Little Red Riding Hood

My baby got me a sewing machine for my birthday this year. I have no real experience with sewing machines other than playing with my grandma's old school one when I was a little girl. So I really had no clue how to use the sewing machine... at all. I had to find youtube videos to learn how to set everything up and how to sew basics of the basics.

my new toy :)

Anyways, so I was planning to sew something very basic as my first sewing project. But with Halloween around the corner, I decided to sew part of my Halloween costume: Little Red Riding Hood's cape (thanks to Sarah for the idea). I got the pattern from fleecefun.com. It is a pretty simple pattern. All there is to do is just follow the instructions... (which I apparently sucks at... haha).

The pattern takes 30 pages. The gray border overlaps from one sheet to the next, so cut off the excess white border and put it together.

The pattern consists of 3 parts, 1 for the hood, 1 for back of the cape, and 1 for front/side of the cape. There are three choices for the length of the cape. I picked the middle length.
Now cut the outline from the assembled pattern and we have this:

Now use cloth pins and pin the paper to the cloth. Cut out two of the hood and front/side cape. For the back piece, fold the cloth in half and line the pattern against the fold according to the instruction. So I ended up with 2 hoods, 2 sides, and 1 big back piece.

So you see the little black triangles in the pattern in the picture above? Well, the instructions clearly says to cut little wedges OUT, as in away from the pattern, as in so there will be little triangles pointing OUT of the pattern. Well, yeah, I completely did not do that. I forgot all about it and just went straight through. HAHA. Those little wedges are meant to help me put the hood to the cape later on, but i managed to figure it out without them. So I guess it wasnt too bad lol.

Sewing the hood:
Line the two pieces of hood and pin the curved side. Sew with .5 inches seam allowance... says the instruction. Did I mention I am a sewing noob? Did I?? Well, my seam came out to be like... 2 inches... HAHA. But no worries, I just cut off the excess seam afterwards.

Fold the straight edge just a little bit and hem it using zig zag stitch. I had a bit of trouble at first because its such a narrow space to sew, but once I got it down it went pretty smoothly.

Now sew the cape:

Basically just line the two side pieces next to the main back piece and sew together. Then we get this:

Now just line the hood up with the cape. Pin down, sew together, add a cute button and its all done!

front

back

I am very pleased with how well it turned out, especially for my very first sewing project. I love the over sided hood and the big button that holds it all together. I used fleece like the instruction suggested, which will hopefully keep me warm when I am out walking around on Halloween night! Now I just need to find a dress to go with it (no I will not sew my own dress...)

Special thanks to qristie who helped me cut out my pattern <3 br="br" nbsp="nbsp"> || [ 雪子 ] ||