I figured I'd do this right; hand-sewn, all the trimmings (since buying one is Soooooooo expensive!) It'll also be lighter, and suitable for summer.

So we went to the fabric store and I found a bolt of black stewart PV (65% poly) that I think should do nicely. It was on sale for $5 per yard, and we bought the whole bolt. It came to 5yards, and 28 in.

At home, I layed out the pleats. It'll be knife pleated to the sett with 4.5in deep pleats (two setts per pleat, since the sett on the fabric is small). Since it's such a small sett, I'll do 4 pleats per sett, and about 15-20 total since I'm too thin for any more than that.

Here's before pics:
The length, after tearing:

(That's obviously not the whole length )
the sett (about 4.5 in. per sett.)


I'll keep updated. Maybe a possible "X-Tank" or something?