So I purchased some of the "mysterious grey DWR rip stop" from walmart. I don't have any way of measuring it but I hear it is about 1.2 oz/yrd. I plan on creating a Explorer size HH clone. I am not sure if I should use a double layer of my Walmart fabric or if I should invest in 4 yards of 1.9 oz ripstop and use the Walmart DWR for another project (maybe a Syntetic UQ).
I'm finding it difficult to get the material to line up for a double layer. Maybe i just need to find a gym floor or something large enough to lay the entire 5'x11' hammock body out flat. I'm just a bit frustrated. GRR!
I haev a lot of this material, and I use it for double layer hammocks. You can line it up, and pin the end you are sewing first. You will have to pin the ends before you sew, that stuff is slippery, and very difficult to keep lined up if you don't pin it or clip it or something to keep it in place along the edges.Originally Posted by packeagle
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DIY is addicting and fulfilling!
"If guns kill people, then pencils mispell words, cars cause people to drink and drive, and spoons made Rosie O'donnell fat."
Does it work well to sew down one of the long sides then pin and sew down the other long side? Will this cause the two layers to be miss aligned (not square to each other)?
The gray/silver WW ripstop is great stuff. Makes a very comfy hammock.
Your plan to sew down one edge and then pin the rest is solid. If you have enough length, I'd fold it in half, maybe make it a few inches long and sew from the fold down the length of each side, leaving an opening for a pad along the way. Then trim and sew the width.
If anybody has any extra, I'm looking for about 7 yards for a DL hammock... I bought all they had a year ago, and I'm out... checked 7 WM's in San Diego, only 2 have fabric stores left. (sigh):
"Do or do not, there is no try." -- Yoda
The WM i got mine from only had it on the bargain bin on bolts of 5 yards. I bought all they had 10 yards. So to make an 11' hammock i need to use both pieces. I should have a lot left over for stuff sacks, and other projects.
I'f I'm making just a standard double layer with no extras, I put the two pieces together, pin the edges on both side, then run down each edge with the sewing machine, leaving both ends open. Then once both edges are sewn (leave a couple of feet open on one edge for putting a mat in), I reach all the way through, turn that sucker inside out, take a couple of inches on each end and sew channels into the ends. Pass some cordage through and whip the ends and VOILA, hammock!
I can whip one up in an hour or so. And I suck with the sewing machine.
Fulfillment is living a life that makes the lives of others worth living.
DIY is addicting and fulfilling!
"If guns kill people, then pencils mispell words, cars cause people to drink and drive, and spoons made Rosie O'donnell fat."
Run back and get more if you've got the DIY bug! Buy it ALL...
Next: Get some Organza if you have no-see-ums, or some use Tulle for bugnets. (my local Joanne's has white mosquito net that is pretty durable) If you have white, find some spray dye. A nice white/black camo pattern looks cool if you do it right. Done wrong, your hammock looks like a cow.
You can either make a bugsock, or like I did, use ripstop on the bottom, so it's a combo bugnet/splash shield. The ripstop I treated with Camp-dry or other similar fabric waterproofer.
When I first got started, that silver stuff was so slippery and it held water, so I thought it was SIL... Turns out it's DWR. Either way, I made a 8x10 tarp out of it. Used a whole can of waterproofer on it. It hasn't leaked a drop (of course, I'm in Southern California, where it really doesn't rain hard.)
<read fast> After your bugnet, it might be Underquilt, or Top quilt, or Segmented Pad Extender (if you continue to use a pad), stuff sacks galore, ridgeline organizer, etc. Then you go to Home depot and make a portable hammock stand out of 2x4's... then your kids want hammocks, then you make more. Their friends want hammocks... next thing you know, you have bits of random cloth everywhere, no sleep, and people at work start looking at you funny, pointing and whispering when you walk in <breathe>. . . so I hear. . .
Welcome to the addiction!
John
"Do or do not, there is no try." -- Yoda
They only had the 10 yards that i picked up. I was thinking of waiting to build my HH clone so I can sew a zipper in between the layers on the entry side and the other short side. Much like a HH mod 2. or i may just make the hammock and sew the zipper for the netting on when it comes
So i just measured 10 yards of this fabric and it came to 2lbs.
1.5 x 10= 15 sq yards
32 oz / 15 sq yrds = 2.13333 oz/ sq yrd
Is this right?
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