Why sleeping bag ,Why?
There is no modern noise around; instead there is the hum of
insects, almost like surround sound. The
fire is built high and warm in the pit. My kid’s faces are sticky from
smores. We have family prayer then tuck
the kids into their sleeping bags as I read to them out of the current family
novel. Then my husband comments on a
rip in one of our girl’s sleeping bag. I
pause briefly in my reading to lean over and look at the rip.
At first I am only as annoyed as someone who drops their
pencil on the ground when they need to be taking notes in school. I continue to read to the kids till they fall
asleep. I enjoy the different kind of
noise that camping is for our family.
When we get home we start cleaning things then putting them
away. The sleeping bag and some quilts go
into the mending basket for fixing. As I
pull out the sleeping bag, I again wonder; why do companies usually make their sleeping
bags out of such breakable fabric? I
would use this kind of fabric as a liner in a men’s suit vest, not a sleeping
bag that needs to take a beating. It
could be too costly to do a better fabric, or the company picked it because it
can if cleaned up quickly when it gets wet it stays dry. It’s certainly not because it does a good job
at keeping in body heat. Maybe it’s because
it is flame resistant. I am not sure of the reason, I have thought about it (it’s
been like a mosquito bite in my brain) and I cannot figure out what the
designer is thinking in using such a material.
The material frays easily, badly, it literally comes apart at the seams.
It’s a material that is meant to be puncture as little as possible and treated
gently.
Despite my in-ability to figure out the reasons behind the materials
that were chosen to construct the sleeping bag. I still have to deal with the
results. How to I keep “that” fabric
from fraying again if I stitch it back together? Here is what I came up with to
fix the sleeping bag rip.
Step #1
I took pink thread and loosely stitched down the rips.
Step #2
I took school glue and smeared the glue on the all the seams
spreading it out ½ inch wide on each side of the seam and let it dry.
Step #3
I took ribbon from a reed hat that was broken beyond repair.
I picked the hot glue off the ribbon.
Step #4
When the glue was dry I pinned the pink ribbon over the
frayed seam.
Step#5
I stitched down the ribbon. Making sure to have my seams
inside of where I had glued. I did this in hopes that the now stiff fabric
would not fray from the stitches.
Materials
Pink
thread- left over from someone else’s project 0.00
Pink ribbon- from a
broken hat 0.00
Glue- from
home school supplies 0.00
Total
Cost
0.00
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