Bill's "Mummy Case."
[Illustration: Fig. 200. Bottom Piece of Sleeping Bag.]
[Illustration: Fig. 201. Top Piece of Sleeping Bag.]
[Illustration: Fig. 202. Headboards.]
Our second sleeping bag was Bill's own design, and was, in many respects,
an improvement on the first, though it looked ridiculously like an
Egyptian mummy case. The inner bags were just like those of the first
sleeping bag, but as there was no more rubber sheeting in town we had to
make the outer bag of enameled cloth, such as is used for carriage
curtains. Out of this cloth Bill cut a piece of the shape shown in Fig.
200 to serve as bottom, sides and ends of the sleeping bag. The bag was
sewed wrong side out; that is, the piece was laid with enameled side up,
and then the corners were sewed together after painting the scams with
white lead. Then a top piece was cut out, of the size indicated in Fig.
201. The edges were hemmed over a piece of rope, which thus formed a
corded edge. Now, with the enameled side of the cover piece turned inward,
its edges were sewed to the edges of the first piece. The bag was now
turned inside out, so that the enameled surface lay on the outside and the
seams turned inward. The corded edge on the cover piece lapped over the
sides, forming a watershed.
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