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
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If anyone would know, it would be Brian.
i've found white tailors chalk hard to get completely off black sil before.
(edit) i just went and checked, and "crayola twistables" seem to work pretty well and come off pretty easily. it's sort of a mechanical colored pencil, available at wallyworld.
Last edited by warbonnetguy; 04-11-2009 at 21:32.
Tailor's chalk mechanical pencil from Hancock Fabrics. Comes with many white sticks and several colors: red, yellow, blue...
This is what I used for 2 quilts and more than 8 down sleeves. The marks will "dust off" if you handle the fabric a lot before sewing. But I never had a problem making all the marks for 8 baffles on two pieces of fabric and then doing the sewing.
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A grease pencil from the hardware store works great for me. I have a couple different colors depending on the color of the sil. It rubs off and doesn't get all over my fingers like a marker does.
I always try to cut the lines off or put them on the inside when I can. I also cut along the ripstop when I can. I figure they are straighter than I can draw.
Is that too much to ask? Girls with frikkin' lasers on their heads?
The hanger formly known as "hammock engineer".
Careful on the 'drawing on the ripstop' part - silnylon, especially along the axis perpendicular to the length of the fabric, can often have a skewing of (up to) several inches in the ripstop pattern! Your best bet is to use a woodworker's square or other tool to get a truly perpendicular line.
Often times the ripstop is straight as an arrow - just be aware of the limitations. I've had to re-cut more rectangular tarps that I care to acknowledge based on that curvature.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Every woven material has a bias. That is the flexing that occurs when the fabric is pulled diagonal to the weave. The bias is greatest at 45* to the weave.
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
interestingly "sailcloth" uses chemicals and resins to glue the fibers together to resist stretch on the bias
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