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Invisibility Cloak – Happy Harry Potter

In honor of Harry Potter’s birthday (July 31st) Rae Gun Ramblings is running a two week long series celebrating everything Harry and the series kicks off today!

Bean is really into make believe lately so I immediately knew I wanted to make an Invisibility Cloak.  She doesn’t really know about Harry Potter yet, but I cannot wait until she’s old enough to enjoy the book series.

Bean decided that a cloak (or cape as she insisted on calling it) should be purple, but I suspect that might be because it’s her favorite color.  In any case, it seemed like a great wizarding color so I went to my stash and grabbed some purple sateen and a black and white polka dot fabric to use for the lining.

For the cloak part I thought I should use some performance mesh.  I haven’t blogged about Bean’s (inevitable) Elsa dress yet, but the one I made was with easy wear knits and for her cape-ish parts I used some performance mesh from JoAnn.  It’s not cheap, but you only need about a yard depending on the length you want and if you use a good coupon (or better yet find it in the remnant bin and on sale!) it’s not too bad. The mesh is a great alternative to tulle because it stretches a bit so if Bean gets it caught on something as she’s running around OR if she steps on it, there’s a bit of give so she doesn’t just fall over.  It also seems to hold up and not get as many tears as a regular tulle would which is nice.  Oh, and it washes and dries really well.  I’m pretty sold on using mesh for these type of applications.

Anyway, back to the Invisibility Cloak…  The pattern I used for the hood is the Little Red Riding Hood Trench coat from Dear My Kids, which is a pattern I won ages ago and have been meaning to sew.  The hood is a separate piece from the coat so I thought it would be great as a starting point.

It turns out that the hood pattern is PERFECT for making a cloak.  The only change I made was to baste the performance mesh in two layers around the edge of one of the shoulder pieces before sewing the outer and lining sections together.  There was more than enough space inside the hood to bunch the mesh out of the way for sewing the pieces together.  Then when I flipped everything right side out and topstitched the cloak was complete.  Pretty amazing.

This girl.  We’ve already had fun playing with the cloak and I think it’ll be super fun for when we’re stuck inside with the cold of winter.  And it really was so easy to make that I’m thinking it’d make a fun gifting project too.  I had to include the following ridiculous gif of Bean.  She was so excited to show me how she would do a “spoooooky spell” and it cracked me up!

I hope you all enjoy the Happy Harry Potter series and don’t forget to enter the big giveaway.  There’s a lot of cool Harry Potter goodies to be won.  Just follow the Rafflecopter instructions below to enter.

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  1. Sarah AJ

    July 21, 2014 at 12:23 pm

    That gif just made my Monday morning!

    Reply
  2. Ajaire

    July 21, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    Haha Sarah, me too! We can't stop staring at it and laughing 🙂

    Reply
  3. OnceUpona Sew

    July 21, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    This is All of the awesome! Performance mesh is such a smart idea. I'm always paranoid about the long stuff, every time I see an Elsa dress I imagine that tulle just going riiiiiiiiiiiiiiip.

    Reply
  4. Ajaire

    July 21, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    I found some in the remnant bin in a super sale when I was thinking about an elsa dress and thought it might work. Then after seeing how she would have totally destroyed regular tulle I am so happy I chose it. It was a no brainer for this cloak 🙂

    Reply
  5. J W

    July 21, 2014 at 4:13 pm

    I could watch that spooky spell all day and still crack up.

    Reply
  6. Rae Gun

    July 21, 2014 at 6:38 pm

    Oh man it looks so so cute on her! THanks so much for joining my Happy Harry Potter craziness!

    Reply
  7. Ajaire

    July 21, 2014 at 6:50 pm

    Me too 🙂

    Reply
  8. Ajaire

    July 21, 2014 at 6:51 pm

    Thanks Marissa! It was a fun project! 🙂

    Reply
  9. Karly

    July 21, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    hahaha! So cute!!!

    Reply
  10. Amy mayen

    July 21, 2014 at 9:11 pm

    DeathEaters beware!!!

    Reply
  11. Polly :)

    July 22, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    So fun! I think you've inspired me. My son's birthday is coming up, so I think I may need to make him one out of grey minky…he LOVES hiding under his blankets and LOVES super soft things, and LOVES Harry Potter.

    Reply
  12. betsy

    July 22, 2014 at 2:30 pm

    Love those blue Always Tom's! Fun projects!

    Reply
  13. Jillian @ Hi! It's Jilly

    July 22, 2014 at 7:57 pm

    Aah! This is so cute! Totally pinned it!

    Reply
  14. Miriam Schulman

    July 22, 2014 at 8:17 pm

    So adorable! The Harry Potter giveaway looks great!

    Reply
  15. Felt With Love Designs

    July 23, 2014 at 5:09 am

    This is so neat!! I love how it turned out!!

    Reply
  16. Stephanie - Swoodson Says

    July 27, 2014 at 4:47 pm

    Love this project, and the gif! I need an invisibility cloak some days, too… ha!

    Reply

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