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shalmestere last night. A manufacturer in India will sell us the canvas part of a tent for about $600, but we have to provide poles, stakes, and ropes ourselves (because they're so expensive to ship). A manufacturer in the US will provide everything for $2800. Or, of course, we could finish building the one we started years ago. We could afford the $2800, but the result would look just like every other tent from that manufacturer, and we could spend the same money on musical instruments, and it would be interesting and educational to build it ourselves. Tentatively decided to try to finish our own before next Pennsic.
So I found the roof-caps (two, complete) and roof-skirt (mostly complete) and took some measurements. One half of the roof-skirt measures 103" one seam allowance in from the top edge, the other half 108". One roof-cap measures 101" a seam allowance in from the bottom edge and folded in half, the other roof-cap 104". Or something like that. But the longer half of the roof-skirt includes an 83" single-piece center panel, while the shorter half includes an 80" center panel made from two rectangles of fabric sewn together in the center, so if I insert a false seam in the middle of the single-piece center panel, it'll add strength and symmetry as well as bringing the two halves closer to the same length. I ripped out the seam at one end of the single-piece center panel (this seam had been sewn with the bottom ends matched, rather than the top ends matched as in all the other seams), and the seam at its other end was already only pinned rather than sewn. Didn't actually sew anything last night, but I know what the next three seams should be. Then there's the problem of the two not-quite-matching roof caps. Ideally, their peak-to-peak measurements would both correspond to the width of the center panels on the skirt. Do I take in a seam on the longer one, or try to extend the shorter one, or just use a bigger seam allowance on the longer one (and ignore that the peak-to-peak measurements don't quite match one another)?
shalmestere last night. A manufacturer in India will sell us the canvas part of a tent for about $600, but we have to provide poles, stakes, and ropes ourselves (because they're so expensive to ship). A manufacturer in the US will provide everything for $2800. Or, of course, we could finish building the one we started years ago. We could afford the $2800, but the result would look just like every other tent from that manufacturer, and we could spend the same money on musical instruments, and it would be interesting and educational to build it ourselves. Tentatively decided to try to finish our own before next Pennsic.So I found the roof-caps (two, complete) and roof-skirt (mostly complete) and took some measurements. One half of the roof-skirt measures 103" one seam allowance in from the top edge, the other half 108". One roof-cap measures 101" a seam allowance in from the bottom edge and folded in half, the other roof-cap 104". Or something like that. But the longer half of the roof-skirt includes an 83" single-piece center panel, while the shorter half includes an 80" center panel made from two rectangles of fabric sewn together in the center, so if I insert a false seam in the middle of the single-piece center panel, it'll add strength and symmetry as well as bringing the two halves closer to the same length. I ripped out the seam at one end of the single-piece center panel (this seam had been sewn with the bottom ends matched, rather than the top ends matched as in all the other seams), and the seam at its other end was already only pinned rather than sewn. Didn't actually sew anything last night, but I know what the next three seams should be. Then there's the problem of the two not-quite-matching roof caps. Ideally, their peak-to-peak measurements would both correspond to the width of the center panels on the skirt. Do I take in a seam on the longer one, or try to extend the shorter one, or just use a bigger seam allowance on the longer one (and ignore that the peak-to-peak measurements don't quite match one another)?
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