Grandma’s house was a magical place a short distance from any place we lived. Along with the special costume dresser in the attic, my grandma had a bunch of unique toys and bobbles for us to play with at her home. Hidden in depths of the pink bathroom cabinets were a pink plastic princess phone, pick-up sticks, wooden blocks, and the sparkly scepter.
I’m sure it was just a stick with a colored ball on the top, but we thought this enchanting stick was fabulous. Big K and I would take turns sitting atop Grandpa’s recliner in the study, bestowing gifts and blessings upon each other for hours. Glittery ideas of prince and princesses alighting our imagination.
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Although this Nana may live a bit further away than she likes, she is bound and determined to provide Favorite Pixie with a life filled with stories and wonder and imagination.
With that in mind, when Favorite Navy Wife requested a Harry Potter Quidditch robe for Favorite Pixie’s dress-up trunk, it was a no-brainer. Done and done.
Let’s make a Harry Potter Quidditch robe – Gryffindor style!
1. Gather Supplies
Favorite Pixie wanted a Gryffindor robe, but go ahead and choose your favorite Hogwarts house and adjust accordingly.
Scarlet fleece
gold cotton for lining
gold ribbon
fusible webbing strip
gold cording
thread
scissors
Gryffindor Patch (I got mine here)
Gold felt
2. Cut pieces
There are several ways to do this. If you are feeling confident, you can go ahead and freehand cut the shape of your robe. You will need TWO of each fabric, outer robe and lining.
Also, cut out pieces for the hood. I used the same pattern I used for the Max costume for this hood.
Cut the front pieces of the robe down the middle and also, cut a small curve for the neckline on the front pieces. If you require more detailed directions, check out this tutorial or you may want to purchase a pattern
Step 3: Stitch outer pieces together and lining pieces together.
Pin scarlet fleece back and front pieces together and stitch along side seams. Do the same with gold lining.
Step 4: Add Racing Stripes to sides and hood.
Line up the fusible webbing strip and the gold ribbon and iron on to the sides of the robe and down the middle of the hood.
Using a zig-zag stitch to attach stripes permanently.
Step 5: Add Name and Number
Download the Harry Potter font (it’s free!) and print out the name and number you’d like for the back of the robe. Using the print out as a pattern, cut the letters and number out of the gold felt.
Once cut, use the fusible webbing strip to attach the name and to the back of your robe. Iron and then stitch in place.
Step 6: Finish Hood
Stitch hood pieces together and turn out. Iron seams.
Attach finished hood to the outer robe, right sides together.
Step 7: Attach lining to robe
With right sides together and hood tucked inside stitch robe to lining along side seams and neckline. Do not stitch arms or hem yet.
Step 8: Turn out and iron
Step 9: Hem sleeves and bottom
Using a simple rolled hem stitch, finish sleeves and bottom hem of the robe.
Step 10: Add grommets and laces
Using a hammer and the grommet tool, attach six grommets to each side of the robe. ***Although grommets make things look really fancy, they are fairly simple to do. Just make sure that when you purchase the grommets, they come with the little tool required to attach them.
Step 11: Finish
Iron on the Hogwart’s house patch and lace gold cord through the grommets to finish.
And it fits!
Paula, so nice to see you! Greetings from Wisconsin to Alabama, where I hope things are going well for you. What a great blog. It has been years since I checked in with it. You were still living in ‘Sconi.
Favorite Pixie . . . let me guess. Adam and Kelsey’s little one. What a great idea. Perhaps next year I will make one for Warren, David and Tricia’s little one. He was born last March. Their child care is provided by the grandparents – Van Eschen’s do 4 days a week and Steve and I do one. It is delightful, as you know.
We had an overflow crowd here for Thanksgiving. My sisters, my one bro-in-law, D and T and W, Nick and Kholood from CA, Andrew, Amy and their two, Anna and Sam and their three, Sue and Kurt and their three. And our house is quite a bit smaller than our Prairie Farm House. We put the young ones at a lovely table in the basement with Marion and Marie to oversee. Still there were 18 of us in the living room around our antique table that can just barely hold that number.
I can picture exactly the baton you and Kristin found in my mom’s dress up bin. It was a prop that I and perhaps others used for a drum majorette costume for the 4th of July parade in Saint Anthony Park. It had silver glitter on the head of it – perhaps a bit worn off when you used it for your magic wand.
Life here in Menomonie continues just fine. I miss our country place, but I do like this wonderful item we have. It is called a thermostat! Pretty awesome, right?
I send my love and let you know that Steve and I are planning a trip to the South. I have a standing invitation to visit my cousin Charles in Charleston – have never gone. Also, friends in NC and in FL. So we may make a big ol’ loop and see our peeps in the deep south. Might we stop by? There will be lots of advance notice and probably a hip replacement surgery for Steve before it happens.
Take care, greet Jon. Love, kate