I Hand Sewed a Majestic Winter Wool Cloak 

Thank you so much for watching! Do you feel inspired now to sew a winter cloak as well? P.S. Captions will be updated later on today.

Everyone needs a good cloak… it’s a truth universally acknowledged, having the detached hood is always good as well

I absolutely love the belt buckle as a closure! It's dramatic, but works so well with the hefty collar :) Also loving how this cloak pairs with the bashlik into even warmer set!

I love the idea of using a belt buckle that looks like the sun for a cloak closure. It definitely has Celtic vibes. --Lyssa WA, USA

Another great video, as always! I'm ready for the cloak to make a mainstream comeback!

That variegated silk works extremely well with the plaid!

Thanks so much for sharing this project Vasi. The final result is astonishing. Great job. 😊

The belt buckle is a lovely cherry on top of this lovely cloak! I love the nice greens in the cloak & lining 🌿🍃

So lovely! How wonderful!

Seeing you used silk, I wondered what the people of the past used for interfacing. Fusible fleece and other types of iron-on interfacings are relatively new inventions, but surely the need for adding structure and stability for garments arose a long time ago.

Beautiful!

It looks sooo warm and cozy!

just beautiful

Wow! Thank you for the tips! Beautiful!

Very cool 😀

Love it.

Very good video, thanks. Looks lovely.

Very darn nice!!

Gorgeous! That turned out magnificent! The colors look so good together !

I simply love your videos! Your cloak is gorgeous, excellent work ❤️ Thank you for sharing your masterpieces with us!

It looks so cool!

I love seeing you do this by hand!!! Amazing 🤩

Your finishing work is getting so lovely

Beautiful cloak! I especially love the silk velvet lining with the wool!

Yet another delight to watch, V! I love your clever solutions when making your garments behave as you envisioned.

Such a beautiful wool. And silk.

you do such gorgeous and thoughtful work.

It goes really well with the dress you are wearing with it! Looks great!

Oh my goodnes gracious! That looks gorgeus! I am in love with cloaks and video like this just warms my heart.

It's beautiful!

So pretty!

So inspiring!! Beautiful video as always

Those cartridge pleats are SATISFYING to look at! I am loving your work with winter garments!

That looks so good! I love the aesthetic of it, and it just looks so warm and cozy! You did a great job.

The production and final product itself is so lovely, your videos are always nice to wash

I’m in the process of making a cloak out of some beautiful teal velvet drapes. The lining is made of insulated drapes and I’m running into a problem with bulk at the collar. Watching your video has given me an idea of how to solve this dilemma. I machine stitched and then pulled the threads but I think a larger running stitch would probably work better. I’d love to make a nice wool cloak but besides the fabric being incredibly expensive, I can’t even find it around here. I’d have to order online. I really do enjoy your videos. I’ve learned a lot and they are inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing them with us.

It looks absolutely gorgeous with or without the hood xxxxxxxxx

Smashing work V! You are so very talented, resourceful, and creative. The amount of work that you put into your wardrobe is incredible, not to mention the video/editing/historical accuracy bits! Keep at it, you are real treasure

Brava!

Another beauty!

Yes! Cloaks for all 😎

Sooo beautiful!!!! This is perfect for the cold weather, it looks so warm! And the video too, so beautifully made, as always V! I pressed the bell to get all notifications, since RU-vid decided not to show your video and I had to seek it manually, anyway I hope it works now. So sad, ugh RU-vid! But anyway, your videos are always wonderful and you make beautiful things. 💚

I can _feel_ just how warm you must be in this cloak just by watching you wear it. Also it's absolutely epic, especially with the bashlik

Ooh it looks stunning! And with that wonderful music, so dramatic !

Absolutely gorgeous... I truly love it , it's beautiful 💚💛💚 Caroline from Canada.

The wool fabric is so beautiful, not only in color but in quality and strength. IThe cloak turned out absolutely lovely and looks great with the hood-scarf. I imagine some of my dolls would look very fine in such an item. Thank you as always for great inspiration and I hope things are working out for you!

