Passport Wallet

Passport Credit Card Wallet

This folding wallet will hold loads of stu, such as your passport, currency, lots of plasc, plasc, coupons, airline ckets ckets and luggage stubs. With the magnec closure, all items stay secure.

Supplies:

1/4 yd of fabric for outside (or 2 fat quarters) 2 fat quarter for pockets and lining (or 1/4yard) Bang 18” x 8” Magnec purse snap Meler Web Bond Temporary Adhesive Meler Silk-Finish Mul 100% Coon Art. 1075 (Color 9824 was used for this) Plasc Ruler Rotary Cuer Fabric Marker

Cut 2 pieces of the outside fabric and a piece of bang 18” x 8” with ruler and rotary cuer. cuer. Spray wrong side of both pieces of fabric with Meler Web Bond. (Fig. 1) Place 1 piece of fabric down on table with adhesive adhesive side up. Place bang on top top of fabric (Fig. 2) 2) and then the other other piece of fabric (glue side down) on the bang. (Fig. 3) You now have have made a quilt sandwich.

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Using a ruler that will show you a 45° 45° angle. (Fig. 4) Mark a line to give you you a starng starng point for for your quilng. quilng. (Fig. 5)

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Wind the bobbin with Meler variegated thread thread and thread your machine with matching thread. Begin sewing on the drawn line. (Fig. 6) When the rst line is nished, use your presser foot as a guide and sew next to the line you just sewed. sewed. Connue unl all the fabric has been quilted. quilted. (Fig. 7) 7) When nished, draw another line the opposite direcon and begin quilng the other way. way. (Fig. 8) (Hint: It is a good idea idea to trim all the threads as you you go as this can be a bit overwhelming at the end of sewing if you don’t.) (Fig. 9) Fig. 6

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To nish the ends, cut a 2” strip by 8 1/2”. 1/2”. Fold the strip in half length-wise and press. (Fig. 10) Fig. 11

Unfold and press one long end of raw edge to the center fold. (Fig. 11) Fig. 12

Press the opposite side side to the center center fold. Fold on the center again and press one more more me. (Fig. 12)

Using Meler Web Bond Temporary Adhesive Spray, spray the inside of the folded binding. This will make it a cinch to hold in place while you are sewing. (Fig. 13 & 14) Fig. 13

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Lay the short end of the quilted piece onto half of the binding. (Fig. 15) Because of the Web Bond spray sp ray adhesive it will stay put but is moveable if you need to. Then fold fold the other other half of the binding onto the front side. (Fig. 16) Zig Zag stch in place. (Fig. 17)

Using the lining linin g fabric, cut 1 piece 8” x 16”. 16”. (Fig. 18) Fold right sides together longwise and sew raw raw edges using 1/2 seam allowance. allowance. (Fig. 19) You now have a tube. Turn right right side out and press. (Fig. 20) Fold lengthwise to nd the center center and cut into 2 pieces. pieces. (One pocket pocket for for each side). Lay aside. aside. Fig. 18

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Cut a piece of lining fabric 17.5” x 10.5”. 10.5”. On the narrow side, fold and press under 1/4 inch, fold another 1/4 inch and and press. press. (Fig. 21) 21) Sew this hem to nish the top top of the pocket. pocket. Place the fabric right side up on the table with the hem on your right. Mark a fold fold line on the edge of the fabric from le to right, mark at 3”, then 2.5”, 2.5”, then 3.5”, 3.5”, then 2.5” then 3.5”. 3.5”. (Fig.

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22) Working from the right side of the fabric fabric fold on the the marked marked lines and press. (Fig. 23)

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Top stch the folded folded edge with a 1/4 inch seam. (Fig. 24) Stch all the fold lines at the top of the pocket. pocket. Stching the boom fold lines is unnecessary. Measure and mark a stch line down the middle of the pocket. Then mark another stching line 2 1/2 inches from the center on both sides. (Fig. 25)

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Stch through all thickness on the line on either side of the middle. It is easier if you stch stch from boom to top. Do not stch the middle yet.

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Let’s put this thing together. together. Mark the center of the quilted piece. Match the pocket center to the quilted piece center with the raw edge of the pockets along one raw edge of the the quilted piece. piece. Place the pockets you made earlier with the folded edge next to the binding. The seamed edge of the small pockets should cover the large pocket by a quarter inch or so. Pin all pieces pieces in place place (Fig. 27) 27)

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Through all thicknesses, from edge to edge, sew all Fig. 28

the way down down the center line. Then edge stch stch the currency pockets pockets down through through all thicknesses. thicknesses. See arrows on Fig. 28. Keeping the inside pocket ap folded out of the

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way, follow manufacturer’s direcons in placing the magnec snap in the center near the edge of the rst fold. The back part of the snap will not show because it will be inside the currency Fig. 30

pocket. (Fig. 29) Fig. 31

Fold on the center stching stching line and the pocket pocket stching stching lines and press. press. (Fig. 30) Trim any any excess excess fabric and threads threads even even with the quilted piece. (Fig. 31) Pin inside pockets in place or sew them down on the very edge so they will stay when applying the binding.

To nish the binding, cut 2 pieces of 2” wide binding 19” long. We will make make the binding exactly as we did on Page 3 (Fig. 10 -12), with one excepon. excepon. We will need to nish the ends. You may just turn the end down 1/4 inch for for a hem (Fig. 32) and spray with Meler Web Web Bond and aach as we did the other edges. Or if you want the mitered look, follow these instrucons.

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On the end of the binding, fold a 1/4” hem and press. Fold the fabric fabric in half lengthwise lengthwise and press. (Fig. 32)

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Fold down both corners to center to form a 45 degree angle. (Fig. 33 & 34)

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Fold both raw edges of fabric to the center fold Fig. 35

line and and press. (Fig. 35) 35)

Fold and press raw edges to the center on both Fig. 36

sides. (Fig. 36)

Fold binding in half again again and press. press. The end Fig. 37

should look like like the end in Fig. 37. Spray inside of binding with Meler Web Bond and aach as we did earlier. earlier. Use Fig. 15, 16, and 17 for instrucons.

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Zig zag binding in place. (Fig. 38) Stop sewing when you get get to about 4” from from the end. Cut the binding 1/4” 1/4” longer than the wallet. wallet. Follow Fig. 32-37 again again for for nishing this end. Finish by sewing all the way to the end of the wallet.

Now the real fun begins. Fill that wallet full of all your stu and and enjoy. enjoy. Now make another one for a friend.