01-06-2008, 00:07 #11
I think my biggest problem with getting it even (not the stitching, so much as the actual hem & cloth itself) is that I just cant figure out how to make it "square". I dont know if I am saying it right... argh! But the material... crap, its tough to explain...
01-06-2008, 00:43 #12
01-06-2008, 08:10 #13
01-06-2008, 09:05 #14
I do too, but not for sewing! Check at your local fabric dealer.. Oops, I mean shop- for a "cutting board"- should be a large foldable piece of card board with a 1inch grid printed on, (and some other lines you can ignore).
01-06-2008, 09:20 #15
01-06-2008, 13:05 #16
01-06-2008, 14:26 #17
01-06-2008, 15:54 #18
I have a friend that who was working on a sewing project, probably a quilt but not for hammock and knocked the rotary cutter off of the table. She was bare footed at the time. It hit her foot, cut tentons to the big toe, arterys, and nerves in the foot. We keep telling her to wear steel toed boots when she sews.
They are great tools, but I don't have any tools in the shop nearly that sharp. Take care with them.
01-06-2008, 16:23 #19
yeah, even after i was warned by a seamstress friend who was helping me get started, i rolled up against one of my fingers that was holding the cloth in place...Man!!! that boy IS sharp
01-06-2008, 20:43 #20
I made my 3rd stuffsack today. The first was out of a cotton fabric, jsut to see how I would do. The second was out of some 1.1 sil I got from JJ, & I used rolled hems (just to give them a try) and paper clips (just a couple) instead of pins... and I got a sack, but it looks like hell. Todays project came out pretty good. The only real hem was for the drawstring... which is also the weakness in the bag, I just left the trimmed edge of the drawstring channel there, I didnt make a button hole as suggested on the DIY pages... The reason being, I dont know how to make one. heh But I worked on being more precise in my measuring & stitching... pinning the fabric, etc.
I think that I am going to work at cutting a piece of fabric for a long hammock. I figure I will use a piece ~ 144"... I will likely spend tomorrow evening laying that out & squaring it off, then Tuesday evening pinning it, then get to sewing Wednesday & Thursday. Friday I will finish it & have it whipped/knotted & begin bitching at myself for not ordering any spectra or webbing & rings. Where do you all order the load bearing rings from?
01-06-2008, 00:07 #11
I think my biggest problem with getting it even (not the stitching, so much as the actual hem & cloth itself) is that I just cant figure out how to make it "square". I dont know if I am saying it right... argh! But the material... crap, its tough to explain...
01-06-2008, 00:43 #12
01-06-2008, 08:10 #13
01-06-2008, 09:05 #14
I do too, but not for sewing! Check at your local fabric dealer.. Oops, I mean shop- for a "cutting board"- should be a large foldable piece of card board with a 1inch grid printed on, (and some other lines you can ignore).
01-06-2008, 09:20 #15
01-06-2008, 13:05 #16
01-06-2008, 14:26 #17
01-06-2008, 15:54 #18
I have a friend that who was working on a sewing project, probably a quilt but not for hammock and knocked the rotary cutter off of the table. She was bare footed at the time. It hit her foot, cut tentons to the big toe, arterys, and nerves in the foot. We keep telling her to wear steel toed boots when she sews.
They are great tools, but I don't have any tools in the shop nearly that sharp. Take care with them.
01-06-2008, 16:23 #19
yeah, even after i was warned by a seamstress friend who was helping me get started, i rolled up against one of
 my fingers that was holding the cloth in place...Man!!! that boy IS sharp
01-06-2008, 20:43 #20
I made my 3rd stuffsack today. The first was out of a cotton fabric, jsut to see how I would do. The second was out of some 1.1 sil I got from JJ, & I used rolled hems (just to give them a try) and paper clips (just a couple) instead of pins... and I got a sack, but it looks like hell. Todays project came out pretty good. The only real hem was for the drawstring... which is also the weakness in the bag, I just left the trimmed edge of the drawstring channel there, I didnt make a button hole as suggested on the DIY pages... The reason being, I dont know how to make one. heh But I worked on being more precise in my measuring & stitching... pinning the fabric, etc.
I think that I am going to work at cutting a piece of fabric for a long hammock. I figure I will use a piece ~ 144"... I will likely spend tomorrow evening laying that out & squaring it off, then Tuesday evening pinning it, then get to sewing Wednesday & Thursday. Friday I will finish it & have it whipped/knotted & begin bitching at myself for not ordering any spectra or webbing & rings. Where do you all order the load bearing rings from?