Just something I'd like to try in the future. Can anyone point me in direction of instructions for making one?
Probably simple but I haven't even taken my sewing machine out of the box yet, hehe.
Thanks in advance!
Kirk
Just something I'd like to try in the future. Can anyone point me in direction of instructions for making one?
Probably simple but I haven't even taken my sewing machine out of the box yet, hehe.
Thanks in advance!
Kirk
This recent thread answered some questions I had in my mind too:
http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ghlight=bishop
Good luck!
"Pips"
Mountains have a dreamy way
Of folding up a noisy day
In quiet covers, cool and gray.
---Leigh Buckner Hanes
Surely, God could have made a better way to sleep.
Surely, God never did.
What I call a black bishop sack is just a stuff sack with a hole in the bottom, not the double ended stuff sack. I may be incorrect on this.
I make a button hole (with a little reinforcement) on the bottom of mine. If your sewing machine does it automatically, use that function. If not, this link shows you how to do it with just a zig zag.
http://www.thru-hiker.com/projects/m...buttonhole.php
Here is a stuff sack tutorial to make one to an exact (approximate) size. Do this and put a buttonhole in the bottom. Reinforce the button hole with something (bias tape, webbing works ok, several layers of scrap nylon, best is the stuff you you back embroidery with)
http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=22271
FWIW, I PM'd Keith (blackbishop351) to see if he wanted to post some directions for the way he made them... I have not heard back from him.<shrug>
Sounds like everyone has it handled anyway.
"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities." - Mark Twain
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” - John Burroughs
I do not have the sewing skills (yet) or more importantly the desire to scratch-build a Bishop Bag in the configuration that I want.
So, I am going to start with three identical stuffsacks. I will add a reinforced patch for a "grommet" in the main one opposite the drawcord opening. My WBBB straps and buckle on that end will be semi-permanantly attached.
The other two stuffsacks will have their bottoms cut off and saved for future use. Each of the draw-corded ends will be sewn to the main sack as I have attempted to show in this drawing. Now the wet and/or dirty straps will have a place to reside.
At least, that is my plan.
Jim
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