Easy Harry Potter Robe with Faux Hood (DIY tutorial)
Let me guess: your child got an invitation to a Harry Potter birthday party and you have to sew a Harry Potter robe. (Because your darling child wants one and of course mommy makes it.) And yes, the party is already tomorrow and you are googling like a crazy person to find an easy and quick tutorial. At least that's what I was doing few weeks ago.
I googled and googled and turned Pinterest upside down but I didn't find any search results that would have solved my problem: how to sew the **ing Harry Potter robe right now. Just before my meltdown I figured out how to do a super easy but showy robe with faux hood.
So here you are Internet, you're welcome! All you need is a dark fabric (mine was wool) & ribbons.
This easy and fast robe is a robe with faux hood.
I didn't want to do "just" a cape, Harry Potter is a wizard not a super hero. Harry flies with a broom not with a cape, but I was not going to sew a full robe with sleeves. Not enough time, not easy enough. I wanted to do a robe with hood but realised I had made only one hood before - when I was eleven.
So I needed an easy way out and figured out how to sew this faux hooded robe with wizard twist. Finally I figured it out. Here we go! (And you’re welcome.)
Easy Harry Potter Robe with Faux Hood (DIY tutorial)
Like I said this robe is superduper easy to make. Just cut a huge square from the fabric, make the hem round and fold the faux hood. Finish the hem and sides, sew ribbons to faux hood and continue those ribbons to strings. Voila! In case this didn't cleared the clever shortcut to this easy-robe-heaven I made more specific instructions below.
Step 1: Cut and fold!
I had a nice wool fabric in my stash. I started cutting a large square folding it like the picture above.
After that I had to cut the hem round. I did that with a piece of yarn and chalk and used them as a giant compass to draw the hem round. Then I cut it.
Then I folded the opposite corner and made the "faux hood" to fit the measurements of the child.
So easy! Then Step 2: Final touches!
After cutting and folding I finished the hem and other side with decorative zig zag. I left the selvage unfinished because it was really nice as it was.
I looked through my ribbon stash and found a perfect pair for a Gryffindor robe: red and gold.
Then I marked with chalk the point where the faux hood fold was (in both sides) and sewed the faux hood triangle with the ribbons to the mark. Then kept on sewing only with the ribbons to make them one ribbon (both sides).
After that I sewed few stitches back and forth nearby the fold marks. That way I ensured the fold stays in place.)
There! Beholder of this luxurious Harry Potter robe is ready for the birthday party and you can go to sleep in time. Easy and fast!
Lumos!
