Camel Cape (Coat)

Hi!

So today’s DIY is an Easy Breezy Camel Cape (Coat). It’s easy to make and breezy to style. You can also download printable instructions here.

Inspiration:

The inspiration for this DIY cape is sleek and simplistic camel capes. Such as Ralph Lauren’s, Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney and Star Talks camel capes featured below.

What you’ll need:

Coat fabric 2 meters
Bias tape 5 meters
Leather toggle
Bodice pattern
Chalk
50cm long ruler (or use a strip of paper)
Sewing machine
Scissors
Thread

What you’ll need to do:

Fold fabric in half. Place front bodice on raw and back bodice on fold line. Make sure that the shoulders of front bodice and back bodice touch. From where the shoulders meet measure a straight line down the same length as the centre of the front bodice. Using chalk draw a curved line from front bodice to back bodice. Use a ruler as a guide to lengthen the curved line by 50cm and draw new line with chalk
Cut along the newly curved line. Cut along neckline of bodices, meeting at to shoulder. Cut a 35cm straight line down from low armhole of front bodice
With right sides together stitch shoulders to neck line (blue lines in diagram)
Cover all raw edges with bias tape (green lines in diagram). Stitch on leather toggle, roughly 10cm down from neckline (purple ovals).

Tahh Dahh!