what's that expression if you can't serve as a good example then you'll just have
to serve as a terrible warning i'm genuinely unsure as to whether this mistcloak tutorial
comes as a good example or a terrible warning but we're gonna go for it anyway if you would like
to wear the coolest looking but least practical garment in all of scadriel here's how you do it
first you will need fabric i bought a 5 meter bolt of undyed calico for £16 because it was on offer
technically you need to wash and dye it before you start because otherwise it will shrink and then
maybe your seams will pucker or something it turns out all right even if you do it afterwards but
i would advise that you dye it first if you don't need to dye it, wash it first.
you will also need lots of thread i probably used at least 60 meters of black cotton thread
maybe more that being said i did too much sewing more on that in a second
and of course vast quantities of ribbon i got 100 meters of dark gray acetate 36 millimeter ribbon
and i used basically all of that and then i ordered 200 meters of 24 millimeter dark gray
acetate ribbon i have not used all of that i have probably used more than 100
meters of it though i may have overdone it a bit with the ribbon 200 meters is probably sufficient
i ordered mine from ribbon.co.uk because where else would you get 300 meters of ribbon next you
will need to set up your sewing machine and trust me unless you've decided to glue everything you
will need a sewing machine beg borrow buy but don't try and hand sew a mistcloak you'll just
die first step make the capelet for a full circle (i ended up trimming mine to about two-thirds of
a circle but you do you) cut yourself a big square fold it in half and then half again make sure the
new baby square is at least 15 inches on each side mine was originally much bigger but learn
from my mistakes it doesn't need to be that big. then take a pin and chalk and some string and
mark a quarter of a circle that has about a 15 inch radius and cut it out cut a little quarter
circle at the corner for your neck but don't worry about making it too small you can always make it
bigger later the radius on the neck online ended up about three inches but just cut according to
how big your neck is then cut a slit from the neck hole to the bottom for the front opening iron down
some seams hem everything and then feel extremely pleased with yourself if this is where you decide
that a full circle is overkill trim the front of your capelet to your satisfaction and then hem
that too you can also fix the neck at this point the simplest way to do this would just be to make
a single semi circle and cut out a hole for your neck and then hem that but i decided to get a
little bit fancy goodness knows why evidently i am overambitious onto the hood which is exactly
what Nemo said when i was trying to cut it out so i went for a really big kind of Jedi style hood
the bigger your hood is the more of the neck it will cover at the back even when your hood is up
which hides a multitude of sins so i would always advise big hoods big hoods are good you don't have
to have two layers to make the hood but i did and i think it looks nicer you figure out what kind
of shape you want your hood to be and you make it as two or four pieces depending i made mine as two
having determined the distance from the hollow of my throat over my head and back down i used
two 45 by 25 inch pieces of fabric to make the hood my template was approximately this shape
but i ended up altering it a bit as it wasn't lying quite how i wanted it so i ironed down
a bunch of seams and then i pinned the pieces of the hood together with the outsides facing
right sides together that's what that means i see it all the time in sewing tutorials and i'm like
sure okay and having sewn around most of the hood but not all of it i then flipped it inside out and
it looked great i then had to pin the hood to the cloak and try and kind of bunch it up and space
it out appropriately so that it would lie neatly and that was kind of a pain having thus achieved
one capelet it needed to be dyed a different color for which i initially used fabric dye in dark gray
the furniture dye was not a great success and so i used about three tablespoons of black dye
on fabric dye to make it darker but not properly black it turned out pretty well i uh quite like
this color i think it looks good anyway caplet now completed i ironed it and tried to figure
out a way to attach a button and buttonhole to my satisfaction i tried to use the sewing machine
it did not work so i just ended up snipping a button hole into it and attaching a button
in the you know old-fashioned hand sewing kind of way this is the buttonhole yeah and uh this
is the button when you attach your ribbons to the front over the top of the buttonhole
don't like stick them down the whole way i had to cut a little hole so that i could
access the button because i accidentally sewed down over the top of the bun whoopsie another
thing that turns this from a boring capelet into a mistcloak the ribbon let me save you
a whole lot of time and effort and explain the actual fastest way to attach ribbons to a missed
cloak uh yeah there are some really dodgy bits. basically what happened to me is i got kind of
