"If animals could speak the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
- Mark Twain
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! NO MORE WOOD!"
- Mancat
*Heaven best have trees, because I plan to lounge for eternity.
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. - Mark Twain
Trail name: Radar
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Grizz
(alias ProfessorHammock on youtube)
I did miss this step when I did my We Don't Sew vids.... Your tongue has to slip between your teeth on the side of your mouth and droop at a 30* angle from horizontal. The longer the seam... the more length and droop you need to the tongue. There are times I look like one of those ugly dog winners.
I may be slow... But I sure am gimpy.
"Bless you child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way."
Mrs. Loftus to Huck Finn
We Don't Sew... We Make Gear! video series
Important thread injector guidelines especially for Newbies
Bobbin Tension - A Personal Viewpoint
I got a new machine last Christmas and its just sitting not, I did something to it. Went back to using my trusty 6 year old cheapo. I find the slower I go the better my lines get. My last two hammocks my mother said she was proud of me, I got a tear. I still get those nest and they really bite, especially when i take my time and got some really good lies going and I am almost finished with a 80" line and it just goes to crap.
Yosemite Sam: Are you trying to make me look a fool?
Bugs: You don't need me to make you look like a fool.
Yosemite Sam: Yer deerrrnnn right I don't!
Nests or multiple loops of thread stuck could be lack of top tension. Also if your thread is too large for the needle, it may not sit in the needle groove correctly, and it will hang up a loop at the bobbin. loading the bobbin, the thread should come off the bobbin away from the tensioning slit in the bobbin case. In other words, you would want the thread to turn 180 degrees, then go through the slit. Definitely don't give up. I am getting close to making my house payment every month from sewing, and I never imagined I would enjoy it as much as I do now.
An emergency of my own making...is still an emergency.
+1 Sewing a sleeping bag is about the toughest thing I have done. It sucked...
- broken needle, check
- Tangles, check
- Uneven stitching, check
- Frustration, Check
I finally finished that job, but said never again...
Of course that was a THIN synthetic bag. Doing the same to my down bag was still difficult, but MUCH easier.
I found going really really slow was better. Needles get broken when you're trying to push the bag through the foot too hard... they bend, miss the hole, and break. It'd almost be easier to sew the darn thing by hand...
"Do or do not, there is no try." -- Yoda
As a friendly reminder, if you thread and fabric are the same color people can't tell how straight or crooked your stitching is.
*Heaven best have trees, because I plan to lounge for eternity.
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. - Mark Twain
Trail name: Radar
2014 Smoked Butt Hang Planning Thread | Sign up Sheet
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