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Tent seam take 2.
Mar. 21st, 2007 10:10 amSecond attempt: Resulting seam is wrinklier than I would like and I have the nasty suspision that I need to unpick it and redo it. Except that I am not that happy with how many more holes that puts in a part of the tent integral to holding it up - getelds being tensioned up by the walls themselves, rather than any external ropes. Suspect it is due to the starting and stopping of feeding the fabric through, not something that can be helped with one person and the size of the table. If I concentrate on the smoothness of feeding, I muck up the overlap. If I get the overlap right, I am feeding jerkily and the bottom piece of fabric wrinkles.
And there are 7 seams to go (we will ignore the heming of pieces still to go).
Sigh.
So, step away from the canvas, roll it up and put it in a corner. Grab the naalbinding or go out to the garage and sand wax tablets. Embroider sleeve decorations. Start on the veils. Put photometry into spreadsheets. Surf for jobs.
Anything else.
But we only have about 1 1/2 weeks or contstruction time left.
Note:
Festival 04: (our first) 1 white MOW tent brought over from NZ.
Festival 05: 1 Viking A-frame (newly made), 1 white MOW tent, 1 commercial dome.
Festival 06: 1 Viking A-frame, 2 brown tents (same shape as the white MOW one and newly made), 1 white MOW tent, 1 commercial dome. 1 yellow stripy awning for workshop (was aborted start at tent).
Festival 07: 1 Viking A-frame (frame needing redoing/replacing after ridgebeam snapped last time), 2 brown tents, 1 white MOW tent, 1 commercial dome which will be covered by a yellow stripy tent (converted from awning and newly made), 1 white geteld workshop tent (what I am currently swearing over and not yet complete).
Spot a disturbing trend?
Z was apparently up to about 5 or 6 tents at a peak for CF. He and V together were apparently up to around 9... This was acquiring them second hand, rather than making them though.
And there are 7 seams to go (we will ignore the heming of pieces still to go).
Sigh.
So, step away from the canvas, roll it up and put it in a corner. Grab the naalbinding or go out to the garage and sand wax tablets. Embroider sleeve decorations. Start on the veils. Put photometry into spreadsheets. Surf for jobs.
Anything else.
But we only have about 1 1/2 weeks or contstruction time left.
Note:
Festival 04: (our first) 1 white MOW tent brought over from NZ.
Festival 05: 1 Viking A-frame (newly made), 1 white MOW tent, 1 commercial dome.
Festival 06: 1 Viking A-frame, 2 brown tents (same shape as the white MOW one and newly made), 1 white MOW tent, 1 commercial dome. 1 yellow stripy awning for workshop (was aborted start at tent).
Festival 07: 1 Viking A-frame (frame needing redoing/replacing after ridgebeam snapped last time), 2 brown tents, 1 white MOW tent, 1 commercial dome which will be covered by a yellow stripy tent (converted from awning and newly made), 1 white geteld workshop tent (what I am currently swearing over and not yet complete).
Spot a disturbing trend?
Z was apparently up to about 5 or 6 tents at a peak for CF. He and V together were apparently up to around 9... This was acquiring them second hand, rather than making them though.
