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Step 2: Getting the feel for your jacket, and determining the netting placement
For those of you that didn’t read any of the other stuff I said about choosing BDU’s that are larger than what you wear, go and read that now. After you have read all of that and have your BDU’s, the first thing you want to do is put your BDU jacket on. Make sure it is comfortable and roomy, and that when you rise your arms in the air, the jacket doesn’t come down to your elbow or something. You want it to be so that the cuffs of the sleeve are still touching you’re a little bit above your wrist. If you are making the suit with the netting all around the front part of the suit, you may skip this part if you wish. Lye on the ground with the jacket on you elbows and knees. Mark or note where the imaginary line on the jacket arm is before the fabric is touching the ground (on the inside of both of your arms), and where the reinforcing canvas should be placed. You don’t want the knots of the netting to be sewn into any place below the imaginary line that you just marked, or where you are going to be putting your canvas. Now take off the jacket and lay it out on an open space and flatten it out (You actualy may find it easier to skip to attaching the canvas to the elbows now before applying the netting. Remember, the place where the canvas reinforcments may not be where the extra fabric is on the actual jacket depending on how you crawl).
After that, stretch the netting out over the
jacket and pin it down. Make sure that it is even and not too overstretched.
Also, make a visual inspection to see if there are any breaks in the netting.
If there are, just try to arrange it that that is the part were you will
cut it off at or put a piece of tape on it to remind you of it later. Important!
All
of these pictures give a rough outline of what the netting should look
like on the BDU's! Do NOT try to make everything look
exactly
like them! Depending on the type of netting you used, and the size of your
BDU's (and since I can only estimate what it will be like when I draw them
by hand) it may be different.
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This is when you have to decide weather you want the netting on the
front off the suit or not. If you do, go to the second part of the next step skip this next
part if you wish. If not, keep reading.
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