I made this cloak for my brothers Legolas cosplay.

You will need:

-Wool fabric

-A hood pattern

-A button and thick string

-Optional-Leaf of Lorien brooch

How to make:

-Start off making the hood pattern, I used this book

Here is the page I used incase you don’t have this book or another for a hood pattern

-To make the pattern you will need your neck measurement, I’d suggest adding about 5 inches so it not tight around your neck. K-L is half of your neck measurement plus the 5 inches, for example my brothers neck is 13”+ the 5”=18” So K-L should be 9” long

-Make the pattern and cut two out of your wool material.

-Use an overlock/serger machine to finish edges, if you don’t have one you can always skip this step as it’s not 100% important but I think it looks neater.

-Sew hood pieces together, fold the edges over and top stitch, iron your seam open to make them neater

-Now to make the cape you will need to cut I rectangle piece of fabric.

LENGTH-This will be how ever long you want your cape so measure from your neck down you back to find out how long.

WIDTH-This is how wide your hood is plus another 5-10” depending on how many pleats you want in the back.

-Overlock/serge edges(again this is optional) fold over and top stitch down the 2 edges and the bottom

-Measure the cape and mark the middle and 10cm either side of the middle with tailors chalk

-Pin the 2 edges together and match the middle with the centre stitch line on the hood and pin too

, then where you drew the lines pinch the fabric

then pin to the side like this both facing the middle and sew

-It should look like this

-Now sew a button on one side and abit of string on the other side just underneath where the hood starts, sew on inside so you can’t see it on the outside

-The you can put it on and add the brooch and you are done!