My first attempt at kite building

by Bruce Edwards
(Fort Worth, TX)

After finding "My Best Kite" web site and reading the monthly updates from Tim for months, my kids gave me a Christmas gift of a kite building book, "Kites For Everyone" by Margaret Greger (not a plug for this book, just a gift.)

After browsing through it for several days, I decided on this snake kite and to keep the kids happy chose it to build as my first. I followed the directions, mostly, wondered if I was ever going to find an end to the sewing.

I used rip stop nylon as the fabric and sewed on and on. When completed, had to wait about 3 days for the wind to return and had a great feeling to watch it just float up into the sky and wiggle around in the gusty winds we have here in Texas.

Keep up the good work with this kite building web site Tim, I believe the Dopero will be my next attempt to paint the sky with color.