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

[shalandara.livejournal.com]

Nice!!!

(I'm jealous now. I want one.)

[reasdream.livejournal.com]

ooooh pretty!

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Oooherrr... sexy.

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

plumb spiffy!

[danabren.livejournal.com]

The courtesy you've shown by making it tall enough for normal people to walk through without needing to duck means that you will be blessed by angels.

[silverstah.livejournal.com]

Oh, cuteness! I really, really need to make me one of those. They're dirt-simple, I just need to *do it*.

What did you use for your fabric? I don't have any canvas, but I have a metric butt-ton of 9 oz cotton twill - wonder if that would work, if I sprayed it with that Canvak stuff?

That's awesome!

[kittyblue.livejournal.com]

How hard is it to make the poles, given I've no real experience with tools? Because I really feel bad mooching off other people's shade at events, since there's no way I could get a pavilion of my own (or store it, or fit it in the car)- I'd like to make one that's got 5' poles and is thus just high enough to shade me while seated or napping at a day event, but the upright bits still manage to go into the station wagon all right. (I'm not even going to assume I could manage poles that would be in two pieces and fit together somehow, the way Panther has center poles with 'sleeves' on them. Nuh-uh.)

(We don't really get weather in SoCal, so all I'd really need would be to go buy a canvas tarp or two, right?)

[boneshard.livejournal.com]

"Dayshade" sounds like a cheap series of Vampire Romance novels. :)

[valkyr8.livejournal.com]

That is very pretty! Very delicate design.

[annerism.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful!