Daring to sew

[lori]

In the past few weeks I have moved, got a new job, and ordered a Ray Way quilt kit. Deluxe, with gorget and draft stopper and alpine upgrade. Brown and black.

My sewing machine (basic Kenmore) was jumping and jamming - I took it for a tune up and it works just spiffy now. I reclaimed the machine from the repair place just the day before I packed everything in a Penske and moved 200 miles. My new apartment is still full of boxes and bags and piles of junk on the floor, but doggone it, I set up the machine on a folding table and started on that stuff sack. First time I've ever tried anything slinky as silnylon. A bit of jiggity on part of the seam, but it'll do.

If the RW quilt works out I'm thinking of ordering supplies from Speer and making a down underquilt.

I also attempted a cat stove with abysmal results. Didn't even bubble the water before it died. My cat loves me now, however.

I think the gear bug may have bit just in time to mate with the procrastination bug - it may take a while to un-box, at this rate. Reading lots of posts in this forum probably isn't helping. I think y'all are contagious.

[Mule]

Great, Make your dreams come true one stitch at a time. Mule

[slowhike]

keep those projects going lori. it just keeps getting better & better!

[Tango61]

Hi Lori,
Welcome to the board. If you look at some of my pic's you'll see what your RayWay quilt will look like when it is finished.

http://www.hammockforums.net/gallery...&searchid=3468

Tango

[lori]

Thanks, Tango - cept mine is going to be a lovely shade of bristlecone brown with a black interior.

I wish the Preacha's wife could get the brown for the tarp I asked her to make - then it'd match up with the hammock too.

I have the fabric all cut out, and the insulation. I will make the draft stopper but I think instead of the gorget I'm going to make a hood sort of like the JRB pattern. I also wanted to make a channel for a draw cord instead of sewing up a footbox. That way it'll lay flat on my bed.

[Preacha Man]

I wish we could get the brown too, I have looked everywhere. I am going to make thepreacherswife's tarp out of Chocolate 1.9oz ripstop that I will coat with Sil myself. This will be her pretty tarp, with pink guy lines, and tie outs. If she was going hiking then she would carry a 1.1oz Sil tarp.

Dwight

[greggg3]

Whats that bristlecone brown like? On his website, Ray claims its some kind of special material with special properties?

[lori]

The bristlecone is sort of toffee colored and less ... crisp, I guess, than the material sent along for the stuff sack. Ray makes a big deal about it being warmer - I can't vouch for that yet, and may not be able to since this is my first RW quilt (nothing to compare it to).