I had a few hours spare on the weekend so I managed to make a start to my tent
A couple of small changes in regards to dual entry and the floor. I decided to utilise the second vestibule by making the floor and inner run out into that shape. This will better serve me as a solo tent and gives a lot of extra internal room. But it does make the entry on one side only.
I started out by using string to imitate the basic shape and make sure I fit. I do. So then I drew up some working plans and made sure all the dimensions were correct. To double check everything I cut out some paper templates to scale and built the tent and its inner and bathtub floor out of paper first.
Everything appeared to fit and work well so I proceeded to cut everything out and started with the bathtub floor.
I added timeout points in the corners of the floor in preparation to clip it to the outer
I cut out and sewed the inner walls and mesh together but came to a stop before I could sew it to the floor because I didn't stick to the cut out plans and when I went to cut out the roof I fell short by around 30mm of material
I also added a small zipper to the wider side of the inner so I can adjust my hiking pole from the inside if I need to.
So given that I came to halt on the inner I cut out all the material for the outer and this included the cat curves for the corners. I only cut shallow cat curves at this stage and Ill see how they go.
I sewed it all together (only single single seemed at this stage) and tried my best to pitch it inside using the family to hold out the tie outs points. It wasn't an ideal test but I felt confident that the cat curves were close and it should pitch reasonably tight. Because I only single seemed the corners I can deepen the cat curve later if need be.
I proceeded to sew in corner reinforcements, put the tie points on, installed the zipper and put a basic single line hem around the bottom edge.
I was then able to take it outside and put it up properly. Well not properly because I couldn't pull it too tight given the single seem on the corners and I couldn't get the poles to sit in the top corners properly but it was put up well enough to tell me that yes I will deepen the cat curves just a little more, but it appears as though its going to pitch really nice once it is finished properly.
I pushed the tightness boundaries here and its going to work well.
So now I have to put some corner reinforcements into the top corners for the poles and make a grommet or pouch to hold them in the correct position. Ill flat fell all the seems, put the inner together and put all the final touches to it such as clips for the inner to clip to the outer, a little bit of velcro to hold the door open etc
Oh and the whole tent including all the inner, floor, outer, guy lines etc still weighs well under 600g