Mary Ostler

At this point I had not realized I had screwed up the template. I marked out all the sections on the painters tarp with wax tailor markers. The template was longer than the tarp, so I ended up using the wasted space at the corners to make up for the short lengths of canvas.

Hard to see in the photo, but there are red lines on the canvas waiting to be cut.

You can see where the additional canvas was sewn on to the end of each panel. 12 feet long.

When I was sewing the pieces together I pinned the seams together to make sure they matched up nicely.

A shot of the tarp almost complete. One side was going to be left open to make painting details on the canvas easier.

The outside edges were all bound over with canvas bias tape. I used up just about every square inch of fabric on this tent. The left over easily fit into one hand.