Size

[Richardlss]

This last Bag I sewed was too dang small!! its smaller than a golfball, too small to even really kick, has too much bounce and just plain sucks... I used .55" pents and .70" hex's short side 25%... Thinking of trying .70" pents this time, the hex's seem fine but the pents are too little. What do you guys use to get softball size? I sew not too shallow and not too deep, and a good amount of gather... the last pent size I used was .82 and it came out bigger than a golfball

[mc]

for golfball size (I assume that's what you mean, as opposed to softball sized) I use .8 hexes (33% short side), .6 pents, 1.5mm bite (distance of stitch from edge of panel), and almost-full gather (meaning the panel is almost completely scrunched together).

[Wasabi]

.7 pent
.75 hex, 23% short

Who even calculates the amount of bite from their edge? I don't even know. wth.

Medium gather.

[mc]

what, you think I got out a micrometer and measured? 1.5 is my best estimate.

[will_T]

i prefer 1.325 mm bite depth

[Richardlss]

HAHA softball size! Didnt see that mistake. But yea Golfball size...
When i used the .8 pent they looked HUGE compared to the hex's, right now I've got .65 pent .70 hex...

I'll see how they come out, hopefully it isnt too small

[akalazou]

.7 pent
.8 hex and i started at 30% but i changed it without the template tool, so i might be at 20 - 25 % now

so , mostly the same as Waylon, pen cap gather

[Richardlss]

pencap gather? I used the bottom of my fine point sharpie which is probably same size as pencap... i dont think i'd use that on my next bag though, maybe a AA battery or similar size, to keep the pents alittle bigger, and the bag a tad looser... Hopefully I get it right this time, as it sucks changing templates all the time!

[Wasabi]

The more you gather, the smaller your panels will become.

Golfball size used to be the norm, but don't kick yourself for making a bag larger than golfball size. If you can delay and set it, then it's fine.