Different width fabric questions for double layer hammocks.
Ok, so lots of 60" wide fabric isn't. Sometimes a little more, sometimes much more, then there's the whole usable fabric thing.
One can cut the fabric, get a nice straight, sealed edge with a hot knife and a lovely fabric table. Or like me at the moment, sewing in a little back room, small round table, no nice big fabric table, no open floor space, you can roll hem the long sides of both pieces and hope for the best.
Well, roll hemmed 48ft of length and I have about an inch mismatch in width. Cutting is not an option because at the moment, I'm not setup for a clean straight cut. Yes, I have plans for some old drafting tables and nice cutting surfaces, but for today I'm just going to top stitch the hems together.
Maybe roll one again?
Roll them together and have a weird different color edge on one side of the hammock?
Just fold the wider edge in again and top stitch the rolled hems and call it good?
Figured I'd ask before sewing this last 12 feet and hearing, "No! Never do that!"
Guessing this is a very common thing and most people cut it? Or just bury it in the finishing hem?
If it matters, the lighter, stretchier 1.1oz is the narrow piece, intended to be the inside and the wider is the Argon 1.6oz, intended to be the outside but feels so dang good against the skin, it ought to be the inside. Now I have to order more fabric with the color scheme reversed.
And is there a way to maybe use a zipper to hide my lazy, no cutting technique?
This hammock will be prototyping my integrated bug net. Trying to innovate a little and make it just a bit different than that which is currently available. At least as much as I can given that I'm attaching a net to a hammock.
Thanks for any suggestions. Switching off the thread injector for tonight and going outside to get just a little more hang time before National Hammock Day comes to end.
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