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Quick, Easy, and Inexpensive Gifts to Make for all Occasions

Credit, Store, and Business Card Wallet Craft

These card holders are quick and easy to make, inexpensive, and can be designed with a personal touch for everyone you know.

What you will need: Fabric, felt squares, buttons, decorative items, Velcro, sewing machine, and matching thread.

There are several different ways to make these adorable wallets depending on the material you use. The stiff felt wallets are the easiest and quickest because there is very little sewing. The material wallets take a little longer and require a little more sewing, but there you have a much wider selection of designs to pick from.

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Card Holders Made from Material that Frays

How to make:

1. Print out the patterns (Pattern 1 and Pattern 2) and cut them out.

2. Pin the patterns to your fabric and cut them out. Cut two of the Wallet Cover Pattern. Cut the slits where indicated on the pattern. Note the x and y marks on the pieces from the pattern.

3. Place the two cover pieces together, right-sides together and pin the top part. The side without the letters x and y.

4. Sew around the top part from slit to slit. Trim the corner, and then turn the piece right side out. Poke the corners out and iron them flat.

5. Fold the two pocket pieces in half (right side of the material facing out) and top stitch 1/2' from the fold line on each piece.

6. Place the two folded pocket pieces on top the cover piece with the smaller pocket on the bottom. The x's and y's should all be on top of each other. The top of the larger pocket piece (the folded side) should match up with slits cut on the cover piece. Pin the pieces together and then stitch the pockets to the cover piece. Turn the pockets inside out so that both pockets are on the same side.

7. Stitch all the way around the wallet close to the edge.

8. Glue on buttons, Rickrack, ribbon, etc. to decorate the wallet.

9. Cut small pieces of Velcro and glue them to the wallet to keep it closed.

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Felt Square Wallets - Soft felt

You can make two of these wallets one 50 cent square of felt.

How to make:

1. To make the main part of the wallet cut a piece of felt 8.5" x 4 1/4" or use the pattern. Fold down the top and bottom of the piece, the 4 1/4" length, one-half inch and top stitch the folded material. Trim the folded part close to the seam

2. Measure two inches from the bottom folded edge and draw a line across the width of the material. This is where you will line up the bottom of the inside pocket.

3. To make the inside pocket cut another piece of felt 4 1/4" by 3" or use the pattern. Fold the top edge down 1/2" and top stitch it down. Trim the folded part close to the seam.

4. Place the inside pocket on the main piece so that the folded edge is facing the inside of the main piece. You should see the folded down edge on the main piece and not the folded down edge on the inside pocket piece. Line up the bottom of the inside pocket piece with the line you drew two inches from the bottom of the main piece.

5. Sew the inside pocket piece to the main piece 1/2" from the bottom of the inside piece.

6. Fold up the bottom of the main piece at the two inch line so that it covers all but 1/2" of the inside pocket. Pin the folded bottom to the inside pocket and stitch all the way around the outside of the wallet as close to the edge as possible.

7. To finish sew on or glue on buttons and decorative items.

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Felt Square Wallets - Made from Stiffened Felt Squares or Fabric that Doesn't Fray Such as Vinyl or Leather.

These wallets are made basically the same as the soft felt wallets above except that you do not have to turn down the edges because the felt is much sturdier.

How to make:

1. To make the main part of the wallet cut a piece of felt 7.5" x 4 1/4" or use the pattern.

2. Measure two inches from the bottom edge and draw a line across the width of the material. This is where you will line up the bottom of the inside pocket.

3. To make the inside pocket cut another piece of felt 4 1/4" by 2.5".

4. Place the inside pocket on the main piece so that lining up the bottom of the inside pocket piece with the line you drew two inches from the bottom of the main piece.

5. Sew the inside pocket piece to the main piece 1/2" from the bottom of the inside piece.

6. Fold up the bottom of the main piece at the two inch line so that it covers all but 1/2" of the inside pocket. Pin the folded bottom to the inside pocket and stitch all the way around the outside of the wallet as close to the edge as possible.

7. To finish sew on or glue on buttons and decorative items.

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