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How to Make a Real Life Skill Cape

RuneScape is a free fantasy genre gaming platform where players are required to perform magic, battle dragons and navigate dungeons to score points and pass levels. A skill cape or "Cape of Accomplishment" is a cape that can be purchased by members of RuneScape when they reach a 99 point skill level in RuneScape skills such as crafting, firemaking, fishing, farming, magic and thieving. You can make your own real life "Crafting" skill cape at home with a few basic sewing and craft materials.

Things You'll Need

Measuring tape
1 yard pale yellow fabric
Ruler
Fabric chalk
Sewing pins
Sewing scissors
Sewing machine
Black ribbon
Printer
Black and silver fabric paint
Small paintbrush

Instructions

- 1
  Measure the length between your left shoulder and the middle of your left calf with a measuring tape. Measure the width of your shoulders with a measuring tape. Add 1/2 an inch to each of these measurements for seam allowance and write the final figure down on a piece of paper.
- 2
  Lay the fabric on a flat surface in front of you. Measure and draw a rectangular shape with the width and length measurements you just calculated on the fabric with your ruler and fabric chalk.
- 3
  Cut the rectangle shape out with your sewing scissors.
- 4
  Fold 1/4 of an inch of fabric over on each of the four sides of the rectangle and pin into place with sewing pins.
- 5
  Sew around the rectangle with your sewing machine. Sew slowly and remove the pins as you go.
- 6
  Measure and cut two ten-inch pieces of ribbon. Lay your cape wrong side up with the short side running horizontally. Pin the end of one piece of ribbon to the top corner of the long, left hand edge of the cape. Pin one end of the other piece of ribbon to the very top of the long, right hand edge of the cape. Both pieces of ribbon should be protruding outward from the cape.
- 7
  Sew the ribbon to the cape with your sewing machine.
- 8
  Connect to the Internet, open your web browser and navigate to your chosen stock photo website (see Resources).
- 9
  Type "two crossed axes" into the search bar. This is the motif that features on the back "craft" skill cape.
- 10
  Click on your chosen crossed axe image to download it. Click "Save and open" when prompted. Choose a location for the image on your computer and click "OK."
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  Click on "File" followed by "Print" in the image window. Click "OK" to print the image on to paper.
- 12
  Cut around the printed image with your scissors.
- 13
  Place your cape right side up and center the crossed axe image on the fabric. Trace around the image with your fabric chalk.
- 14
  Paint the outline of the axe motif with black fabric paint. Fill in the handles of the axes with black paint. Rinse your paint brush. Fill in the blades of the axes with silver paint.
- 15
  Leave your cape to dry overnight.
- 16
  Try your skill cape on.

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