Ok, so I want to try and make some silnylon tarps, among other things. I also got a bunch of JCP puffers awhile back which I plan to use for quilts However, I have never tried sewing. My mother gave my GF and me a quick once over on her sewing machine and let us have it. However, my mother is no sewer herself, so her lesson was very limited. Anyway, where do you begin in learning to sew? I am afraid to try on materials that I will put money into. And one particular question I had about a tarp specifically is how do you roll and sew the catenary curves? It seems that a tarp should be pretty simple because most of it is straight sewing, but it seems that trying to sew a catenary cut might be tricky, no? I have also heard that sewing silnylon is tough because it is slippery. How difficult is it for a first real project? I have some ripstop from joann's that I use as a ground cloth, I figured I would practice rolling and hemming the edges for practice first.
Lastly about a tarp, I got a quote from Noah Lamport for $3.00 a yard without a cutting cost bc he has the amount of sil I need left on a roll. Shipping he said would be about 15-20, so I would be at about $80 for about 20 yards, to my door. I figured I could make 2 winter tarps from that. First off, is that a good number of yards if I want to make a few tarps with it? Also, if this number is accurate, that means that I'm in for about 40 dollars on fabric per tarp. Would it be right in assuming that I need another 5 dollars in supplies for webbing reinforcement fabric, or is my estimate of making a tarp way off with my given fabric costs...
Whew, I'm probably throwing a lot of bad questions out there, but I just want to be fully educated before I get into something that was either harder or much more costly than I anticipated.
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