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leon-b said:
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leon-b said:
- it is a leather odds and sods pouch, (hand stitched) I use it to keep my firelighting kit in - if you line it with a plastic ziploc type sandwich bag they make great bags to store your bannock ingredients too.leon-b said:
You can indeed! - is the fabric cotton or poly cotton - if polycotton it would be better (in my limited opinion) to use a nylon thread
leon-b said:
either way i'd still go for something like polyester thread - it's much stronger!
and backstitching is better than a straight running stitch. (here is a link to a clear 'stitches' website)
leon-b said:
Leon, great to see your enthusiasm, keep it up.
One thing that I say to my explorer scouts is don't get too hung up on what wood you are burning when you start out, just pick up what is available and see what happens when you set fire to it Quite often you have to make do with what is readiuly available anyway.
After a while you will get to recognise the burning properties by how the wood feels in your hand, roughly speaking the lighter it is to pick up the quicker it will catch fire but it won't last too long and conversely denser heaveir wood will last longer.
The ideal is to start with stuff that lights easily and have some denser stuff ready and waiting to take over once the light stuff is goning nicely.
You could do worse than see if you can get hold of a cheap BBQ and practice firelighting in your back garden.
Z
Somebody once showed me a really useful trick for sewing stright seams which involed using Grpah paper as a pattern.leon-b said:
Cut a sheet of graph paper into 2cm strips then clue them together so it forms one long strip but trim the ends and line them up so the grid is contiuous over the joins (if you see what I mean) and you end up with a 2M paper tape of graph paper.
Stick a length of this where you are going to sew with double sided tape and then stitch TROUGH the paper using the grid to tell you where to poke the needle. When you are done just tear out the graph paper.
If you want to make fancy paterns then just draw them on the graph paper first, uisng sepeate lines to represent each stich. Its easier than it sounds.
I can't guarantee that it will work forst time but it has helped me loads over the years
Zodiak said:Leon, great to see your enthusiasm, keep it up.
One thing that I say to my explorer scouts is don't get too hung up on what wood you are burning when you start out, just pick up what is available and see what happens when you set fire to it Quite often you have to make do with what is readiuly available anyway.
After a while you will get to recognise the burning properties by how the wood feels in your hand, roughly speaking the lighter it is to pick up the quicker it will catch fire but it won't last too long and conversely denser heaveir wood will last longer.
The ideal is to start with stuff that lights easily and have some denser stuff ready and waiting to take over once the light stuff is goning nicely.
You could do worse than see if you can get hold of a cheap BBQ and practice firelighting in your back garden.
Z
when it came round to lighting the fire i did indeed just use what was available regardless of what wood it was
leon
i have finished sewing my bag and it wasnt that hard once i got going, i backstiched it to get it as strong as i could, one thing i will do next time is make the stiches smaller, but the bag is useable i will post some pictures soon
leon
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