The dayshade lives!

[melaniesuzanne]

Hubbyfink and I erected the dayshade behind the neighbor's house (the land is slightly flatter) this morning so we (meaning he) could spray the shade down with Canvak. I snapped photos before the spraying began.

	Dayshade front, 6/13/09. The design on the valance is composed of two stencils: the blue curliques and the gold medallions. The curlique stencil has lotus flowers as well, but I taped over them.
	Dayshade side, 6/13/09. The poles in front are 7' and the poles in back are 6.5'. With ropes, the shade's footprint is approx 16'x16'.
	Dayshade rear, 6/13/09.

We also worked on the clothing rack by cutting down the uprights and rod to the correct lengths and staining the rod. I need to look for the appropriately sized bit to make the holes for the rod, make those holes, give everything a good sanding and then stain the uprights. At this rate, the only Pennsic project left will be painting the pavilion. Oof.

Comments

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Yep. I messed up the flat-fell seam on my first attempt and then I found this tutorial on Master Terafan Greydragon's site. Aside from a couple of places where my fabric bunched up, the seam looks pretty good.

I also flat-felled the valance to the roof, but that wound up looking ugly so I pulled that seam towards the inside of the shade and sewed another seam, which basically made that join look like a French seam. That had the side effect of shortening my valance's height by about three inches. D'oh! Oh well, that's what learning curves are for, right?

[silverstah.livejournal.com]

Oooh - good tutorial on the flat-felled seam, thank you!

Hee! Yep, that's what learning curves are for.

Thanks for posting this - I'm really inspired!