semi circle/three quarter circle type thing that aligns porperly with the collar piece, but I was using a remnant piece (some kind of polyester fake dupion) for the black, and it wasn’t big enough for that. The back is just some cheapo poly lining and the velvet ribbon I had lying about.

If I made this again, I would also make the collar quite a bit larger. Once you take away that width for the gathering, it is really quite narrow.

But Milo was happy with it and I think it will do us for a couple of years!

Ellis wores the DIY kids spider costume I made last year. I wrote a proper tutorial for that, if you click through on the link.