How to: Sew a Cloak with 1 Metre of Fabric ! | Red Velvet Cape Tutorial for Halloween or Christmas

These easy sewing instructions walk you through the steps of making your own cloak (or cape) from a 1 metre length of fabric.

Perfect for making your own devil fancy dress at Halloween or a festive costume at Christmas (especially if you sew white fur to the hem). It’s also budget-friendly!

I include lots of diagrams and photos to help you, as well as providing the sewing pattern and showing you how to measure out the fabric shapes.

This project is simple enough for sewing beginners; mainly because there aren’t really any fitting issues since a cloak isn’t form-fitting.

If you want to make the cloak longer, shorter, wider etc. then just amend my pattern to suit your needs. I do a drawstring neckline, but you can of course change this to a toggle clasp or other fastening if you wish.

I hope you have fun making it, and thanks very much for watching!

P.S. For reference purposes, I am about 5ft 8 tall. The photos at the start of the video show me wearing the cloak so you can see how long it is on me.