Doing stuff...
Mar. 29th, 2007 11:00 pmSo, viking bed is now able to be slotted together - next stage is to drill the holes for pegging and make the wedges. Mucked up a bit on the slat spacing - slightly too large a gap at the ends, but can cope with that, or fix later if it gets too annoying.
2nd of those 4 seams is now done: staple as offset pair, single row stitch, masking tape down fold over, single row stitch, tear off tape - note for next time that it is easier when centred rather than offset. Much easier and far less swearing. Will set up the next seam and do that tomorrow night or during the day if I can feed the fabric ok - will see given the fabric sizes.
Some lampblack produced. Enough swearing there that Z will check an art supply place on the way home tomorrow.
Currently the hunt is on for the D-ring collection for making eyelets for ground pegging and muttering about how to attach them.
Other than that, sleep time.
Or would be appart from the mad hairbrained scheme plotting... or at least only slightly lunatic and not too bad if we had a black hole with which to help pack things in the car... yes, retrieval is an issue that can be played with later.
2nd of those 4 seams is now done: staple as offset pair, single row stitch, masking tape down fold over, single row stitch, tear off tape - note for next time that it is easier when centred rather than offset. Much easier and far less swearing. Will set up the next seam and do that tomorrow night or during the day if I can feed the fabric ok - will see given the fabric sizes.
Some lampblack produced. Enough swearing there that Z will check an art supply place on the way home tomorrow.
Currently the hunt is on for the D-ring collection for making eyelets for ground pegging and muttering about how to attach them.
Other than that, sleep time.
Or would be appart from the mad hairbrained scheme plotting... or at least only slightly lunatic and not too bad if we had a black hole with which to help pack things in the car... yes, retrieval is an issue that can be played with later.