Monday, May 12, 2014

Debbie Shore has a cute tutorial, well, MANY cute tutorials, on YouTube. Recently, she posted one one how to make a wallet that has spaces for credit cards, a zippered compartment, and a place for 'whatever'.  I've been busy making two of them, but I tweeked the pattern, making the purse smaller and adding 2 sections for credit cards, deleting the space for 'whatever'. It should have been a quick and easy projrct, but for the past 2 weeks Fibromyalgia has been devouring me, so there has not been much energy for doing anything. I am almost done, all that is left is attaching the bias binding, which she also has video on how to make your own. Instead of making individual binding strips and sewing each piece, I searched for instructions on making continuous bias making, and found some good videos on the subject. It makes the project go a bit faster and gave me a good feeling of accomplishment.
So, here are pictures of them


Oops , this picture came out a bit slanted.
You get the picture.

I will post pictures of the finished products. If anyone is interest in purchasing a wallet, I can make them in different colors, but with fabric from my stash. The 'wallet' measures 8 1/2 inches wide, and approx. 5 inches when closed, a bit larger than a standard wallet. I can make them smaller, if you like.