Okay so I mulled this idea over in my head and started a thread to discuss the idea. You can see it here
Making 2 Costco down throws into a TQ
https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...d.php?t=119016
So starting out I had to rip the horizontal seams. I'll try to (briefly) outline (with pictures) a technique that I found particularly quick. Allowing me to tear both quilts horizontal seams in about 100 minutes give or take.
Get a decent amount of thread starting from one end. Enough to get a decent grip on
Start pulling and the fabric will start bunching up. Now don't get greedy cause this thread ain't strong and you'll just break it way shorter than you want
Use a seam ripper. This would have taken me a million years with a small knife. Buy one. Steal one from your wife or grandmas sewing kit. It's very useful. Use the ripper to cut a thread a bit ahead of the bunched area
I was averaging pieces about 10-15 inches and and it takes 30 seconds to pull one. You do the math.
Here's a picture of some thread
After I had that all done I shook the down as far to one end as I could. The used a ruler to kinda scrape the vertical baffles and push the down a bit farther.
Now this is a bit of an unfair picture cause all the down was sitting at the bottom 30 inches or so but I ended up using about 40 inches length that I cut each one down to. So loft is exaggerated here.
If you read the above thread I basically went with the plan I had outlined. I connected the two 40" concentrated down sections of the two quilts and left an extra row as kind of a baffle for the connection point.
You will see that someone had mentioned pushing the down up on the outside of the bottom sections and tapering the footbox area. I wish I had done that but today is literally the first time (I borrowed my neighboUrs) I have ever used a thread injector in my life (and let me tell you I will never gripe about cottage vendor prices again. They're practically giving things away if they experience 1/10th the aggravation I did with the bobbin and coming unspooled cause I'm too bone headed to grab the thread) so I didn't want to push my luck. Everything else worked out pretty well.
I ended up what you see below. Total width is the full 60" (and a liberally spaced footbox) and length I would say is 73-75 inches (necessary as im 6'3). I sewed a channel for the footbox and cliched it using some zing-it and a double chord lock. Sewed the footbox to be about 25 inches deep. I may have to extend that if its not high enough for my 3/4 UQ. Loft is good. I'm laying in my hammock in about a 67* basemebt in only boxers and only a thin blanket under me and im overheating (I run warm usually) and an pull it up over my face.
I think this was a good learning experience and hopefully I can test the quilt in some actual weather conditions and report how it handles. I think more DIY gear is in my foreseeable future.
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Originally Posted by Canahang
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