Gorgeous 😍

Love it

this is so cool

Love the look of the light colored cloak over the darker dress. Such a pretty contrast and a welcome reprieve from the usual black/grey/dark blue. Did you consider using something like horsehair hemming tape as interlining for the collar?

What a fun and quick project. I loved how it came out. It looks like it should keep you nice and warm against the bite of the winter cold. The colors compliment your skin tone so well. Its so pretty on you 😍 I made a cloak once. It wasn't anything this nice. Just some cheap corduroy I got from a discount bin and a simplicity pattern. Since it was for the renaissance fair, in the middle of summer I didn't line it. I broke the needle in my sewing machine and had to hem it by hand. Nothing fancy, but its was functional. It was a pretty easy project for a then novice garment maker.

Go raibh míle maith agat; thanks a million!

I love the way you lined it and didnt bring the lining all the way up!!

Hello, I'm new to sewing so it is a bit of a challenge. I have the patterns for a cape and it's my current process, will take a little time as I don't have a sewing machine and will sew it manually. After watching your video I felt inspired, because I was thinking about quitting. My sister is an expert dress maker and told me to remember that in the past there were no sewing machines so I could do it, no excuses. And after your inspiring video, I will definitely do it. And as you said, here in the UK I might be able to wear it in spring. Thank you!!! 🙂

I love it its so flashy

Very nice! You did a great job! I recently made a cloak for my daughter, but I couldn't find wool at the fabric store so I used warm fleece and lined it with thinner fleece. I hand sewed mine as well because that is how I like to sew, and don't know how to use a sewing machine. I can post a photo of it for you somewhere if you'd like. After she wore it to work, three of her friends have asked me to make them one, so I may have other ones to show eventually.

Can you please dedicate an entire video to wearing a cloak in the wind

That is very beautiful and you look fabulous. I haven’t been able to bring myself to sew since my mom recently passed , she made quilts,but I know I will start again

I need a cloak! LIKE RIGHT. NOW. 😀 Yours looks absolutely amazing

Clooooooak, cloak cloak cloak! After my finished bashlyk I want a cloak too but I need way more wool. Hehe

Thank you so much, Ms. V. This is truly stunning work. Well done. You know, Cos Tube may want to start thinking about unionizing. You see, we live in Centretown (downtown) Ottawa, so right now we are literally surrounded by Nazi and 'confederate' flag enthusiast who have dominated the city for almost two weeks for an anti-mask/vax occupation. There's a huge spike in hate crimes - they're parked in the middle of our Rainbow District. Anyone with a hijab is either in hiding or is forced to walked through the blocked intersections to get to their Starbucks job. My husband was attacked on Monday afternoon. The list goes on and on. BUT... My main point in this doom list of woes - the "protesters" have a large number of live stream channels on the You Tube (they're the only way I can figure out the safest route to the grocery / pharmacy about 30 minutes away by walking; there are no buses). You Tube is no longer allowing me to flag comments in their live-chat like "Hang Trudeau (the Prime Minister) from the Crane" in front of Parliament Hill, "blood will run in the street", "it's fun to beat people with bats", "if peaceful protest doesn't work, then burn the city down". That's just a sampling of what they are saying. Been flagging every day since the "protesters" got here. Yesterday You Tube wouldn't let me post yet another string of threats to the government and to us. Apparently there is a glass ceiling for "imminent threat" reports. And yet. You're under a 90 day suspension for raising funds for a (Re)Housing charity. And the "Protest" channels are making hand over fist in donations. Someone, or a whole bunch of someone's, may one to point this out to the people in charge of the algorithms... You Tube is making money off of terror and hate crimes. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi

Beautiful!

