My laptop battery is about to die, so here are the pics real quick. I made this today from cheap fabric-store mesh.
It's just a tapered tube (seams top and bottom). Widest at the middle and tapering to about 12" wide at the ends. It closes with draw-cords at the ends.
Entry/exit is through the zippers I put on one side, near the bottom. These are 22" zippers that close towards the middle. One faces in, one faces out. So when you're inside, you can close the outward-facing one first, then the inward-facing one. And vice-versa after you get out.
It also makes a handy shoe storage area, which pulls the netting down to keep bugs off my backside, and tightens the netting up top so it doesn't flop in my face. (Those are my wife's shoes... she was in there at the time.)
Total cost was about $15. Total weight is exactly 9 ounces.
Not bad for a first-time bug net with absolutely no plan, eh?
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