Red
So what happens when you combine Craft on Thursday with Photograph on Friday? It’s another go with Guest-Photographers-Daughter-And-Son and a view through their lens.
My time in the US was not entirely without craft. During our family holiday to Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, Daughter-Kate was completely captivated by a long red woolen cape. I was completely paralysed by the $99 price tag. And as well-intentioned-mothers are sometimes apt to do, I said placatingly, ‘Don’t worry dear, I can always make you one.’
I was not allowed to forget my words.
So, during the exceedingly hot and humid Midwestern summer, I sat in my inlaws’ cool basement and crafted a long red cape. ‘Wherever will she wear it?’ I grumbled to myself, ‘All this work for a whim.’ But those words are easily forgotten.
What joy a few yards of fabric and thread make in the life of a child, who imagines herself to be…
Red Riding Hood or
Dracula or
Superman (while in the hands of her brother)
Better get that sewing machine as I foresee a second cape in the making.
i agree…it is amazing what a few yards of fabric will turn a child into. it is a beautiful red cape. well done!
07 Sep 2007 at 3:02 am
oh. . . . SPLENDID!!!
07 Sep 2007 at 3:42 am
Dude, my mom was crafty, but I never got a red cape. Tell your daughter I’m insanely jealous!
07 Sep 2007 at 4:38 am
I’m jealous as well. I always wanted a heavy (lined) cloak when I was little.. I still want one now, espcially after seeing your daughter looking so stunning with the purple flowers behind her.. oh, the mystery of it all !
07 Sep 2007 at 10:19 am
I made capes for my kids out of old silk skirts. When my eldest son’s was totally shreded from being worn so much I made him a Hogwarts style one that he still wears to this day. Yup. Capes are a good thing for a kid.
07 Sep 2007 at 11:09 am
Dude, that is awesome. That would have totally made little-girl-me deliriously happy. There’s so much…promise and mystery in a long cape.
07 Sep 2007 at 6:40 pm
it’s a good thing that my son doesn’t look at your blog - he’d chew my ear off in pursue of a nice cape! he has one without the hood with the hogwarts symbol painted on - but of course the hood would make it so much more fun… halloween - here I come!
08 Sep 2007 at 2:19 pm
Wow, this is a really awesome cape!
Could you possibly give me some pointers about making a variation of this?
I’m trying to make something like this for halloween, but i’m really bad at sewing.
25 Sep 2008 at 10:52 pm
[...] was certainly in her element. Have a feeling that I’ll be adding accoutrements to her red cape before next year’s [...]
18 Oct 2008 at 10:03 am