Classic Red Riding Hood Cape Pattern

Halloween Costumes

Need a cape and only have $10 and 3 hours? This pattern is easy to do.

Sewing patterns

Will keep the chill from nipping, but not the wolves. This cape has a video tutorial with a FREE sewing pattern. It’s only six steps – looks DIY easy! Love this fleece sewing Project Red Riding Hood Cape Pattern.

Sewing

Will keep the chill from nipping, but not the wolves. This cape has a video tutorial with a FREE sewing pattern. It’s only six steps – looks DIY easy! Love this fleece sewing Project Red Riding Hood Cape Pattern.

Halloween

Halloween sewing is hands down my absolute favorite! This year for Halloween, I got to pick Em’s costume. I was hoping to do coordinating costumes for my kids, but when A decided he wanted to be Superman I decided to scratch that idea, I just couldn’t get excited about a Lois Lane costume for her. And since she doesn’t really have an opinion on her costume yet the decision was left to me! I decided on Little Red Riding Hood for her, partly because I was Little Red Riding Hood once when I was little and it was one of my most favorite costumes, but mostly I picked it because I thought she would make the cutest Little Red! For her costume, I made her THIS gingham dress. I felt like a Little Red Riding Hood costume gave me the freedom to make any dress I wanted really, there are so many different variations of Little red, ones that wear red dresses, ones that wear black corsets, ones that wear grey dresses…So really she just needs a dress and a red hooded cape. I chose to do a gingham with some eyelet trim and I love love how it turned out. Then I made her cape. It is red (of course) on the outside and I lined with a vintage looking fabric that is cream colored with little red flowers. And finished it off with a little toggle to keep it on. More details on how I made the cape are at the end of this post! And to finish off her costume, I picked up a basket at Hobby Lobby for Little Red to carry all her goodies for Granny (or her candy for trick-or-treating). And Little Red Riding Hood is ready to head off into the forest alone to take some goodies to her poor sick Granny….OK wait, who sends their kid off into a forest alone where she could get eaten by a wolf?! I think we will be sticking to supervised trick-or-treating in a wolf free zone:) Although, A has informed me that I shoud dress at the wicked wolf, and he says that I have to wear a costume if I want to go trick-or-treating with him…we’ll see. Alright, one more photo of my adorable Little Red and I will get on to the cape tutorial! Want to make a hooded cape? Here is how I made mine! You will need: Fabric for the outside of the cape, red if you are making little red but this cape could be used for lots of costumes…Like a vampire, Harry Potter, you could even modify it a bit to make a Frozen Anna cape. As far as how much you need, that depends on the size you want to make, I used 1 1/4 yard for my 2 year old Fabric for the lining, the same amount as the outer fabric Something to fasten
the cape, I used a toggle, but you could use something like a ribbon to tie or a button and fabric or elastic loop. The cape is made from a big half circle. Determine the what the finished length you want your cape and then add 1\

Sewing for Kids {tutorials, patterns and inspiration}

Learn how to sew a cape with hood with this easy sewing project. This is a two- in- one cape sewing pattern, that is reversible.

DIY and crafts

Need a cape and only have $10 and 3 hours? This pattern is easy to do.

Sew What?

Will keep the chill from nipping, but not the wolves. This cape has a video tutorial with a FREE sewing pattern. It’s only six steps – looks DIY easy! Love this fleece sewing Project Red Riding Hood Cape Pattern.