Now begins my least favorite part. Measuring and cutting. I am a perfectionist so it takes me like 30minutes to measure each line and make sure they are flawless (measure twice, cut once!). I figured out a way to do it all on my living room floor, I just have to measure the tarp in four pieces. Hopefully my loving wife will continue to love me for the next week while we have no living room floor.
Lol. I take up our dining room floor with my projects. I have my wife, dog and cat trained not to step on my fabric when it's laid out!!
Can't wait to see the progression on this project!
My head is an animal
I finally got a few hours to measure and cut the first half! This is the first project that I am using the scaled-down drawing for direct measurements. It is much easier to work with metrics when doing ratios so I am getting pretty good with understanding standard vs metrics.
AHH! I ran into an issue. The tarp is asymmetric so when I measured the access material for the second half's top portion I assumed it would be the same for the first half's but I was wrong! The material is like 1" short so hopefully I will be able to work something out.
The sewing begins!
Top portion mated with the lower portion
The sewing gets more complicated
At this point it just looks like a bunch of weird angles and crappy sewing
Sewing on a friction saver to protect the silnylon at the webbing entry point
Testing out the size to see if I measured everything correctly!
Sewing the cinch bottom. The nylon cord was replaced with shockcord.
Final fit test before I reinforce all of the stitches and add the windows
View from the bottom
View from inside
Now it is time to start cutting up my old tarp to build the windows. It will be difficult to make the first snip but I am excited with how the colors will look together
Hopefully the windows will be finished by Wednesday so that I can fricken go camping!Stay tuned for the final pictures.
-Refreshing
Why does this keep running through my head???Originally Posted by Refreshing
...Testing out the size to see if I measured everything correctly!
Haha! Yes! Now everytime I enter my hammock I am going to be quietly humming that tune to myself.
Awesome concept, awesome work, infectious enthusiasm; love it!
Hmmmm, Park spoke ruler. nice touch.
I'll be following this; it's really a cool project, but I'm content to hang much closer to the ground!!
Respect,
vtaflyer
That is down-right all-right and outta-sight. Really.
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