Winter tents – unsupported fabric span between poles in tunnel tents

[Paul McLaughlin]

Sewing crossover sleeves is not really that bad. Two ways to do it, depending on how you are doing your sleeves:

1. if you are doing your sleeves as a tube, attached at one line, then each tube gets sewed to the fly fabric and at the junction the second tube is not sewn to the fly for an inch or two where it makes the crossing.
2. If you are doing your sleeves as a flat piece sewn to the fly at two lines, one each side, so that you have a tube composed of the sewn on strip and the fly that it is sewn to, (2 layers total) then the sleeve that crosses over has to be done differently, so that it is a complete tunnel that is sewn to the fly along both edges of teh tunnel (3 layers total. Then, at teh junction, that tube is not sewn to the fly at all for a couple inches, sot that the first sleeve can run through without being interrupted by stitching lines for the second tube.

[James Marco]

Yeah, I was thinking of #2 above.  Thanks, Paul.

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