Originally Posted by
warbonnetguy
yeah, you could do that, just putting ggr or trim along the edge for a ways and nothing in the interior of the corner. i would go at least 8" in each direction. you can leave several inches hanging off from each piece and use that to go around a plastic d-ring or something and then just stitch it back on itself. if you try just stitching a pull tab loop to the ends of the ggr trim, you have to worry about only being able to install very few stitches at that spot, making for a relatively weak stitch joint between the end of the edge "trim" and the actual pull tab. it might still be strong enough, but the other way, you can make the piece that gets stitched back onto itself as long as you want (probably 4" or so). this is how i do my tarps except i have trim running along the entire perimeter rather than just at the corners. the way i suggested the ridgeline is how i used to do it until i put trim along the length of the ridgeline as well, but it is still basically the same.
i do do the pull tabs on the doors of the superfly almost exactly like you describe, but they don't see much tension, however as long as you make the arms of the y long enough (probably 8" or so) and double stitch it with short stitch length, the fabric should be fine. again, not sure about the way you describe attaching the loop, but the rest i'm pretty confident about.
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