Attachment 116522
Attachment 116523
Used the Costco throws as TQ and UQ this past weekend for 2 nights at a state park camp out with the scout troop. Temps around 60 for lows, so no real challenge, but I was toasty, so I'm hoping to go to maybe mid 40s with this setup and clothing as needed.
I made the UQ by folding the quilt in half to end up with a 35" x 60" rectangle, as opposed to a 30" x 70" rectangle. Well, almost in half, leaving the "outside" panel a little wider to keep it from being compressed. Then, I made a channel out of some ripstop and attached it to the head and foot ends, just on the "outside" edge, and put some Kam snaps between the two halves on the ends. Ran some shock cord through the channel and added cord locks to cinch up any gaps when laying in the hammock. Then I attached some grosgrain loops (red is all I had
to the four corners and safety pinned the open side together (later sewed this shut) and ran shock cord under the fold, loops and sewed side in one piece all the way around to allow for sliding the whole thing to position under me as needed. For the TQ, I just added a channel of nano no see-um mesh to one end of the quilt (what I had laying around) and ran some zing-it and a cord lock to cinch the end. Stayed on my feet fine, but I will probably add some length of Velcro to the open side at the bottom to make more of a foot box to help hold my sit pad for colder temps. I'm 75", so I didn't want to shorten the TQ at all. Great, easy DIY project for a newb like me. I just got a sewing machine, er.. thread injector, a couple of weeks ago, and I've been having a blast learning how to make stuff sacks, sew a hammock, and now these quilts. Only my second post, but I've learned so much from this forum in such a short time. Happy hanging!
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