Long Leather Wallet

The Leatherworker.net group has a challenge going on this year to keep us all motivated and to try new things. The pattern for this month was for a long wallet. (Although I did one before for my DH which is somewhat similar, I made my own pattern for that one based on his old wallet.) This style of wallet is not normally my cup of tea but it gave me a chance to use  one of the designer sheets that I got on sale at Tandy. I modified the pattern to include a flap for security. The goat I used for the interior was a little too soft and squishy. It should have been a firmer temper. It was a pain to sew when it got to the multiple layers of the card pockets. Overall, I think it turned out fairly well. I think if I was doing it again, I would bind the edge of the card pockets where it becomes the bill holder.

Long Wallet

From his years of wearing a suit, my husband prefers the long style of wallet. His is falling apart ( it's only 20 years old lol) so I decided to try and make him a new one. I found this hard to do and there are a lot of things that need improvement. I used goatskin because the leather needed to be thin and flexible. I could have done the card pockets using fabric with a leather strip at the top but I did want to make as much of it as possible with leather. Even with the thin goat, it gets bulky in the card section. This goat was really stretchy so I was unable to skive it down.

There was a discussion on leatherworker.net about the RFID in cards so I lined some of the interior pockets with the aluminum foil tape, covered with a fabric liner. I didn't like the way that it made the leather not as smooth but hopefully it will work. I need to get better at the trimming of the leather after binding, but like all things, it probably comes with practice.