I think you are making this way more difficult for yourself than you need to. There are several good hooded cloak patterns from the major pattern publishers available on the market. You could also check e-bay if you are not in a hurry. I have a couple of different patterns and have had great success with them. Sorry, I am at work and cannot pull up pattern numbers for you, but I am sure that they are fairly easy to find. :) ~Kimberley -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:24:15 EDT Subject: Re: [h-cost] cloak hoods
In a message dated 5/4/2006 11:28:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How could such a pattern look like? ************************* Well....that's why you pay for a pattern if you can't figure it out. But if you really want to know....it's on page 30 of Janet Arnold's 1st volume of "Patterns of Fashion". I suggest you take a rectangle of fabric the length you want the opening and the width being the depth you want the hood and start draping it on a person...with a head....since dress dummies don't have heads, as I'm sure you know. It's basically a rectangle arched over the head, with the short sides gathered or pleated into the neck of the cloak and meeting CB...then the back sewn up a bit [ to about height of the crown of the head...8" to 10" I think for a big hood....but it's only like 6" in Arnold] and the rest pleated or gathered closed, fanning out from one point. To reduce some bulk in the back pleating you can make that back side of the rectangle shorter than the front [open] side...which makes it now a trapezoid with the short sides slanting to the CB. Did that make any sense? _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
