Summer vacation

[bobbin]

I've been off this week (furloughed, actually) and decided to do the awnings for my shop:

Fabrics are all Sattler offerings, the bullion fringe is 100% acrylic (5" and increasingly hard to find!). 

4 small windows:  40"wX24"hX24"p
2 triple mullions:  111"wX24"hX24"p
                        111"wX26"hX26"p (front windows)

http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL889/1214523/9177286/397894901.jpg ; this is the basic plan and explains the way the blank is cut.
http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL889/1214523/9177286/397894902.jpg ; this is a close up of the side of one of the awnings.
Adding the welting to the lower edge of the frill:  http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL889/1214523/9177286/397894903.jpg
Clean finishing the inside edge of the frill:  http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL889/1214523/9177286/397894906.jpg
Tassel making 101:  http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL889/1214523/9177286/397894939.jpg
http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL889/1214523/9177286/397894936.jpg
http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL889/1214523/9177286/397894938.jpg
How to afix tassels to the frill:  http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL889/1214523/9177286/397894920.jpg

And here's the finished product:
http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL889/1214523/9177286/397894944.jpg
http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL889/1214523/9177286/397894941.jpg

[Peppy]

Nice! These are laced on I guess? And you'll take them down every winter?

I like the shaped valence, but I love the tassels!  You don't happen to have any other dangly bits lying around do you? Say 9 yards of teal ball fringe?

[bobbin]

Peppy, these are loose frame awnings, and there is no lacing involved.  Look at the first 2 pictures and look for the "rod pocket casing"; there is a "horse shoe" shaped frame for the bottom of the awing that slips through those casings and holds the awning away from the building when it's screwed into a "camel" on the building, and a straight "head rod" at the very top that is afixed to the building with heat rod clamps.  Really simple!  Basic loose frame hardware hasn't changed in nearly 150 yrs..

I've had a helluva time finding 100% acrylic bullion fringe in the past few years.  It used to be a "staple" of the awning trade but it's lately fallen out of favor and it's become hard to find.  If I'd been able to find it on rolls I'd have fringed the entire frill.  But the tassels were a fun way to accent the lower edge.  I'm a sucker for that stuff, too. 

[Mojo]

The awnings look great.

That shop is awesome.

Love it. :)

Chris

[Mike8560]

Looks
great !
That's tour shop heck you could live in there is it ajacent to your home?
Make my shop look like a closet

[baileyuph]

Very nice Bobbin, exhibits sophistication not over done.  Lot's of thought put into the general area, besides the building.  The fence is noted for being out of the ordinary.  Can't say enough about what is going on in the pictures.

More on the analytical side, the building is approximately 1000 to 1100 sq. ft. each floor?  Something about 42' X 26' as a guess?

It is assumed the upper level is the actualy sewing/perhaps shop area.

Very nice, good place to go on a furlough.

Thanks for showing, love it, love it!

Doyle

[sofadoc]

It is assumed the upper level is the actualy sewing/perhaps shop area.

All you need is a pole to slide down, like they have at the fire station.
GREAT looking shop! Here's to wishing you a long furlough. ;D

[bobbin]

The barn is 28X36, 6" stud wall construction, fully insulated.  The roof is supported by "attic trusses" so there are no bearing walls on the second floor (my shop area), and there is a ton of storage in the attic.  (I wanted to paint it red, but we negotiated the color).  The house would be over your left shoulder in the shots. 

There are 6 awning windows on the road side of building that I would like to cover, but I haven't quite come up with the complete "look" just yet... want to continue the theme, but do something a little different; not just a basic, loose frame awning.  I have a couple of ideas rattling around in my head and am working with a skilled colleague on them.  We used to work together and this was a fun project because he was willing to make the time to refresh my memory on framing, rigging, and installation. 

Thanks!

[Mike8560]

Veery nice reminds me of up county in née Hampshire
were are you Bobbin.

[Mojo]

Mike:

I am thinking you and I should both retire and move up there and live with Bobbin. She has the room.  ;D

Of course I am sure she would be thrilled to death over having two more men driving her nuts around the house.  :o

Just think of all the toys we could park in that garage.....lol

Chris

[bobbin]

Chris, you'd love the "bat cave entrance", our "back driveway" that was originally a trolley bed.  Contractors with heavy trucks were shocked when we'd tell them about it and give them their options... they could drive in without fear of breaking the road and even turn around easily.  My brother loved parking his camper out there; cool, shaded, quiet and an easy reach for a heavy duty extension cord.  My late FIL was an architect, with a specialty in landscape architecture.  He did a TON of work designing public parks (on the National and State level) and he was unbelievably helpful with suggestions about how to make the front driveway and entry appealing and easily negotiable for large service trucks.  Ditto the "bat cave entrance".  The UPS guy and the oil and gas delivery guys love driveway, lol. 

Barn is already nicely "full" thanks.  "My half" is clean and organized... the "other" half? not so much.  But I'm good with it, since he lives here, too.  ;)

[Hell Bat]

All looks and sound pretty super,very nice set up,ya did a great job with it. ;D

[needles eye]

far out awnings, and, super cool   8)
also, many thanks for teaching me something in your thread,
stay cool

[Mojo]

So your saying my coach will make it through the batcave entrance and there is electric available.

Hmmmmmm............ Ya know I have always wanted to visit your area.  ;D

Chris

[Mike8560]

Go in the summer Chris
I don't think you'll like the snow  in me.  Well she near the ocean so maybe  it's not too bad.
Just put a plow on your coach.
Speaking of that I had a truck turn around in mt driveway  the other day. With a plow rig   Not the blade but all the mechanics