Here’s the tutorial for these wallets!
The tutorial includes two variation of the closure, one with tab and velcro and the other with fabric loop and button.
For the tutorial, I made a pair of wallets from pink Japanese cotton fabrics, one in polkadot and the other one in floral pattern. The beige linings are Indian cotton fabrics. I hope the colours of the fabrics are not too muted in the pictures.
The tutorial can be downloaded here, it’s a 7 pages of PDF file. Please contact me if you have any difficulty downloading it, or if anything is not clear.
I hope you enjoy this tutorial and make your own version. Instead of velcro or fabric loop, you can also use snap-on button, magnetic closure, or plain elastics without the fabric loop.
Disclaimer: You may use the finished products for both personal and commercial use (craft shops or markets only – no mass production). Please do not pass off the pattern and tutorial as your own. Thank you!
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Wallet tutorial (58500)
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Well, after all I made it work. I hadn’t put the zipper in when I previously wrote, but was just fitting it together to figure it out. After putting the zipper in and adjusting the 1.5mm fold to accomodate, it worked out beautifully. Now just have to finish with the binding. Thank you for all your hard work in building the tutorial!
I am in the middle of making your beautiful wallet! but I am stuck. I can’t figure out how to place the (B3)lining which is
9cm into the space for the pocket. It seems too wide as the overlapping piece is only 6.5cm. When I fold it at the 6.5 mark, the lining just doesn’t work. Help!
Senang deh nemu tutorial ini, makasih udah sharing yaaa… Love love love your wallet! ^_^
I made a wallet from your tutorial (with little changes) these week.
If you want, you can have a look there : http://aiguillesduherisson.over-blog.com/article-quand-a-devient-de-l-acharnement-73743790.html
Thank you for sharing!
Katiusca
Hi, I really love ur wallet and the tutorial^^ it is awesome =) Can I know what type of the fabric did you use for this? And will it be too soft since you just use fabric to make it? Thanks.
I use Japanese cotton fabric with fusible interfacing so it is not too soft.
Okay, thanks. Can i know can the iron on batting replace with fusible interfacing?
I’ve never tried it before, but I assume it can be used depending on the thickness of the batting and/or the effect that you’re trying to achieve.
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Hi! First thank you so much! I LOVE the tutorial and the wallets! I did have a quick question…
Do you have any suggestions on how to sew the binding on nice and straight? I seem to be having troubles and I’m not sure what I need to do to make this easier.
Hi Stephanie, I usually sew one side of bias tape first then use fusible tape for the other side and topstitch. Using topstitching foot on the machine can help too. But fusible tape is really helpful! I use it for sewing binding, installing zipper, sewing hem etc. Hope that helps!
Hi, I love your tutorial. How would you add stabilizer to this wallet?
If the fabric is thin, I use fusible interfacing on them.
hi novita,
tqsm for this tutorial, at last i’ve made it. pls take a look here if u’re free -
http://justmeani.blogspot.com/2010/12/1st-wallet.html
~ terima kasih !
Your wallets are super cute. I’m trying to get ideas together for Christmas presents this year.. I love making them so much! And it’s always much more personal to give gifts from the heart that are handmade.. Can’t wait to make a few of these for stocking stuffers. Kudos.
-Molly
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Thank you for the tutorial.
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oh, I’m glad found this tutorial. I was plannin to make a wallet for my sister bec she asked me. And thinking which kind of wallet suits for her. I know now, I’ll use this pattern to make wallet for her. I’ll tell you if I make it
and will post it on my blog.
see ya
hi there, tq so much for your tutorial.i would like to make is as my personal wallet and maybe sell if anyone interested.thank you for sharing this beautiful wallet. i love it so much.thank you so much!
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Thank you for the tutorial! Would it be possible to chane the milimeters into inches for those of us that don’t use mm? I sure would appreciate a translation! Love the pattern though and will try to make one w/o sizes!
Glad that you like it!
Unfortunately I’m only familiar with metric system. I’ve tried making a tutorial with inches but that was just too confusing for me, so I gave up. The best I can do is just suggesting to use online converter to change them. That is the way I usually do when facing pattern/tutorial that use inches. I’m sorry….
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I made this over the weekend and I was very happy with the results. I modified it slightly as I wanted to fit two passports inside and use it as a travel wallet.
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I love the pattern but only 4 pages come up for the pdf download. It seems to be missing most of the instructions. Help!
Hi Alexis!
You have to click the download button at the top of the window –> Download (1.5 mb) to get the whole file that you can print. The 4 pages is just for preview. Hope that helps!
This is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for! Thank you SOOOoooo much!! God Bless You!
P.S. Purple is my favorite color, as well!
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Thank you so much for this tutorial. I made this over the weekend and I was very happy with the results. I modified it slightly as I wanted to fit two passports inside and use it as a travel wallet.
Thank you again! =)
So happy that my tutorial is useful!
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Pretty design and what pretty fabric!
Your tutorial looks great! I think I know what I will be making my stepsister for Christmas
Thank you for the wallet tutorial I can't wait to try it.
Thank you for sharing the tutorial… and happy belated birthday!
I became a fan on face book happy birthday
I became a fan on face book. It was the only way to go, how awesome a site.
That's so pretty! I love the lace detail on the outside!!
I posted a link to your tutorial on Craft Gossip Sewing:
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-pretty-fabric-wallet/2009/11/27/
–Anne
Thank you for the lovely tutorials – I've downloaded both of them, and will give the big one a try first!
Wow, this is such a lovely pattern, I have added it to my to do list on my blog. Thank you for sharing!
Gracias por el tutorial, me ha gustado mucho y lo voy ha hacer.
All of your wallets are great. Thanks for sharing this pattern with us.
Greetings from Spain
I can't wait to make one of these. Thank you so much for posting the tutorial.
Can't wait to make this in red! (Supposed to super-charge the money inflow according to feng-shui! Why not?) And in reference to your last post, you are making the blogosphere a Pretty World, too.
YAY! Thank you SOOO much, this is gorgeous! I'll be linking.
Beatiful!
You're awesome! And the tutorial is great
Thank You <3
what a pretty wallet.. n thanks for sharing
thank you!
love your work!
thank you banget buat tutorial-nya Nov … wajib dicoba nih ….. thank you thank you ….
Awesome! I've been wanting to make one of these for a while.. hehe
I had bookmarked your other wallet tutorial to make the other day and then saw the bigger wallets and thought, hmm I would really like to try and make one of those too but she hasn't done a tutorial for those.
So I tried to make my own version.. didn't get as far as making it so thank goodness you put up your tutorial or I could of wasted alot of time and me getting stressed out when it went wrong! lol.
Thank you! I'm so excited to make this!
Thank you once again