I just decided that this makes no sense to me and would mean to use my bare and expensiv fabric which I will use for my hammock and tarp later. It could be that I need any cm. Also a roll hem only to demonstrate that my attachments work makes little sense for me - because I know they will work. I will do it different and kill three birds with one stone. I will sew two BB clone mock hammocks about 30" long which are already on my plan. One SL canvas hammock and one DL hammock made from thin plastic bags. I will show then the roll hems I made and also how my mock hammocks look like. Perhaps I use all my attachments on the remaining fabric and make some extra roll hems perhaps on paper. I will make this task even more difficult and go into the extrem (the third bird!). I will use Tera 40 for these projects and try to use it on thin plastic too. Then you can see the roll hems and stich quality better. I think up to midnight I'm perhaps ready. I still have to use my seam ripper first to get enough canvas from an old balcony parasol (sorry Ramlinrev, I have no tapered taylor's awl yet and I'm using my seam ripper the first time. But I see already that this is a bit time consuming to get all the short thread remnants out).Originally Posted by Kpi890
I figured already another interesting point. I'm fairly sure because of litte shadows on the canvas fabric that the parasol manufacturer used a double faced adhesive tape to adjust the seams on this parasol. Then he made two stich lines. A plain seam with one stitch line. And on the edges of the seam allowance he used most likely an blindhem foot or overlockfoot for serging the seam. I just ordered 50m x 4mm stylefix on Ebay to test this technique out. Such a tape can be quite useful when making a double folded seam as Ramblinrev explained in his Video "Making it real". It could save one or two stitching lines and ease the hole sewing procedure. I will try this also with my roll hem attachment for the "plastic bag" DL I have in mind but still without a double faced adhesive tape. First stitch the layers together and next using my roll hem attachment with two layers at the same time. Such a tape can be quite useful when making a double folded seam. It could save one or two stitching lines and ease the hole sewing procedure. I will try this also with my roll hem attachments for the "plastic bag" DL I have in mind but still without a double faced adhesive tape. First stitch the layers together and next using my roll hem attachment with two layers at the same time. I'm already curious whether this works.
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