This cold spell has allowed me to concentrate on moving the awning forward.
The material is 1600mm wide and I cut it 3000mm long. I had intended to sew together 2 panels to make it about 3 meters square but trying to machine down the middle of such a large area on the dining room table with a domestic sewing machine proved too much of a challenge. I will settle for 2 panels held together with ball ended bungee straps. This will mean I need grommets, or eyelets, down both joining edges. I have still to get a consistent grommet fitted in my test pieces without it looking like Marty Feldman or splitting one of the brass rings. I am convinced the cheap punch and die are not fit for purpose so I have ordered a different cheap punch and die of a different design along with a bucket load of the two-piece rings to hopefully get it right.
I hemmed the awning on 3 sides leaving the loose end until I decide on just guys ropes or ropes and a terminal rail in a pocket. The awning rail insert, a Keder rail?, was fixed on securely, I hope.
Not the neatest but hopfully adequate.
I have had the thought that the single sheets, should they not be needed as an awning, might make a nice windbreak so a pocket might be good to use to put the poles in? I will see when I get there.
To fix the awning to the camper I have 8mm aluminium awning rail. It only comes in 1-meter lengths so three were fixed to the left side. I had to refer back to the cad design to know where the spars were for fixing. I could only get 2 screws in each rail and those tended to be all up one end. They will end up being the belt and braces as I think I will glue the rails on with Sikaflex 512 when I am sure they are in the required position.
With the camper being a little less than 3 meters away from the fence I was able to judge the overall effect by putting the sheets in position and clamping them to the fence.
When my new grommets and setting tools arrive I will need to check hole centers for the bungee ball length availability, although most stretch twice their original length so I should have a little leeway. I did wonder whether a 140mm overlap would give me a watertight seam and if I will need a cover strip for the join.
Again, trial and error to find out.
I intend to put a section of awning rail over the back door but a relatively sharp-cornered door slitting a baggy awning is a distinct possibility.
With the warmer weather looking to return I could be back on cutting and fitting angle. I have already put angle on the insides of the rear doors only to find that they now bind on closing. More remeadial work
that entails moving all the door frame back into the camper about 4mm.