bored of sewing all of the very wide ribbons to the cloak and what i decided to do was just
kind of haphazardly attach some and hope that my outer layer of ribbons would would cover any
of the bits that looked bad as you can see if i move these ones out of the way that didn't quite
work at the top there so right you don't see that because uh i kind of fixed it and obviously the
spread out the back so you can see it properly but uh as you can see we've kind of covered that over
so it doesn't look so bad but here's what you do these these are your friend so you get a ribbon
mine had to be approximately the length of my arms stretched out and you get another ribbon of
the same thing you attach them so they're closer together at the top than the bottom this is not
absolutely necessary and then you sew stitch them together down here for about 10 to 12 inches
25 to 30 centimeters you sew these together and then the rest of them just flow freely to the
ground yet another one sew it on sew it on sew it on sew it on so this is a small one which is not
fully attached because i just wanted it to be able to flow but this is you know five or six ribbons
just sewn together at the top like this and then you attach them to the cloak and if you're
at the front for example you can sew them down to the cloak properly if you want them to flow
more freely or cover over a bad looking bit then you can just leave them flowing it's all right
after all when you when you put it on uh as you can see the hood covers multitude of sins we do
make a lot of noise though the first way i tried was to sew down a bunch of individual ribbons
if i hadn't got bored it'd have been fine but well i did and you saw so i had
lots of uh this is 36 millimeter ribbon which is about an inch and a half i think uh so i tried
to do those as like my base layer but then i got bored my idea was that i'd have a lot of ribbons
attached to a single ribbon that i could just sew on but that did not cover the bad parts so
the ribbon chunks were required trust me on this the quickest and most efficient way to do this is
to sew ribbons together in chunks and then attach them because if you do it in a like a little chunk
then you can fit it to the shape of your shoulders basically hot tip when you sew them down don't if
you're attaching them you can sew them most of the way down don't attach them at the bottom
and don't sew them all the way to the bottom of the capelet because once you've got all of
these lovely overlapping ribbons you may still think you know what actually i could use a few
more ribbons sort of fluttering which you can very easily do because you can just attach them
to the inside i have not had to do this because i had so many on the outside because i tried it
two different ways you know but if you fold your outside ribbons up out of the way you can then sew
these to the inside and then there will just be lots of ribbons hanging down and you won't have to
worry about it there is no footage of me sewing the ribbon chunks together which is why i just
explained it to you and the reason that there's no footage is because i did it in about 90 minutes
at the house of the person who owns the sewing machine because i had to return the sewing
machine that day and then i had to get to the vet even as it was i made it to the appointment with
90 seconds to spare and also i broke a needle i had been so careful when it was at my house
i was doing so well and then i broke the needle uh trying to sew down these on the back. there's
one thing that you need to do after this and one thing that you might want to do after this
the thing that you need to do is trim the bottom of the ribbons which works better if you can get
someone else to do it for you or at the very least if you have some kind of dummy that is exactly the
same height as you. the thing that you might want to do is finish the ribbons see how this one is
sort of fraying if you singe the end then it won't do that but obviously there are a lot of ends to
singe so it might take you a while et voila one mistcloak well done you you're probably completely
scunnered with sewing at this point and frankly i don't blame you but by gosh you look amazing if
you're cosplaying as a generic mistborn then you can basically wear whatever you like underneath
your mistcloak but if you're being Vin as i wished to be then you will need a couple of other things
so you'll need a black wig in the later books she tends to wear a dark shirt and dark trousers
i had dark trousers i have a white shirt which i got from armstreet which i really like a purple
scarf as a belt which they sometimes have her in on covers and stuff and bare feet because
i don't even know why there are some very confused looking dog walkers over to my left right now but
hey so i really enjoyed this project even though it was really time consuming and kind of difficult
i have very much enjoyed reading the mistborn series by brandon sanderson
and i'm kind of excited to start reading some of the other cosmere books i hear there's a new one
coming out i hope you enjoyed this very random episode i hope it inspired you to make your own
mistcloak while avoiding all of my mistakes and i will be back on the 1st of november with something
more usual which may or may not involve harrison ford i will see you soon