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This week I completed my 12y son's Robin Hood costume for the upcoming Medieval Feast.  He picked out all the colors. Here is the cape.

 Here is the tunic.  I did not hem the collar, sleeves or jagged bottom.  After all, Robin Hood did live in the forest during the Middle Ages!  I also figured that a guy who was always fighting for sport and to rob from the rich to give to the poor and to ransom King Richard from France would not have the most pristine clothes.  Therefore I was aiming for a more rustic look!  Besides, the neckline will be covered by the cape anyway!  =)

Here is a close up of the neck opening.  That I did decide to hem with embroidery floss to make it look rustic and give dimension.

Maybe you can see it a little better here...

Then I did the hat.  I had to sew an inner circle to an outer circle. I meant to take a picture of that but forgot.  This was quite tedious.  I pinned excessively and took my time going around, snipping into the curve with my scissors to get the fabric where I wanted it and it came out perfectly smooth!  Rejoicingly, I had ds open it up...

Oops!  Well we don't want the interfacing to show!  So ds turned it inside out...(Did you see the hint?  Can you tell what is coming?)

 Alas, methinks I sewed the inner to the outer backwards!  See the seam line between the brim and peaked hat?  Sigh...so I had to rip out that hard work.  Then I worried about messing up the bias and getting it all wonky.  When I finally got the seam ripped apart, I didn't even bother pinning this time.  I just ran it through the machine and got...

Whew!  Mission accomplished!  Now ds will be decorating it with a feather.  That wraps up the weekly adventures of a seamstress mother and her merry children!