first wallet

both of my younger brothers are really into videogames so wanted to give them something for Christmas with that on mind. at the tandy store that I usually go to, they keep the wallet liners close to the registers, one day I saw them while paying I thought they would make for a nice gift.

in my head it was going to be a pretty simple project. cut a rectangle of leather, carve it, glue it and stitch it. it was quite so simple. I made the mistake of blindly trusting the cutting pattern they provide with the liner an lo and behold, it was a fraction of an inch too big, which I didn't realize until I had already glued it together. when stitching, the thread ended up way too close to the edges of the liner and chewed them up. at this point I wasn't aware that rubber cement and contact cement were two different things and it turns out that rubber cement was no the best thing to use to bond the two pieces together. it started delaminating at some spots.

the only thing I was proud of was the use of fewer resist coats before antiquing. it gave a nice, warm yellow/orangy tone; appropriate since this happens to be a fire type pokemon.