I needed a card holder

[Beehive]

This came straight out my head. I used 4-5oz Horween caviler in plum(buckleguy). Veg tanned 3-4oz dyed chocolate(Fiebing pro dye) with a huge .08mm yellow thread(Ritza). Angelus brown edge paint. I used one of those fancy open eye snaps in 12mm(buckleguy). Half the time it's ugly, the other half it's in your pocket. But it's mine. Probably my last, 'wallet' of my lifetime.  

 

 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Beehive

[DieselTech]

Nice work. Love the color combo too. Really like the looks of the plum horween. 

[Beehive]

It's crazy nice leather. Hand stitching it takes practice. If you go from stitching nothing but stiff veg tanned to semi soft chrome. It's an adventure. Putting the two together adds to it.

Let me take a picture of the inside. The color isn't that struck through.

[Beehive]

Pretty color on the back. I counter sunk the back of the snap in the chome. Only the veg tanned is holding the snap. It lays flat. Today was it's first day being in a pocket. I can barely feel it's there.

 

(3.38mm stitch spacing. Any wider stitch looking loop was done with a 3.85mm French iron to make things match up with the corners.)

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Beehive

[BlackDragon]

Very nice, love the color!

[Beehive]

5 minutes ago, BlackDragon said:

Very nice, love the color!

 

Thank You. I usually hate everything I make. Don't see it for myself. I guess. 

 

It needs .06mm thread. And if it went traditional steam. Cigar colored. I held blue, green, and red up to the plum. I ran practice stitches using red and white. 

If I did it again, Green in .060mm. 

 

For which is going to never happen. Because me and this card holder have made friends. This is an item that's going to be a daily occurrence in my life. This is what that's going to be in my pocket. 

 

I bought a panel of the brown Horween cavalier. The full 26". I'm gonna cover a 7x10 inch journal. Do it up proper.