Best Of Diys | Leather Passport

Continuing amongst our summertime serial of Best of DIYs nosotros convey you lot this pretty fab projection past times Alicia Jepsen of Jepsen LeatherGoods. Back inwards 2011 Alicia shared how to brand this leather passport holder amongst us, as well as we're happy to dig it out of the archives - perfect for a summertime DIY nosotros think! Check it out below!

How to Make Your Own Leather Passport Holder
past times Jepsen LeatherGoods

What You Need:

* passport holder blueprint (pdf available online)
* 3/4 oz. vegetable tanned leather (one foursquare foot)
* waxed linen thread ( 110” total)
* scratch awl
* stitching awl
* utility knife
* cutting mat
* ruler
* wool dauber
* leather conditioner
* 2 arts and crafts needles ( 2 3/8” long)
* soft cloth

*Many of these items are available from Springfield Leather Company (www.springfieldleather.com).

Time: 2 hours

1. Print as well as cutting out pattern. Make certain to impress the pdf inwards actual size. Uncheck the auto scale box inwards your impress window. The large blueprint slice (shown inwards Step 2) should stair out 8” past times five 1/2”. The smaller blueprint pieces for the pockets should stair out 2 7/8” past times five 1/2” as well as 3 ¼” past times five 1/2” respectively.

2. Lay blueprint on leather as well as describe amongst a scratch awl. Poke holes through blueprint to grade stitch placement.

3. Use utility knife (and ruler if necessary) to cutting out the blueprint you lot select traced on the leather.

4. Punch holes amongst the stitching awl. Helpful hint: Laying the leather on an onetime outcry upward mass allows you lot to pierce a deeper hole into the leather, resulting inwards easier stitching.

5. Apply the leather conditioner amongst a wool dauber.

6. Wipe excess away amongst a soft cloth. Use the fabric to rub the edges of the leather. This volition utilisation a nice, smoothen edge.

7. Cut iii lengths of waxed linen thread. You volition withdraw ii 45” pieces (for the pockets on each side) as well as i 20” slice (for the credit bill of fare divider).

8. The virtually mutual agency to run upward leather is saddle stitching. Watch a curt video tutorial here. To utilisation this, thread a needle on both cease of a 45” slice of thread. Line upward the large leather slice amongst i of the bag pieces as well as insert a needle iii holes from the cease of employment of pre-punch holes. Pull the thread through the hole hence you lot select equal lengths of thread on each side.

9. Insert needle inwards the adjacent hole (closest to the cease of the employment of holes) as well as push clit through hole.

10. Flip leather over as well as insert other needle into the same hole as well as push clit through hole.

11. You should select equal lengths of thread on either side of the leather. Pull each strand tight to laid stitch.

12. Continue i to a greater extent than stitch to the end. Then backstitch over the ii holes you lot select already stitched as well as popular off on the residuum of the agency to a greater extent than or less the pocket. Note: The role of the ii backstitches is to strengthen the ends.

13. When you lot gain the end, backstitch ii stitches (like you lot did at the beginning) as well as cutting the threads. There is no withdraw to necktie a knot, every bit the backstitching volition secure the thread as well as preclude unraveling.