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Burrito Roll

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The last seam in a Parafoil or Flowform or other soft kite with a profile is often called the 'Burrito Roll'. It is because the entire kite is rolled up inside itself, bad side out, so that the final seam can be sewn and the edges of the seam are inside the left-most (starboard) cell. In the picture below, the yellow line is last seam sewn. The first (pink) seam is just above it. The first seam is sewing the outside starboard Rib to the Top Panel. The reason for this is that sewing the top edge of the Ribs involves sewing a curved edge to a straight line. That is hard enough to accomplish without fighting with extra layers or lots of fabric. So, the first seam is top left. It should be mentioned before we go much farther that it makes life much easier if all the parts are labeled. Painters masking tape makes great labels. In the picture below you will notice that the Keel labels are pointed. This is because it is very easy to hem the wrong two edges of the Keel. Almost h
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Ron M

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Some pictures of Ron's new Min-Mocks.
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Sewing a Mini-Mock FLowform

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I tried my hand a making a Mini-Mock Flowform designed by Don Mock. Making one Mini-Mock drove me to try different ways of making one. BASICS: The original Plan is stingy on lengths for the Top Panels. The first Mini-Mock I attempted to make, I used the Plan Dimensions. When sewing the Top Panels to the Ribs, I ran out of Panel before I ran out of Rib. For later attempts, I used 60" fabric and used the width of the fabric (60") for the length of the Top Panels. I use a different Order Of Sewing that Don does. I always start weith the top of the starboard Rib. That way, the last seam, the Burrito Roll seam, is a straight seam, involving only the starboard Keel, starboard Bottom Panel, and the starboard Rib. Another thing that I tried, and liked, that was different, was to use three 21" panels, instead of six 11" panels, for the Top and Bottom. My allowances were 1/2", everywhere, for every thing. Hems, seams, all of it. PARTS IS PARTS: There was once a
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