Going Where The Sun Shines Brightly

Winter has definitely arrived in Perth, it's rainy, wet and (to us little sunshine lovers) cold. With many people starting to hibernate into their black and grey uniforms of winter, Veeni has already escaped to the sunny sites of Bali and LD is now packing her bags for an English summer. With travel being on the recent agenda, we got to making some itinerary wallets.

Using the hand painted and printed fabrics of the previous week, LD decided to cut up the pieces and collage them onto a base piece of pre-cut fabric. The dimensions of our base piece was based on it being a little larger than a business size envelope; you need enough room to fit a folded A4 piece of paper, a passport, tickets and any other bits and pieces you intend on taking with you.

LD hadn't used a sewing machine since she was 15, so Veeni provided a few pointers and LD was off.

Once the pieces were stitched onto the base piece, we then stitched it to another piece of fabric, this time leaving one side unsewn so as to creat a pocket. By creating a pocket we were able to insert pieces of card so as to give our wallet some strength and keep its shape. It was then folded into position, ironed and stitched together.

Having already completed the sewing side of it earlier, Veeni continued to hand stencil onto her wallets and finish them off with buttons.

Here is what LDs wallet looks like. Considering LD hadn't sewn for years, Veeni's tips were definitely useful and we were pretty happy with the end result.

For easy access we decided to finish this one off with velcro and, as you can see, it fits everything perfectly!