New Look 6227 Pattern Review - A CAPE!
Sometime in January I found myself browsing patterns and I was hypnotized by the cape patterns from New Look. I bought this one and also this one and will probably eventually buy this one! I never thought I was a 'cape person'. I had also recently bought some really beautiful Tahari wool plum speckled coating from Califabrics.com coating and for a lining I used Bemberg rayon in mustard from Mood. I started with 6227 - no hood. I cut a size S, view C. The trick with this fabric that I did not foresee is the directional stripe - I managed to creatively lay it out and cut it so that it made a chevron at the center front and back. Construction is simple, there are only a few pieces. The slits are basically like cutting a welt, if you've done that before, only larger. The only change I made was not to attach the lining at the bottom edge; I'd read a review where this seemed to cause the fabric not to lay right, wh...