Beautiful cloak. The gather and collar of any cloak is always a pain in the bahookie, trying to keep it from looking heavy and inelegant. Probably a wise move to only line it partially, which also keeps the weight at the bottom. I have to say that a well draped plaid or arisaid feels less constrictive and has a more adaptable usage, plus the joy of not having to sew it 😁

Cartridge pleats! 👍

That is so lovely! I was giveth a long wool gray cape today. The tag says made in Paris, France. It has 10 small holes. Not sure how to fix them. I cut out a pattern tonight to hopefully make a lining for it. I want to do it in flannel. It has no hood. It drapes beautifully over the shoulders and is ankle length. I've never made a lining before. I was planning on sewing it up and then just tacking it at seems? Leaving the bottom hang free. I though I would hand embroider the edges around neck and down the front. Any advice would be nice. I thought I might look for a King size flannel sheet set. If at Thrift Store it would be neat. I think it must be cut on the bias. I love watching your videos. Thank you

*THE NEXT TIME* you do a large standing collar - you need to back BOTH pieces of fabric with heavy linen canvas, excluding the hemming, fold over the canvas and sew. If you want it to be very compliant and malleable - you need to pad stitch the canvas to the collar - you can also create shape this way - pad stitching is way easier and quicker than you think

Very well done! Especially the collar. What music did you use at the end? It's lovely.

Your cloak is lovely! Tbh, I feel inspired to continue my current dress expansion (not new clothes). That said, I tend to prefer coats to cloaks, and have quite a few of both, for autumn/spring, and winter

This looks absolutely stunning! Would you mind sharing the thread you use for this project and the needle size?

U look fabulous.... I mean u always do.

Good to see you back again! Missed you last Thursday! I have so much to say! Okay, first, the cloak is so beautiful and it goes perfectly with the bashlik (spelling?). I love that you made two separate, complimentary garments for ample customization! For the collar, why did you go for boning instead of horsehair? I’ve never made anything that needed to be stiff like that, but I’ve always been told that they use horsehair canvas to stiffen collars and lapels in coats; what was different about this garment that required something else? ALSO. Your hair at the end. It seems to be a twisted bun in the center with a braid circling around it. I’ve seen this a lot in mid-19th-century photos and fashion plates. How did you achieve it?

You are a braver woman than me to 1) do so many cartridge pleats on heavy wool and 2) do the whole thing by hand.

allthough totally not historical i have a handmade wool jedi cloak and that thing is so warm and comfy !

This is incredible. Can I ask what temperature it's warm enough for? I'm toying with the idea of interlining for warmth, or even making a quilted version, but I'd like to maintain the drape.

That cloak is super duper uber dreamy. But how do you press your fabric? I assume pressing always goes with ironing, when one glides the hot iron over the fabric?

It turned out amazing! I recently also made a cloak from wool! I was wondering if you have some tips for ironing wool? My grandma told me to iron it with a damp towel on top but when I tried that the wool went all fluffy and the part I tried it out on feels more like fleece than wool! So now I didn't iron the rest of the seams at all..

Its beautiful V and looks so simple! You look beautiful in it as well I do have plans to make a cloak/cape for next winter but I don't know what kind of wool to get.. Where did you get the closure for that?

Эх, у меня уже раскроенный и сметанный лежит, ждёт своего часа, но я срочно шью бальное платье🤣 Идея с пряжкой просто шикарная, и смотрится очень красиво

Dp you havs any measurements ? And how did you make the hood?

It's not perfectly clean, the seams aren't all perfectly straight, some parts aren't lined up perfectly, you should have stiffened the collar before sewing it on; but this makes it so charming. And it's encouraging, it makes me believe that I could do something like this as well and it doesn't hav to be perfect to be great. Wanting to make things perfect is often what keeps me from attempting them in the first place. This is encouraging

Hi! What are some sewing books you would recomend?

Is there a video of you making the talma or a pattern?

Would the cloak be suitable for riding? I love my riding habit jacket but its a bit hard to wear because of all the beading making it rather heavy.

Niiiiice. Sell a pattern :)

Lost my mom Sunday 6th😟😔

Are u wearing a crinoline?

Beautiful!