Walsall Wonderland

I have recently ordered the cloak clasp necessary for my newest sewing creation, my faux fur cape.

A few weeks ago when my local craft store was having their annual 50% off fabric sale, I bought enough faux fur and satin to make and line a pretty little faux fur cape. I had initially wanted to go with a clasp of a natural material, wood, bone, or horn, but couldn’t find anything right anywhere. So I decided I had to go with either fabric or metal, and as fabric would look very odd on the faux fur, I finally settled on a metal clasp. This metal clasp, to be precise, which I ordered yesterday morning.

I am not starting the project until I have all the pieces at my disposal… well, okay I may to the pinning and cutting, but no further than that until I have the clasp. I have everything else here, in a big plastic bag. waiting to be made, and I am pretty darn excited. I started making these about a year ago, and I have made a red one out of gaberdine with black faux fur trim and collar, a colour combination suggested by my fiancé which looks amazing, and a grey one out of wool flannel with white embroidery down the fron and on the lapels and back. If I had the chance to do that one over, I would have picked a different colour for the embroidery, maybe a nice grey silk thread, but I still like this one so very much.

Sewing and Knitting both have their pros and cons. For instance, sewing is more immediate, you get a final product in a much shorter time than you do with knitting. However, you will experience a lot more physical pain, with all the bending for pinning, cutting, and then the actual sewing! But with Knitting, you get to sit somewhere quite comfortably, but I take forever to finish anything.

With all this talk of capes, today’s knitting pattern is also going to be a cape! Novak from Berroco, in this case.