Wallet For My Daughter

I made my daughter a new wallet to match the bag I made her last year.

I used a brown fabric that I hand dyed for the outside. (*Blogger somehow squashed this photo because it doesn't look so squashed on the photo I took, but only when I added it to my blog. Weird!)

The batik fabric with the palm trees is the fabric that matches the exterior of her bag. I couldn't use it for the exterior of the wallet or the tress would be upside down when the flap was folded over. 

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Fabric Wallet

My daughter needed a wallet and I told her I could make her one. In fact since I just made her the small Savannah Bag, I said I would make the wallet using the same fabrics I used for making her bag. I ended up using a hand dyed brown fabric as the exterior, since I thought it would work the best. I didn't want to use the batik print with the palm trees for the exterior of the wallet because it was a directional print and the the trees would be upside down on the flap as it closed. So I decided to use the palm tree print on the inside of the wallet. I will make another wallet with some changes, as I perfect this design a bit.

I appliqued a paisley on the flap and hand embroidered it too. My daughter loves paisley and so do I. The purple is a velveteen fabric and the olive green fabric was a fabric that had some machine embroidery on it already and it is some kind of shiny polyester fabric.

4 credit card pockets and the last one in the back is for cash (folded cash).

I wanted to add a coin pocket under the Velcro, but it got too thick to fold properly..

My daughter likes smaller wallets like this size and I do too.  Neither of us haul around a checkbook, so we don't need those larger wallets that hold a checkbook. The bigger the wallet, the bigger your bag has to be too, right?

I put the coin pocket on the back of the wallet instead of inside the wallet because it worked better here.

I never see those linty pieces when I take the photos. How come they show up later? Lol.  Oh well my daughter has this  wallet now, so I won't be doing any photo re-shoots.

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Selvage Wallet

I made this wallet using selvages. I designed the wallet in my head and sort of designed as I sewed, ripping out a couple of times as I made mistakes. I like how it turned out. This is the second thing I made using selvages too.

Credit card pockets.

Zippered coin pocket.

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