Has anyone tried the satin?
Has anyone tried the satin?
I got my tablecloth in just not sure how I want to do the ends. Don't ask me why but I want to do the sewn channel
Mike: Go for it! I prefer channel ends. Then, for fun, you can experiment with Red's mini-spreader bars: CLICK
Good luck! (I've got 4 tablecloths coming from their 20% off sale)
"Pips"
Mountains have a dreamy way
Of folding up a noisy day
In quiet covers, cool and gray.
---Leigh Buckner Hanes
Surely, God could have made a better way to sleep.
Surely, God never did.
Can you give me or point me to the best methodOriginally Posted by Pipsissewa
Mike: Go for it! I prefer channel ends. Then, for fun, you can experiment with Red's mini-spreader bars: CLICK
Good luck! (I've got 4 tablecloths coming from their 20% off sale)
F.Y.I
They have free shipping if you spend $50.00 I think I will get some
HERE is a thread about sewing a channel end. Not much to it: Three rows of stitches, 8 stitches per inch (more weakens the fabric; less may tear out)
Best of luck to you!
Dang! I missed that free shipping bit. My total was $48 something. Shoulda bought another tablecloth for an extra few bucks!
P.S.: Just for kicks, I tried to access that free shipping deal by ordering five tablecloths. I couldn't get it to work.
Last edited by Pipsissewa; 07-04-2013 at 07:18.
"Pips"
Mountains have a dreamy way
Of folding up a noisy day
In quiet covers, cool and gray.
---Leigh Buckner Hanes
Surely, God could have made a better way to sleep.
Surely, God never did.
Just my opinion, but I have made a bunch of these tablecloth hammocks and you don't need to double the channel.
It's already pre-hemmed. Just fold that over two inches or so and run three rows of straight stitches. Lock the ends of the rows of stitching. Good to go. Any more is just costing you length.
hfg
Some say I'm apathetic, but I don't care. - Randy
I got my TC hammock finished today. Funny you think you done all the research before you start a project but as you go along I start have a ton of question but can't stop to look each on up so you kinda wing it so now I will ask now..
1. In the channel is it OK to just run the fixed end of my whoopie sling , or should it be another section of am steel?
2. Has anyone used the harbor #67386 freight 1" straps for tree huggers?
3. I used a #11 needle and 100% poly thread is the thread overkill?
Last edited by Mike5150; 07-07-2013 at 20:22.
1. You'll get different opinions on this one. I just run the fixed end through.
2. Yes, and they work great.
3. Nope. I always use 100% poly because cotton and cotton blends will rot eventually.
Hope that helps!
If your thread was so light as to fit the eye of a #11 needle, I hope you secured / tacked the ends of the stitch-line very well. I'd want to use a thread that required a #16 (or larger) needle. That thread would be more than twice as strong. Lock-stitches should lock, so a break is self-limiting. But, I'd still be concerned about the light weight of the thread. None of the stitches can, individually be very strong, and with long exposure to sun -- which is unlikely -- they will lose a much greater fraction of strength due to UV, as more of its core is closer to the surface and penetrated by the radiation.
Here's a chart of polyester thread characteristics and strengths.
http://www.thethreadexchange.com/miv...lyester-thread
Last edited by DemostiX; 07-10-2013 at 13:00. Reason: thread characteristics
Wow #16 this is some 100% poly that Wally world had and as for the needle its what my books says to use on taffeta. I would like to know the actual thickness of what you use
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