/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Can I just vent a little here about my Halloween costume? I'm kind of sewing challenged. I need straight up step by step instructions most of the time when it comes to sewing otherwise I just don't get it at all.
And for Halloween my friends and me were going to do Lord of the Rings, and my job was to make the cloaks. I got everything all good, the hemming, etc, but when it came to the hoods, I just fucked up so bad. I was following that Alleycatscratch pattern, but her hood instructions were so incomprehensible to me, in the end, all the hoods wound up too small. I think they're all supposed to sit loose around your face when you pull them up, but because they're so small, it's kind of tight around your face and sticks up a little at the forehead as if it were a little cap.
I'm so upset over it because I put a lot of effort into it, and all of my friends are assuring me that they love them and they look super cute, but I wanted them to look as accurate as I could.
I suck so much at sewing

>>6909096
T-thank you so much. That actually means a lot to me...
I realize that my story's not really a funny one as much as a self-depreciating one when I look back on it, but I really appreciate someone acknowledging what I went through