It's rather simple but I wanted to post this because it's the first thing I've completed on my old sewing machine that I've started to use again. My singer finally gave up the ghost (I've had it for five years of near constant use) and I realized that five years ago my sewing machine expertise weren't quite what they are now. So, I took out my old sewing machine, a EuroPro, to see if I could fix the problem.
Five years ago, I was very frustrated with it and was going to take it in but realized that just buying a new machine would be cheaper so...the EuroPro went to sit in the corner like a bad machine. I never went to get it fixed because the Singer worked so well for so long! However, after the bad, impossible to fix, issues the Singer gave me, I dug the EuroPro back out. The problem? The tension was off. Within a minute I had it working good as gold. /facepalm. Oh well, good thing I never got rid of it!
So this pink and green cape was sewn on the EuroPro. I'm doing the Reddit Santa thing again and the lady I got said she has two pups and a 6 year old girl. Both Mom and Daughter's favorite colors are pink and green. I went to Joanns and picked up some pink cotton flannel and basic green broadcloth. I only got a yard of each. The cape is just three panels - one cut on the fold. the hood is two rectangles. The straps are just scrap pink flannel that I folded over and stitched down.
I pleated the hood to the neckline of the cape, leaving a few inches on either side of the opening free. I bag lined most of the rest of the cape - just pulling the hood through the very bottom back of the cape and then sewing that shut. It's simple but I think it's cute. I'm hoping the 6 year old Daughter likes it. I think every kid needs at least one good cape growing up - whether to play superheros or fairy tale characters.
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