Plaid cape frankenpattern
I have wanted a cape since they were heavily featured in my first ever Burda issue, 08-2009. However, It wasn't unti this winter that I actually got around to create my ideal cape. First, I had a lot of criteria: it couldn't have droopy bits that would get caught in car doors or dragged through soup it had to have some fitting so it didn't look like a tent on my large frame (my waist is my only narrow part it had to be warm enough to suffer through an early spring yard duty or a stint at arena as a skating mom pockets! So this Burda 08-2009 pattern provided the "sleeves" for my cape. This Vogue 8674 pattern was used for the body. I used the longer length of view C. I detest the sleeves on the Vogue, as all I could think about was all the things I would drag them through and get them caught in. However, the body is nicely fitted and I like the high collar. Here is what I ended up with: For the back view I decided t...