Hey guys!
I'm Alex from Sanzu Fabrications, and with this video I'm going to wrap up my Marth Cosplay
series by showing you how I made the cape.
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I have to admit, I've been both dreading and looking forward to this part for weeks.
The final cape is actually my second attempt.
I used two different techniques, but I'll only cover the one that actually worked.
The first step was patterning the seal on the back.
This required use of my superpower: math.
I calculated the percentage of the cape that the seal took up in order to determine how
big my pattern should be.
Fortunately, I found an image of the seal online.
I'll provide a link to it in the description.
I altered the image on my iPad to make it the size I wanted-- about 34 inches wide.
When you're doing this, don't forget to reverse this, because when you transfer the image,
it'll be mirrored.
Then I rasterized the image in the Raster app to make it printable and printed the oversized
design on to regular 8 1/2 by 11 inch computer paper.
Don't forget about these papers because we will come back to them.
Next I got a piece of light blue cotton and two packages of Heat N Bond UltraHold.
Heat N Bond is acts like a glue that holds together two pieces of fabric.
This kind of technique is known as an appliqué, and it's usually used for much smaller designs.
I had to use two packs to cover enough area for the entire design.
I ironed these to the cotton, making sure to have as little space between them as possible.
Once the Heat N Bond had cooled and was secure, I took out the printed design.
I used a spray adhesive to glue the design to the paper side of the Heat N Bond.
And I used scissors and an X-Acto knife to cut out the entire design.
I cut...
And cut...
And cut...
When I finally had the entire design cut out, I cut out a 52 inch long piece of blue cotton.
I marked the location of where I wanted the design to be placed, and my removed the paper
backing.
I centered it on the marking and very carefully smoothed the design out.
With my iron, I carefully passed over the design to activate the Heat N Bond and adhere
the design to the cape.
Out of consideration, I did not include the 2 hours of video of me ironing...
Even though it was super relating.
I cut out two small strips of blue fabric and hemmed them.
I honestly didn't bother to measure these because they were just cut off the bottom
of my "failed cape attempt."
The size really isn't too important either, and you'll see why in a bit.
When the design was all set, I cut out a piece of burgundy cotton in the same size of the
cape.
Then I made a giant pillow case!
Well, kinda.
I placed the blue side of the cape and the burgundy side together, with the right sides
of the fabric facing each other.
I stitch around the two sides and the bottom to attach the two pieces of cotton together.
I then turned it inside out so the design was facing outward.
I folded those two little strips of fabric into loops and tucked them into the top corners
of the cape.
I turned in the raw edges of the fabric and top stitched all the way around the perimeter.
This closed up the entire cape, secured the loops, and ensured my cape wouldn't randomly
separate and turn into a funky bag-balloon thing.
Now this cape spans the entire width of the bolt, which was 44 inches, but I needed to
compress it to 12 inches, so it would fall neatly from between my shoulders.
So I took the top of the cape, arranged it into pleats and stitched over it.
This allowed me to control how my cape fell, and how much of the design would be visible.
Remember those fun little loops I made?
Well, I slipped some carabiners into the loops and now I can easily clip the cape onto the
O-rings that hold up my shoulder pauldrons.
Nifty, right?
But wait!
There's more!
Look at this reference picture.
Do you notice anything different about his cape?
Yeah, it wraps around his next and ties to the gem on his breastplate.
Well, I'm a bit of a control freak, so I wanted to control exactly how the fabric would fall.
That's why I pleated the cape, AND that's why I'm making the neck portion separately.
It was actually pretty easy.
I took a 24 inch by 24 inch square of blue cotton and sewed the top and bottom sides
together to make a loop.
I then carefully pinned the open ends together and sewed those up.
This created an infinity scarf.
If you're not familiar with the concept, just think of a donut.
That's pretty much what I made... a big, blue, flaccid, fabric donut.
You see, this fun little thing rests around my neck, covering the clips holding up the
cape.
Since its not actually connected to it, the weight of the cape won't pull it back.
That means I can place it, adjust it to be as fluffy as I want, and it'll stay put.
It's also much safer, as I don't need to worry about having my cape get caught on anything
and choking me.
Remember kids, choking is bad.
Ah, but there's the problem of the gem.
Well, since I needed to make an opening through my entire scarf, I found a place in the scarf
far from the perpendicular seam.
I stretched this section into my embroidery hoop and sewed a 3 and a half inch button
hole into the scarf.
Once It was stitched up, I cut it open with an X-Acto knife, and slipped the gem through
it.
Remember how I said the cape wouldn't pull the scarf against my neck?
Well, by using this infinity scarf, the weight of the cape also won't pull on the gem setting.
With all of that done, I finished my cape!
I love how the infinity scarf portion came out, but honestly I would love to get more
experience with my embroidery machine and revisit the seal on the back of the cape.
The appliqué is nice, but I feel like I can do a lot better now.
That will have to wait though.
For now, Marth's costume is done, and now I can get back to working on Ike's.
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