Make Your own Jedi Robe and Tunic for Halloween or Sci-Fi Convention

Make your own simple Jedi tunic. No huge amount of sewing expertise is needed.

Things You’ll Need:

• brown fabric ( a lot)
• tan fabric (about half as much)
• straight pins
• safety pins
• brown thread
• tan thread
• iron on seam tape
• sharp scissors
• chalk

Purchase cheap brown fabric for the outer robe. You will need a large amount of fabric, 72" wide. Buy a whole bolt from the bargain bin. If you can't find fabric wide enough, you will have to add extensions to the sleeves.

Determine your height to the shoulder. Double that, and cut that much fabric from the piece you bought.

Spread the fabric out, doubled width-wise. Lay down on the fabric with your arms outstretched and your shoulders positioned right on the fold. Have a friend trace around you with some chalk or a marker. Remember, a robe should FLOW so the tracing should be on the "loose" side.

Use straight pins to attach the layers of fabric together along the line. Cut the shape about an inch larger, outside of the line.

Hand or machine sew along the line or use iron on seam tape. Turn the robe inside out.

Make the front opening by cutting a line straight up the middle of the front layer of the robe to the shoulder fold. Try the robe on.

Hem the edges along the bottom, the ends of the sleeves, and the edges of the front opening. Alternatively, you could use iron-on seam tape.

The hood is a separate piece made up of a rectangle of fabric. Cut a 1 foot by 2 foot piece of fabric. Fold it in half to make a 1' square.
Sew one edge from the fold to the end. Turn the hood inside out.

Make a head-hole on the robe by cutting a 6" opening in the robe centered at the top of the front slit that you cut earlier. The hood will be sewn to the opening you just cut.

Align the seam you stitched up the back of the hood to the center of the back on the neck hole. Sew the two ends of the hood rectangle to the left and right sides of the neck hole. If edge of the hood is longer than the neck hole edge, just make some pleats. Remember the Jedi hoods are supposed to look very large and floppy.

The inner tunic is much shorter and a V neck. Use tan fabric. Cut two 30" long an 10" wide. Position the fabric, draped over the shoulders so that the fabric pieces cross at the chest of the body of the person that will be wearing it. Pin it in the desired V shape in the front and on the back. Sew across the fabric on the front where the pieces cross and again for the back part.

Use a 6" wide by 30" strip of fabric as a belt. Use seam tape or sew a hem on both sides of the belt, so that it ends up being about 4" wide. Use the belt as kind of a cumberbund to conceal the stitches on the tunic. You might have to pin it in place. Wear a plain brown long sleeve shirt under the tunic. You will wear the robe over the tunic.

You can use this robe and tunic for any of your favorite Jedi Characters, or use the tunic alone as part of a monk costume. Don't forget your light saber.
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