So in my quest to make a lightweight and fast setup/takedown tarp, I added some 2 gram pouches on the opposite side of each tie out point. The idea is that I can quickly stuff the line with my line tensioner and lineloc attached to the Tie-out D ring. The pouch is made from an 8"x8" square piece of pocket mesh, a 16" piece of 1.75 Zing-It and a mini cord lock. It allows me to cinch up the pouch and lock it, ensuring when I take out my tarp, I don't have a bunch of cables all tangled together and I didn't have to spend the time to wrap or figure 8 the cables.
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1) I started with an 8" x 8" piece of pocket mesh (this when folded into a triangle is the same size as my triangle tie-out reinforcement on the other side). Use what you want to cut, but for this type of work, I prefer rotary cutters on cutting boards.
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2) Next fold over into a triangle and stitch around the 90 degree sides
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3) Make a slit in one side of the non stitched side (if you remember the Pythagorean theorem, it would be the hypotenuse side ;-)
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4) Weave your cord/line around the slit and add the mini cord lock
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5) As you stitch it to the other side of you tie-out reinforcement, you can ruffle up the edge to make the pouch more pronounced and effective
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Here it is on my DiY tarp. This is that awesome Argon 1.06 Sil Nylon from Dutch, with a piece of Oxford 200D sewn to the main side.
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Since I used Gold Gutermann Mara on the Oxford 200D and black Gutermann Mara to attach the pouch, you can barely see the pouch stitching on the front. You can see the cord lock poking around from the back..
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Each pouch with mesh, the line and cord lock weighs only 2 grams.
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After getting the first one the way I wanted it, I kicked out the other 5...
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