Wednesday, January 28, 2009

bunny wallet

Okay, I'm pretty sure I have the Zakka Sewing book out of my system - at least for a little while.

I need a bunny wallet about as much as I need a bunny pencil pouch, but here it is anyway. That paw over her mouth cracks me up. I just realized that I don't have a picture of the face without the paw on it. There's a 1/2" snap for a nose and embroidered mouth underneath. To make things move along quickly, I used a stitch on my machine that goes over each spot 3 times to machine embroider the lines on the face. The eyes are doll clothes buttons.


The book calls for one pocket for paper money and one for credit cards. I added a second credit card pocket to hold various insurance cards, loyalty cards, etc. You can see by the extra cards in the money pocket that I could have used even more.



Twill tape was used for the coin pocket tab instead of fabric.



It's been fun to use this week, but I'll probably empty it in a few days and save it for more springlike weather.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love these projects. I see bday gifts for the girls friends.

Carol

One Reader said...

So cute and such a great way to use smaller pieces of fabric!

Rebekah said...

you are killing me with all of this cute zakka...you're a walking ad for the book! This rabbit wallet is so cute, especially the hand over the mouth :)

even-star said...

your blog was on craft gossip. so many great projects! Thanks for sharing.

abcgirl said...

This was my very favorite project from the Zakka book and I need a new card wallet (you know, the separate wallet where you keep club membership cards and frequent buyer punch cards and other lesser-used cards?). Is it very bulky? Nice job! I like the twill tape substitute....

abcgirl said...

This was my very favorite project from the Zakka book and I need a new card wallet (you know, the separate wallet where you keep club membership cards and frequent buyer punch cards and other lesser-used cards?). Is it very bulky? Nice job! I like the twill tape substitute....

Wendy said...

abcgirl - It's not bulky, but I've found that any cards I keep in the bill portion of the wallet fall out very easily when it's opened. It would be a great card keeper if you just sewed that middle seam all the way through the inner layers. I'd change one more thing though and make the width(or would it be length) of those pockets shorter so the cards are propped up closer to the openings. Does that make any sense? Essentially, I wouldn't have all the bottom seams of those pockets together in the lower edge seam of the wallet. Once they're all sewn on that inner piece of the wallet, you can run the middle seam through the whole bunch of them at once.

even-star - I need to go find out about craft gossip - thanks!

abcgirl said...

yep, that makes sense. Good tips, thanks!