Rainy Day Project!
Oooo first project post!!
It was a very cold, very wet, and very dreary day two weekends ago. So instead of doing chores, because honestly who wants to do that, I decided to finally put together a Tee-Pee tent project for our daughter that I had been slowly cutting out through the week.
The idea for this project was inspired by some friends of ours who have a cute tee-pee tent for their 2 year old son. We were visiting with them one evening and our little lady thought that his tent was so COOL! So of course I immediately started to ponder, "how hard could that be to make?".
Off to Pinterest I went where I found a plethora of DIY instructions for making a tee-pee style tent. I came across an image that just showed simple measurements for the panels for the tee-pee and followed it to: The Reinvented Housewife. Her directions were easy to follow and it took me about 3-4 hours to sew it all together (note: that does not include the time to cut it out, which was probably another 2-3 hours). All in all the project would take about a day of solid work, but when one has a job, a toddler, and various adulting responsibilities it may take a week to get done.
A goal of mine this year is to use up fabric/sewing/craft supplies I have lying around and luckily I just so happened to have some fabrics that happened to coordinate pretty well to make this tee-pee. However I do strongly recommend picking a fabric with a non specific pattern direction that is 60" wide so that the panels can be laid out in the most efficient way. I was not lucky on that front because all my fabrics were 45" wide and the printed fabric had a specific direction so there was a fair amount of fabric waste for me.
The only thing I had to buy for this project was the pvc pipe, little rubber feet (for the pvc), and some spray paint (which I plan to use at a later date to paint said pvc). Unlike the Reinvented House Wife I chose to use pvc pipe because it was cheaper and I couldn't find the firring strips she mentioned and wooden dowel rods are prohibitively expensive ($15 per piece 😲)
I am very pleased with how it turned out, but I am already cooking up ideas on how to keep the feet positioned correctly, since our littler girl likes to go under the sides of the tent instead of through the opening which knocks the pipes out of place. Also I plan to add lighting inside at a later date using some battery operated lights I just so happen to have lying around. See the finished product below!
It was a very cold, very wet, and very dreary day two weekends ago. So instead of doing chores, because honestly who wants to do that, I decided to finally put together a Tee-Pee tent project for our daughter that I had been slowly cutting out through the week.
The idea for this project was inspired by some friends of ours who have a cute tee-pee tent for their 2 year old son. We were visiting with them one evening and our little lady thought that his tent was so COOL! So of course I immediately started to ponder, "how hard could that be to make?".
Off to Pinterest I went where I found a plethora of DIY instructions for making a tee-pee style tent. I came across an image that just showed simple measurements for the panels for the tee-pee and followed it to: The Reinvented Housewife. Her directions were easy to follow and it took me about 3-4 hours to sew it all together (note: that does not include the time to cut it out, which was probably another 2-3 hours). All in all the project would take about a day of solid work, but when one has a job, a toddler, and various adulting responsibilities it may take a week to get done.
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| Image from http://www.thereinventedhousewife.org/diy |
A goal of mine this year is to use up fabric/sewing/craft supplies I have lying around and luckily I just so happened to have some fabrics that happened to coordinate pretty well to make this tee-pee. However I do strongly recommend picking a fabric with a non specific pattern direction that is 60" wide so that the panels can be laid out in the most efficient way. I was not lucky on that front because all my fabrics were 45" wide and the printed fabric had a specific direction so there was a fair amount of fabric waste for me.
The only thing I had to buy for this project was the pvc pipe, little rubber feet (for the pvc), and some spray paint (which I plan to use at a later date to paint said pvc). Unlike the Reinvented House Wife I chose to use pvc pipe because it was cheaper and I couldn't find the firring strips she mentioned and wooden dowel rods are prohibitively expensive ($15 per piece 😲)
I am very pleased with how it turned out, but I am already cooking up ideas on how to keep the feet positioned correctly, since our littler girl likes to go under the sides of the tent instead of through the opening which knocks the pipes out of place. Also I plan to add lighting inside at a later date using some battery operated lights I just so happen to have lying around. See the finished product below!
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