So, yesterday, the last of my materials came in for my primaloft UQ. As soon as the little one was in bed, i was measuring and cutting. Thanks to my wife, that didn't take 4 days (as it would if i had been doing it by myself).
I decided to go with ~60x46" for the total dimensions. i was initially going to try for a differential cut with 48" on the bottom layer and 46" on the top, but i realized that i forgot to do the pleats after i finished the seam on the last of the 4 sides. i don't know that it would have made much of a difference anyways. from what i understand, primaloft is not quite as ornery as IX about having lots of airspace in between.
I used 2 layers of primaloft that i got from http://therainshed.com/. One layer was 3 oz the other was 4 oz so i have a total of 7 oz of primaloft sandwiched between two layers of 1.1 oz ripstop from http://www.diygearsupply.com/ Based on what i've read other places, i'm hoping this will get me down into the 20's. Does this sound about right?
it compresses pretty well. i made a stuff sack for it (don't know that i'll use the stuff sack though, because i kinda botched that part of the project) that's pretty tight, but i could compress it down more if i wanted to. it's probably a little bigger than a football in the stuff sack, but like i said, it can compress smaller.
This diy thing gets addicting. i'm sure this isn't the prettiest UQ out there, but there's something really satisfying about knowing that i made it. also learned several things that will make it much easier for next time. here's a couple pics (yes, it did happen)
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