Need fabric recommendation for lawn targets

Square Peg · 2009-04-29T05:31:35+00:00

I would like to make several targets for practicing golf shots. Thesewould be circles of various sizes from from about a 1-yard radius upto a 5-yard radius -- possibly a bit larger.I have been using rope, which works fairly well, but it's difficult tolay out the rope in a nice circle and keep it that way. It occurred tome that if I could make circles out of some heavy fabric like acanvas, it might retain the circle shape a little better.My plan is be to get a piece of fabric, cut the fabric into arcs ofthe correct radius, then sew then together into a circle.I would appreciate comments or suggestions on:1. What's the best fabric to get? My first thought was canvas. Thereis a canvas shop near here that makes tents and awnings. I was inthere several years ago. They have lots of canvas. I plan to go askthem what they recommend. Is there another fabric I should consider?2. Will my wife's sewing machine handle the canvas?3. What's the best way to connect the arcs? I was just going tooverlap them about an inch and sew along both edges, maybe using azig-zag stitch that goes over the edge.4. How do I finish the edges? Do I fold the edge over and sew it downor sew to edge tape (bias tape?)?5. How wide whould the strips be? I was thinking 2-3" for the smallercircles and maybe 1" wider for each yard of radius.Anything else I should know about or think about?Thanks

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Bruce Fletcher (remove denture 17 years ago

Many thanks for that - most informative

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