Sun 16 Nov 2008
Last weekend I was fed-up with work and needed to do some craft so I made a friend a wallet for her birthday using Sew Christine’s tutorial. I love the fabric I used in this project. When choosing the fabric I took a couple of combinations to R and asked his opinion. At first he was very decided that my safe option (the turtle fabric with the light blue spotty I used in my robot messenger bag) was the best but then he emphatically decided that the riskier option was the only option. i love that the spots go in the other direction inside the purse.

In this project I finally got around to using the Lamifix that I bought at this year’s Festival of Quilts. I thought that if I made the outside of the wallet plastic then the wallet would be more durable. The lamifix was pretty easy to use to get reasonable results although I think I need a little more practice. I’m not sure I’d want to use it on large projects or ones where there is a lot of turning inside out though because once it gets creased you can’t get the lines out.
November 17th, 2008 at 6:43 am
The wallet looks great. I’ve yet to do anything with my Lamifix but I’m thinking that a wallet or small bag would be the best option too.