Altizer Sunblock Outdoor Fabric
"Peekaboo" in Chocolate
I ordered a total of 7.5 yards
Sewing the J Channel "rope" out of a piece cut from one strip the length of the fabric - The white stripe makes a good guide for me, and will go inside of the J channel and not be seen.
The first piece to be sewn will be the last piece to be sewn on the awning
Every piece was zig-zag bound to keep it from fraying, and double seamed.
This is the center seam - Two pieces, each 3 yards long were sewn together side to side (so that the white stripe lined up appropriatly with the design) and then sewn together with a flat felled seam
Getting ready to flip it over for the double stitched flat felled seam...
It looks like this on both sides, and I can't explain exactly how it was done.
Hopefully a picture IS worth a thousand words. ;)
The two pieces are one now. The seam is at the center.
Close up of the zig zag at the scalloped edge -
it still needs to be bound.
Sewing the welt around the inside all along the seams for extra strength.
The flap piece is a double of the fabric -
sewn in at each corner and at center where the grommets will go for extra durability.
The awning is installed in the J Channel - it went in perfectly!
I still have to buy one more tent pole, since it takes three now, instead of the original two that I thought it would require....and then I will pull it out in the yard to set it up.
The dimensions are 8.5 x 8.5 with a 10" drop on the scallop edge.
ONE MORE PICTURE of it all set up - to follow!
