Hal, I've made four sprayskirts and one hatch cover out of 2mm and 3mm neoprene, and I looked really macho while I was sewing them on my wife's sewing machine. Sewing neoprene with a regular home sewing machine is difficult, because the home machine isn't heavy duty enough and the neoprene is thick and kind of sticky with being like rubber. I even tried all kinds of needles and tension combinations on the machine. I was able to sew the neoprene, but the stitching didn't look very nice. My mother, an expert sewer and former part time employee at one of those fabric stores tried and didn't have much luck either. Your wife may want to experiment with some small pieces of neoprene before you two invest much in materials and patterns. If she is able to sew the neoprene well on the home machine, please tell me how she did it. Duane Strosaker Macho Sewing Man! <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/pirateseakayaker/index.html">Pirate Sea Kayaker</A> *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 18 2000 - 16:35:43 PST
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