Materials:
- 1 3/4 - 2 yards of 60" wide fabric -- a fabric with some stretch works best. This is enough fabric for two hammocks.
- Thread to match
Drapery or craft cord- 3 sturdy cup hooks (you may also need wall anchors)
- Open the fabric to a single thickness.
- Fold the fabric cut edge to meet the selvedge, creating a triangle.
- Trim away the excess fabric.
- Cut the fold of the triangle edge (this will be a bias edge).
- Cut off of each corner so there is 2" across the corner.
- Turn under each corner 1/4", turn under another 1/4" to enclose the raw edge.
- Press and stitch the corners in place.
- Repeat for all three corners.
- Turn under and press 1/2" on each side.
- Turn under another 1/2" to enclose the raw edges.
- Press.
- Insert the drapery or craft cord in the fold, leaving a few inches out at the corner.
- Stitch the inside folded edge on each side (keeping the cording away from the stitching) stopping and leaving a 2 inches loop of cord at each corner.
- When all the sides are sewn, knot the ends of the cord.
- Knot again.
- Trim excess cord.
- Work the knot into the side seam by pulling from another corner.
- Evenly distribute the cord to have an even amount of cord at each corner.
- Knot the cord just past the ends of the fabric
- Stitch through the fabric at the corners, sewing over the corner to lock it into place.
- Place one hook at the corner of the wall and a hook out from the corner, the length of the sides of the hammock.
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