Sewing Tutorials, Make Your Own Gear!
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Prickly Gorse sewing guides aim to be the definitive guides for starting out making your own outdoor gear, from total beginner to expert. Detailed, beginner friendly instructions and patterns. No confusing abbreviations, all techniques explained, and explanations of why choices are made. You will finish a Prickly Gorse project with a greater understanding, as well as an awesome new bag!
Each guide comes with a free 25 page beginners sewing guide, very detailed instructions tailored to both home and industrial sewing machines, a shopping list, and a printable pattern to give you the best head start on your projects.
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Backpacking
Bikepacking/Cycling/Commuting
Climbing
Sewing Tools
Other Tutorials
Groundsheets
Tyvek is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to make a groundsheet for your tent, tarp, bivvy, UL picnic.
Can be found by the metre on eBay and some ultralight / backpacking / bikepacking websites. It doesn’t fray, so you can simply cut to shape. Tyvek tape can be used to reinforce areas if you want eyelets, but this tape can be a bit trickier to find in small quantities.
Alcohol Stove
Simply put 2 rows of holes around the top of a cleaned out small cat food tin, to make the ‘Super Cat’. Or cut open the bottom, make a inch or so wide hole in the bottom, and some holes around the top to make a chimney/side burner stove. Can use a hole punch (right side image example), or one of those punches you hammer into things (middle), or a knife to make the holes.
Burns hot, blooms (heats up ready to cook) fast, slightly dangerous, can’t be easily extinguished, great fun