Luke Skywalker Episode VI Cloak

Big Bird, my oldest son, decided that he wanted to be Luke Skywalker from Episode VI. He has been talking about what he wants for a few weeks now. Saturday afternoon he described in detail what Luke from Episode VI looks like. I finally got it - and had an idea for what to Google. I found a few ideas for what he wanted...Hey I can do this! We were looking at purchased costumes for another character and modifying to be Luke. All of the Star Wars costumes for purchase this year are from the Clone Wars...and that is just not what we wanted.

Here are the basic directions that I used. .

Cloak Instructions

So what does one need to make Luke Skywalker from Ep.VI? From what I have read/and been told by 5 year old Big Bird these are the essentials.

• Black long sleeve shirt - looking for a mock t-shrt because turtle necks are to small for his BIG head.
  
• Black pants - church pants are black
  
• Black 1 1/2 inch belt - need it
  
• Black boots - need them
  
• Light Saber with a green blade - got it!
• Black Glove - I'm sure we have one lonely black glove around here somewhere!
  
• Black Cape - see below for more info
  

I found the directions for a fleece cape that looked fairly easy. I did not feel the need to have the details be exact like some costume makers - this is a Halloween costume!

Sunday I went to JoAnns and started to search for black fabric. I did not want fleece or flannel - they were suggested fabrics. I was also not in favor of wool because of the itch factor. I started looking at a bottomweight fabric - but I was not 100% sure about it. Then I found some suit fabric - I liked this fabric better because it had a better drape than the bottomweight. So I took it to the cutting table and hoped there would be enough fabric...it was 58" so 3 yards would be enough. Guess what? There was EXACTLY 3 yards, whew.

Now comes the hard part...washing the fabric and finding time to sew.

So today during naptime I decided to make the cape, and not do tomatoes...like I should have done. Was I shocked that in 1 nap time I was able to CUT, SEW and TRIM!

I will put together a tutorial as soon as I have some time to get some pics off the camera.