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Aug 10, 2011 at 1:59 pm #1277876
I made this tarp a little while ago and have been practicing pitching it in my backyard, testing different pitching techniques. I live in the Mojave desert, and the wind ALWAYS blows, so to keep the tarp from blowing around I set the guy-lines pretty tight, and I been noticing the stitching holes around the ridge-line guy-out reinforcements were getting stretched open quite a bit (see pics). Now, I don't know exactly what do do about it. Can I just add a 2nd row of stitching behind the first to distribute the load over more fabric? Should I rip out all the stitching and replace the reinforcements with larger patches of 70d fabric? If I don't do anything, is this thing going to rip wide open?
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BMAug 10, 2011 at 7:32 pm #17680392nd row of stitching would probably work. Have it several stitch lengths away from the first row of stitching. I don't think those holes are heading towards a catastophic failure, but you probably want to reinforce it somehow
You could add a 2nd reinforcing piece bigger than the first. A couple stitch lengths bigger in every direction. Put a row of stitching on both sides of the original row that has the stretched open holes.
Nice – blue thread for the blue fabric and black thread for the black webbing
Aug 11, 2011 at 9:16 am #1768204Thanks for the help. I'll get it strengthened here in a bit.
As for the colors of the thread, I did mess up in one place. I was using that extra strength gutterman black thread on the grosgrain loops, but later on in my sewing I decided to put another pull out on the center of the ridgeline, and when I went to sew on that reinforcement patch I forgot the change the thread. I have many kids, so I do this stuff late at night after they are out of my hair, and I didn't notice until it was too late, and I wasn't going to rip it out and redo it at that point.
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