It is lined and very warm and is a full circle that easily covers two people.
The problem was that it is too warm for our Summer and I hate that long point on the hood. What am I supposed to do? Store food in that space???
When I lay the thing on the floor and actually looked at it... (my philosophy is that if i want to make a pair of pants, I ignore the patterns and carefully examine a set I own that was made by a professional) ... i saw something interesting!
Notice how the shoulders are shaped near the hood! THAT makes it hang perfectly and is very comfortable to wear.
The cloak came with ties so I added ‘button-holes’ and forged that cloak pin one day when I was bored.
Then I laid the cloak on the floor, examined it very carefully and used it as a pattern for this summer-weight cloak.
I made the hood smaller but it is essentially the same thing.
OK, I made it from some poly-cotton blend because I had a few years of that laying around and figured that if I ruined the cloak, no big deal as this was a training cloak. If it worked, I could buy something like a wool-cotton blend and make another one. I just haven’t yet, though when I do, I plan to gift this blue one to whomever wants it.
