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    Senior Member dukedante's Avatar
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    How a non-sewer can sew a bugnet

    I made a Fronkey style bugnet out of tulle as one of the first projects I made with my new machine. I don't have much skill, but a little bit of dexterity and "want to". I measured out the fabric and used clothespins to pin it since I didn't have real pins.

    Then I rolled it up to make it manageable in the sewing machine.

    Feeding it through and taking off pins:

    Pins on the sides after the ridgeline was sewn:

    The finished project:


    The tulle bugnet weighed in at 2.4oz. Pretty dang good IMO.

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    VERY good indeed!
    Last fall we just took some tulle and draped it over the hammock, then used close pins to hold it in place. Now I have a thread injector and your motivational pics I don't have an excuse not to make a fitted model.
    Thanks for posting.

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    Great looking bug net! Been loving my time at the machine lately.
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    You did an awesome job dude! I think a lot of non-sewers can apply this to other bugnet projects too.

    Fronkey

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