How to Make a Hooded Cloak without a Pattern

Learn how to make a hooded cloak without a pattern, just using two of your own body measurements! This DIY hooded cloak is perfect for dressing up as a wizard, witch, superhero or other character for Halloween, a costume party or a cosplay event! Sew a red hooded cape to be Little Red Riding Hood, or so many other possibilities.

You can make the circle cloak extra long or extra short (a capelet), and it will always be swingy and dramatic!

Here’s what you need to make this hooded cloak:
• 1 decorative button (optional, to cover stitches for snap)

Skip to the part you want to see:
0:00 introduction and materials
1:10 calculating how to measure and cut the fabric
3:22 tracing out the first half of the cape (semicircle)
5:23 cutting both halves of the cape
5:39 sewing together the two halves
6:08 calculating the base of the hood
6:38 drafting and sewing the hood
7:36 attaching the hood to the cape
8:20 finishing off the edges
9:11 adding the snap

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[claireburge]

You have just saved a mumma! My girl asked to be red riding hood TOMORROW. Managed it with this tutorial!! Thank you so much. It looks amazing

[patriciawalker]

WONDERFUL, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH. I actually made a beautiful cape, some years ago. It was SO beautiful, it was stolen.

Now, thanks to you I have a good, simple project to replace it. Bless your heart.

[ammonite]

thank you for drawing it all out first!! I have such a hard time with math and this made it much more understandable. I'm planning to make a cloak for my brother who wants to look like a mage. you'd think he's 6--hes 16 lol!!!

[fiend_in_a_locked_box]

Tysm, im being a wizard for halloween, and this tutorial was a life saver!

[birdboy]

this was perfect!!! thank you so much! used this for a DND outfit and everyone loved it! worked great 👍👍👍

[juicesapfjori]

I appreciate you not using too much technical jargon as i am a total beginner. Thank you so much for your video!! Quick question: When you divided 35 by 6, where did the 6 come from?

[briannaniklaus]

Thank you so very much for making this I had started a cloak for my husband a while ago, with fabric that I could not find more of, and I am still learning how to sew and this was without patterns, so I had been waiting to finish it for years because I didnt want to ruin the nice fabric, and I have finished it today thanks to your video! ❤️🎵

[cindytate-metz]

Thank you!!! I can do this! And for a lot less money than a costume! Great video!

[denisewatson]

Very interesting and simple motivating me to Sew again 😅👍🏽

[koblefra]

Im gonna be a true evil black metal wizard with this 😈😈

[paradoxworkshop]

Next: how to make a vest with sleeves!
(What you made is called a Cape)

[clareburns-gx]

I'm confused - how did you get the 6cm? Also you said to lay out fabric with 2 salvages together, but then when you cut you said you had 4 salvages and to sew together... where did the 4 come from? I am lost as to how to lay out

[Darkshifter]

Great video, I’m pretty new but this was easy to follow for the most part. I was wondering what the purpose of having four layers was for? Could I do the step at 3:22 only once instead of twice and then just sew those two pieces together and call it good? Thanks!

[Runescope]

You lose me at the 5:23 mark. It looks like you've got two folded sections together, which is 4 layers of material, which would make the cloak 2 layers total when complete, but the cloak is obviously only one layer when done, so where did those 2 extra layers go?

[non-binaryrat]

An amazing video thats easy to follow! If I were to do a cloak with a semi-thick fabric outer layer with silk on the inside, How would I go about that and How would I sew them together?

[pommecouture]

Bonjour, Je ne comprends pas bien l'anglais, mais les vidéos sont bien faîtes. J'espère ne pas faire d'erreurs. Dommage que l'on ne peut pas traduire en français. Merci pour vos explications.

[missbubblybee]

This is the best tutorial I've found for cloaks so far! Where did the 25cm come from for the hood? Wouldn't it have been 35cm?

[Dragon-Slayr]

By creating a knuckle head and then using a 3 5 as cover to make a Clark from my feet on the otherside back to font 4 hours chants cloak

[raTchelmae]

thank you "sew" much!! how should I attacht he hood if I have two colors, an inner color, and an outer color?

[Mari-ja]

Great tutorial! Small comment : circumference formula is 2*r*Pi=2*6cm*3=approx 46cm. So initial 35 cm is not really fitting in, but anyway, very good tutorial for assembly!