Making a Jedi Robe - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Sep 15
  

  jedifriend

  • The Jedi Robe

      
     
    1. Buy some extra wide brown polyester fabric. 72" wide (or however wide your arms are stretched out). You will need a lot. Buy a whole bolt of it. Go to Wal-Mart. I got my fabric there from a bargain bin for $2/yard. If you can't find fabric wide enough, you will have to add extensions to the sleeves.
     
    2. Figure out how tall you are at the shoulder. Double that number and cut that much fabric off of the bolt. If you are 5 feet tall (60") at the shoulder, cut 10 feet (120") off of the bolt.
     
    3. Spread the fabric out on the floor folding it o
  • • er on itself width-wise.
     
    • Lay down on the fabric with your arms stretched out and your shoulders at the fold in the fabric. Have someone trace around you. Don't trace too clo
  • • se to the body or else the robe will not flow right.
     
    • Pin the two layers of fabric together along the trace line.
     
    • Cut the traced shape out of the fabric about an inch outside of the trace line.
     
    • Sew along the trace lines.
     
    • Turn the robe inside out.
     
    • Make the front opening of the robe by cutting a line straight up the middle of the front of the robe to the shoulder fold. Make sure you only cut up the front of the robe.
     
    • Try the robe on to make sure the measurements are OK.
     
    • Hem the edges along the bottom of the robe, the ends of the
  • sleeves, and the edges of the front opening. If you don't hem these edges, your robe will look really cheap and you will end up with a lot of little threads all over the house.

  • This part was a little tricky to figure out. It took a few paper mock-ups to figure out how to make a hood shape. In the end, it was simple: one rectangular piece of fabric, folded in half, with one side stitched up.

     
     
    1. Cut a 1 foot by 2 foot rectangle of fabric. (Some readers have mentioned that this size hood seems too small. For a larger hood use a 16" by 32" or larger piece of fabric.)
     
    2. Fold it in half to make a 1 foot square piece of fabric. (16" square if you used a bigger piece of fabric.)
     
    3. Sew one edge from the fold to the end.
     
    4. Turn the hood inside out.
     
      

  3 more annotations...

• 24 Jan 14
  

  Alfonso E.M.

  disfraces costume jedi robe túnica

• 30 Oct 13
  

  Erin Flage

  costume

• 04 Jul 06
  

  scifi clothing

Would you like to comment?

Join Diigo for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member.