Hokie cape

Its no secret I am a Hokie. While some may have no idea what is, it means I am a Virginia Tech alumnus. We are the Virginia Tech Hokies. However, I'm living in the Boston area- rare opportunity to get some VT football up here. However, every other, the Hokies come up to play Boston College. So of course, I needed to deck the kids out in full Hokie gear for the game. 

So I expanded upon the capes that I made for K for Halloween and designed her a Virginia Tech Hokies cape for the game. I created a maroon cape-let for the top and orange for the main part of the cape. This time I made it a little thinner near the arms so instead of being a circle, it was more of an oval. 

Once sewed together, I attached orange and maroon ribbons for the tie closure. Then I added silver glitter and maroon glitter VTs and curlicues around the cape for some sparkle. 

I took scrap orange fleece and cut out a VT logo and glued it to the back. Then I outlined it with silver glitter glue. The glitter glue sealed the VT to the fleece. I added a few silver jewels around the back to catch the light and add some sparkle. Alumni Stadium at BC is open air meaning that we would be out in the sun for the game and the glitter and jewels would really sparkle.

The back of the VT cape

Halloween princess cape

The snow is starting to fall here. There's a storm coming but we've got food and water, so we're just cuddling up and having some nice quiet time. I'm taking some time to post a few things I've been working on lately.

Princess K with the short version of the cape for the indoor Halloween party

As anyone in New England, or anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon line knows, no matter what your Halloween costume is, it is most likely going to be covered up with a winter coat. This is especially true if you are planning to be a princess, fairy, or some other skimpy costume. What's the fun in that?

This year, I made K a princess cape out of fleece that coordinated with her Cinderella dress. She had a few indoor Halloween parties to go to so at first I took the top collar of the cape as a separate cape-let.

To start I made a small circle out of soft fleece, cut a neck hole and one slice for the opening. Then i drew curlicues and dots with silver glitter glue. On a few dots, I added blue or silver jewels. To fasten it to her royal highness, I just used a safety pin by the neck. She loved it and was the talk of the party.


For Halloween night which was chilly, I added a full length cape under the cape-let. The full length cape was cut from 1 1/2 yards of fleece. Again it was just a simple circle. Then I hand-sewed the capelet to the cape. It only took about 15 minutes to sew and it wasn't neat. I was rushing to get it done. But the stitching didn't show at all . I made two slits near her upper arm for her arms to come out the cape but still be covered by the cape-let. It kept her arms warm, but allowed her more freedom of movement for trick-or-treating and walking around.

The final version all decorated

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I made an additional cape to go with her Princess Merida (from the movie Brave) dress that she wore to the Halloween Parade. The design was the same, except I used gold glitter glue and jewel-toned jewels (reds, blues, greens, golds, etc). Instead of curlicues, I did a simple celtic X and O pattern which matched her dress.

The Princess Merida cape (from the movie Brave) for the Halloween Parade

The jeweled back of the Brave cape