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I was trying to use these instructions for making a cloak for my son's birthday, but they are for fabric that is 60 inches wide and the fabric I am thinking about using are 45 inches wide. Store bought patterns will show you how to cut different widths but his one doesn't. Do you sewing gurus have any idea how much yardage I would need and how I would cut it using 45 inch wide fabric? Thanks!
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It looks like it will just be shorter. Is it vital that it is 5 ft (more or less?).
Do you have any cheap fabric you can make a mock one out of first, that is also 45 inches? Cause then you can see if the 45 inches will work, just be shorter...kwim?
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Charlotte,
Michelle is good with this stuff.
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What I'd do is to draw it out on paper first.. then you take your 1/4 circle and fold that in half.. that will let you place that on a smaller piece of fabric.. also leave a bit of a seam allowance on the folded side. Then your cape will be sewn out of 4 pieces instead of just 2.
make sense?
and if that's the case.. then how much fabric you need will depend on if there's any pattern you're trying to get to lay nicely but simply you could probably get it out of 4 lengths of the cape.. because there'll be extra fabric near the neck that you could get the hood parts out of.
so if it's 60 inches long.. 4 times 60 is 240 inches or 6 and 2/3 yards
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If you want it shorter and the 45 inches is long enough.. then you just change your string length for making your quarter circle to 45 inches so that the cape is the length of the width of your fabric.. and you'd only need 90 inches (2.5 yards) plus enough for the hood and such.. so you could probably make it with 3 yards or there abouts.
amazing the difference being shorter makes huh? 
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I know that he would prefer it to be a full length cape. His neck to ankle measurement is 49".
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well then doing what I said above in making it in four pieces.. you can do and reduce it to his length and save some fabric (remember to allow for a hem)
If your fabric does not have a one way design.. You can also likely over lap the pieces.. like if you lay the first piece down at the end of the fabric length.. you could start the next one with the neck toward the neck of the first and while they won't sit side by side fully.. you could probably save 1/3-1/2 the length of the cape in that manner.
So let's say 50 inches so it's full length but not draggin on the ground (once you hem it).. You might be able to get the whole thing out of 5 yards.
Figuring the overlap will save you 33-50 inches.. and 4 lengths is 200 inches.. minus 33 (or 50).. plus hood.. 13x10.25 inches.. so let's see 4 hood pieces.. the shorter side of the hood will fit 4 pieces on the width of the 45 inch fabric.. so you need 13 inches for that. So you can take away 20-37 inches from the 200..
163-180 inches of fabric or.. about 4 2/3- 5 yds of 45 inch fabric.
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