Shade Sail

My sewing a room is in the front of the house and it gets quite hot on days like today. I didn't want to spend $45 buying a shade sail, so I I figured, given that I have made bags, quilts and the occasional corset, that I could probably tackle a shade sail.

I bought one metre of shade sail material to make a sail for my front window. The material cost me $15 a metre from Bunnings, it was 180cm wide. I finished the edges in calico (hey, I am doing this on the cheap) with my new 2" bias maker that I found in Lincraft. If I could be bothered driving off to spotlight today, I would have bought some 2 " heading tape.

I double stitched all seams with polyester cotton. The shade sail was attached to a pine post which we scored from my parents.

The front sail has industrial D rings at $8 each from Bunnings, carebena's and D rings to adjust tension. But by the time I got to making the side of the house one, I was lazy and Andreas just screwed them into the house and post!

I cut the front one out of the material making a G string shape (if you can imagine that) and then for the side of the house one, I attached the offcuts together to make another sail. I probably should have trimmed it up a bit more, but it was late in the day and I was tired ....

When we were attaching the back shade, I noticed that one of my roses was in bloom and not singed by the heat.