Sew Fantasy Cloaks from Scratch!!

In this tutorial, you'll discover how to make a versatile fantasy cloak, perfect for cosplay, LARP, or adding a touch of magic to your everyday. We'll guide you through selecting fabrics, basic sewing techniques, and customizable patterns, ensuring your cloak captures the essence of your favorite fantasy stories.

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[cjmantel]

Basting can be a number of types of stitches depending on how and where you need to hold things together, but a large, untied running stitch is common. securing it is the big difference, as basting is typically left loose for easy pulling out. So, running stitch is correct for what you do on the first cloak! My main hand sewing recommendation is to get a thimble that fits (making your own out of garment leather is a great beginner sewing project) and learn to use it on your middle or ring finger to help drive the needle. Faster, more consistent stitching awaits!

[EvoWatches]

We need a video on scavenging materials for real world items. Like getting fabrics from thrift store clothes and items. Or repurposing the leather from an old couch on the side of the road.

[doloressims]

Two sewing stiches to learn: Backstitch (running backstitch), and Whipstitch.

[randywolf]

As a sewist, I must say that I really enjoyed this video! Your excitement over the “small” things was so wholesome and definitely a good start to becoming an amazing sewist yourself 😁 Both projects turned out sooo well, I can’t wait to see what you sew next!
Ps, a basting stitch is meant to be a temporary stitch to hold the fabric together while you sew it, so what you did was a running stitch, even if it was a bit bigger than you’d normally see

[TheNerdyHomestead]

Love that your craft style is the intersection between over-engineered and optimized simplicity

[mrnceuy]

I'm an ER nurse, and you learned a knot you didn't even know you learned: the surgeon knot. Wrapping the thread around the needle to stop it from pulling loose is the same way sutures are done to close an incision or a laceration; we also use running (continuous) stitches. Granted, the surgeon knot requires you pay attention to which side is over and which is under, and you're basically creating square knots that don't come loose. Good thing to learn and practice.

[Struthio_Camelus]

1.) Nice new sewing skill logo
2.) The half-hour video length is way easier to accommodate than last week's chonky hour-long opus
3.) 20:11 'Diameter' is different than 'circumference' - which is what you measured.
4.) 24:33 If they're silver, buttons are portable wealth, too.

[wilmawyatt]

You missed a great opportunity for a planty pun/play on words - "It means the world to us that you'll support us in this way and help this tree grow." I absolutely love that noble's swordsman cloak, it looks amazing in the fabrics you chose!

[janebakewell]

I've been sewing costumes as an amateur and professionally for over 15 years, I love seeing how excited you get when you learn something new reminds me, of myself when I was starting out and why I still love doing my job still to this day. You continue to make some incredible things while passing on your learning you are a true teacher.

[AmandaBrooks-ji]

Quick tip for getting rid of hems, making large on-grain rectangles of fabric, and making a good frayable edge, all super easily - snip a little bit into the fabric with your scissors, then grab either side of it and rip the two apart. It tears right between two threads of the warp, so it's guaranteed to be straight and is really, really fast. Also really, really satisfying. :D

[MattProvance]

If you are going to cut it up the middle anyway, you could leave the neck hole smaller since you won’t have to pass it over your head.

[sonjialeyva]

Like other sewists, I really enjoy your sewing videos. It's great to watch some of the very experienced sewists do their thing. However, what I like about yours is how you logic out what needs to be done. The way your present the steps is something that a novice could absolutely do and is presented in an easy-to-understand manner. it's great to learn things from various points of view. There's more than one way to do something!

[andrewwilson]

For anyone that wants a musketeer cloak/cassock, but isn't up to drafting, there are commercial patterns available for it. I think reconstructing history has one.

[HelenBaque]

You got so close to saying “Thank you for helping our Skill Tree grow!”

[amandarehling]

First time ever comenting but this one is actually my jam so i hope this helps someone. 1st. You did a beautiful job with the buttons. If you use embroidery floss and 2 or more threads you can make very pretty button holes without having to be as precise with the stitches. Fraycheck under the stitches will help longevity. Buttonhole stitch works for eyelets too.
Perfect running stitch. Basting is almost never knotted or secured and for me at least unless its a complicated curve my baste stitches are almost an inch long quick and dirty hold. For security add a backstitch every 5-10 or so running stitches and it will last longer and hold up better and if you do pop a stitch you wont loose the whole seam.

I love learning so much from you. Thank you so much for all of your beautiful hard work.

[longshot]

That black cloak is, without exaggeration, the coolest cloak I've seen.

[saxonhermit]

The Musketeer cloaks you based your cloak on are actually very similar to the 17th century cassock! And you have the right idea: the buttons are all over the piece so that it can be worn in lots of different configurations. You can completely close it up when it’s cold and rainy, you can open it and get a nice breeze, you can close parts of the sides and have sleeves—point is, the cassock is an incredibly versatile piece of clothing. It’s a Ruana, but with buttons!

[kevincoon]

😂 love the random bottle of glue and gremlin in the back😂

[NeonFox_]

Generally you baste by doing a large running stitch (and use a contrasting thread for it, because you want the basting to be easy to find and take out). Basting isn't really a stitch itself, it's an action.

The part of the dress shirt that holds up the collar is the collar stand; collar stays are little thin pieces of plastic or metal that are meant to help the points of the collar stay pointy.

[jacksonwells]

Rimming the hole with a piece of string makes it more pronounced and stronger.