....I seem to have descended back into the headspace where I lose a day and a half to sitting on the couch reading extremely long fanfic one after another. Augh? Augh.

Anyway, one of the things I was supposed to have done today instead was finish my new cloak!

My old cloak is 20 years old this year. It's emerald green wool/polyester blend on the outside and with a Lothlorian grey heavy knit lining. I made it when I started high school because I wanted a cloak like the ones they had in The Lord of the Rings (the books - there were no movies then). BUT I wanted it to look like a cloak that had been to Mordor and back, and I figured the only way to do that was to start getting wear onto it as soon as possible.

It worked! That cloak definitely looks like it has survived a few epic quests and journeys through the slough of despond (and it has, too; some more metaphorical than others.) It is my magic cloak that protects me in dark places.

But. It is still the first thing I will grab if I'm called to an adventure, still warm and waterproof and trusty, but it isn't exactly presentable these days, so I'd been planning for awhile to make another one - I still had the original pattern and I'd been hoarding heavy wool fabrics. And then I acquired an already-sewn lining to the same pattern, so just before Thanksgiving I sat myself down and made the new one. It is just as warm and comfortable as the other one, if not quite as magic yet!

The new one is a blue/grey/rust plaid that I really like (and was also the only heavy wool I had 4 yards of - there is a lot of cloth in a cloak.) It still needs pockets, though; I ran out of time to add the pockets, and I really need pockets. Also, I am debating adding secret pockets. Every magic cloak needs secret pockets, right?