First Sewing problems

Despite the title of this post, all is more-or-less proceeding well with the Jib assembly.  Tonight, I was able to sew in the corner patches and begin the process of double-hemming the foot and leech.  There is where I found my first problem.

Becca's home machine does not have the umph to really go through the double hem where it overlaps the patches, and needs a little hand assist.  Also, some assistance is needed to ensure it feeds correctly, due to the slipperiness of the Dacron fabric. (The latter issue came forewarned from SailRite)

Took some trial and error, but most of the stitches along the foot are evenly spaced.  Good thing I started this project in the mindset that not everything had to be perfect, just good enough to be safe and not too ugly.

The other thing I learned for you beginning sail makers out there, is that tanbark fabric is really hard to see through.  The instructions from SailRite that say that you should be able to easily see through the fabric pretty much assume you are using the more common white sailcloth.  I found it useful to mark my seams with chalk, which I stole from the kids' bucket in the back yard.

The foot is finished, the leech remains.  After that, all I have left to do is the reinforcing tape along the luff and to set the grommets.  I expect to finish it this weekend, as I won't have time to work on it tomorrow night.

Expect pictures of the finished product by weekend's end.  Then I'll tackle the bigger project of sewing the mainsail.