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 Last Festival, we used the barn tent and struggled with the mould and disrepair. But the shape was great as an open plan kitchen, dining and living room.
As Festival finished, I started a draft of what a replacement might look like and I reviewed that list this morning (after I gave up on using Twitter to stay in bed for a bit longer).
Now I'm wondering if the rectangularised version of my sleeping bell might be a good option? There's info about it on my other blog here.
I'm also wondering if one of the 4 versions out there might be available for us to borrow or buy - much easier than making one from scratch! Otoh, we couldn't have removable walls with a borrowed tent.
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Just updated my blog on the new tent - now to fix it!

The tent is a good size, fitting our double bed, a comfy dressing space at one end and space for armour storage at the other. At the end of the week, we reduced the size of the dressing space and put our daughter’s rope bed at the end.

More here
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After some discussion yesterday, and then a query on a mailing list, I've put up two new posts on tents;

Tent Introduction

Designing the Circus tent


I also re-found my flickr photos of sewing the dining tent.  The topic of a post that I'll make another time.

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I'm mucking around, designing a tent for Innilgard and I'm finding stuff, which I"ll stick here.

this is the tent/picture I used as the basis for the painted design on mine.

Here is the largest tent I have ever seen. I might be making a modified version of it for Innilgard.

The tent in the foreground is very cute. The one in the rear is possibly the right proportions for the I'gard tent.




Actually, I've gone for the fogliani tent I've admired for a long time. The one in my new tentmaking icon. I've done the maths for the roof pattern and I've spent the last 20 minutes castigating myself for my inability to work out the shape of the truncated cone I need for the walls. It appears I lose my logic abilities after 11pm. Not surprising really.
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I now have 3 glorious days to fritter away doing stuff on the following lists. The things I could do today are green, the stuff I was going to do yesterday are purple

Festival preparation;
  • proof soldiers tents
  • cut out big tent
  • spend a day sewing the big tent
  • work out what I'm going to do about clothes for festival - I've been feeling frumpy lately
  • work out layout of our tentage and book for festival
  • Book Binka into a kennel
  • secret project

Domesticity
  • supermarket shopping
  • reorganise my budget

Mothering
  • hem T's other uniform
  • hem T's blazer sleeves
  • get the 2 books on the booklist we weren't able to get
  • Shop for a guitar for Z
  • be home at 3.30 to greet children returning from their first day of school
  • Nag G to complete the things he said he wants to do (I'm his mother, it's my job
Renovating
  • book a termite inspection
  • decide which company should replace my back fence and tell them
  • organise to get a new back door
  • Go to the house of noodles and bears and work on their bathroom

Stuff for me
  • shop for work clothes
  • Buy the 2 Kerry Greenwood novels people have been talking about and read them
  • design and make some clothes for work

In other news, Max is back - again. We heard the miouw at 12.30 last night, after G and I had a conversation about how rejected we felt that we weren't the sort of place that could keep a cat (Max is our third). He's a maniac, all three bedrooms have stories of being kept awake for the 2 hours between 5am and 7am. We've also given up on him being an inside cat. If we give him open access to outside we figure maybe he can work out how to come inside again within 24 hours. It seems to be working.
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I think I've had a productive day.

I have designed and worked out cutting layouts and canvas quantities for our new tents. We are using the tents from this picture for our design.

[livejournal.com profile] mr_bassman and I are having one of the large, tall ones. Like this:


And if you look carefully, you can find 2 soldiers tents like this one


I'm particularly proud of that picture, I had to teach myself to use 3D Autocad for that.

I also had someone over to measure my asbestos for removal, persuaded 2 children to go to school, and emptied 2 boxes from the Family room.

I shall now retire, virtuously, to bed.

tents

Jun. 27th, 2004 11:18 pm
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Starting to think seriously about tents - making, designing without waiting until two weeks before festival.

I'm searching for soldiers tents - so the kids don't have to share with us.

Here are some things I found.

http://home.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/ma/tents/pictures/de.machinis.html

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~nh0g/tent.html

http://www.past-tents.demon.co.uk/frame.htm

I also did a CAD drawing of our bed, put the tent centre pole about 50cm away from the bed and drew a circle to include the bed, with a bit of leeway either side. It would be 5m in diameter. When the pole is about 10cm from the edge of the bed, the tent is 4m diameter. For tents 3.3m, 3.6m and 3.9m, the resultant rope diameter is 8.8m, 8m and 7.4m. That's based on a tent with a shoulder height of 1.8m => is that too high?

Here is a link to the drawing I did. )
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