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In the tarp instructions, sewing over the flap on the felled seam is listed as optional.
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What is the disadvantage of stopping at step 2? Obviously, the flap would be on the underside of the tarp. Aesthetically, step 3 would look better, but you also have another row of stitches on your ridgeline that you need to seal.
What would a new seamster do?
GadgetUK437
09-10-2016, 00:17
All the tension will be on one line of stiches. Step 3 will give 2 lines of stiches to take the load.
Seam sealing two lines of stiches less than half an inch apart, we'll be no harder than sealing one.
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Gadget
I tried both. So worth the 3rd stitch. Much stronger.
I stitched the flap down. It wasn't too difficult.
All in all, it came out good (enough). I have to hang it and seam seal. It was a fun project.
Heber Hammock
09-13-2016, 08:58
In the tarp instructions, sewing over the flap on the felled seam is listed as optional.
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What is the disadvantage of stopping at step 2? Obviously, the flap would be on the underside of the tarp. Aesthetically, step 3 would look better, but you also have another row of stitches on your ridgeline that you need to seal.
What would a new seamster do?
I included step three when I made mine. I think the sealing would have been a real pain without doing it. With step three, I had a relatively smooth surface to seal. Without it, I would have had the ... ridge? ... hanging down to have to seal. That would have been frustrating, and ugly.
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I didn't do step 3 on my hex and it came out fine. Yeah there is a hanging seam on the underside but it sealed great and I haven't had any issue with it yet. Granted I made it only a few weeks ago but is been hung several times and at one point for 3 continuous days.
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Bothwell Voyageur
09-19-2016, 08:56
I may be wrong, and often am, but I think the "flap" should be on the outside. Done this way there wouldn't be so much tension trying to pull the stitches apart and would work and look similar to a grosgrain ridge used on some commercial tarps. You could even feed a zing-it or dynaglide ridgeline through the seam from one end to the other to take all the load and stop the tarp from stretching.
ripstopbytheroll
09-19-2016, 12:48
I may be wrong, and often am, but I think the "flap" should be on the outside. Done this way there wouldn't be so much tension trying to pull the stitches apart and would work and look similar to a grosgrain ridge used on some commercial tarps. You could even feed a zing-it or dynaglide ridgeline through the seam from one end to the other to take all the load and stop the tarp from stretching.
Yes. If you aren't going to flat-fell the seam, nipple out.
Got a chance to hang it over the weekend.
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I had enough extra material to make the pack cover from the kit directions on the website.