Elfing Mission Complete

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Today I am quite tired after having worked a double shift yesterday.  Darn flu, it's getting the staff too, not just the patient's that we serve, so I agreed to stay and help out in the Emergency for the evening shift.  Looooooooong day and then I was back to work this morning for my regular day shift.  

This is the final of the wallets that I made for my son's friends for Christmas:

These were such fun to make, and as far as I know they were appreciated by the boys!

Now off to get ready for bed as I am tired, maybe a little knitting before I fall asleep......

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Elfing Around...

Good Evening Internet Friends.

I showed you all earlier some of the the little wallets that I made for my son's friends for Christmas.  This evening I will share another one of these as a couple of these wallets were not handed out on the final day of school before vacation.  They were handed out today so now I can blog about them:

A turtle wallet with a $5 Tim Horton's card!

Hope this one is appreciated at well.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Elfing Again....

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Yesterday evening I managed to get another of the billfold wallets done.

This one is for "C":

Again, there is a Tim Horton's gift card inside!

Each of these are made using 5" fabric squares for both the inside and outside.  The wrist strap is 4.75" wide and 10" long (the width of the fabric is 4x the opening of the ring at the end.

Hope he likes it....

Kathy

Elfing....

That is what I have decided to call what I have been up of late.

Earlier this year I made a little billfold/wallet thing for my ten year old son to carry around important things in a ten year old boys world; library card, loose change, rocks.....  Apparently several of his classmates decided that these wallet/billfolds were "Top Drawer".

For Christmas gifts this year I am making four of these little wallets:

This first one is for "R".  Inside is a five dollar gift card for Tim Horton's because of course I cannot give away a money holder/device without something in it!  ☺

Hope he likes it....

Kathy

Child's Billfold; Summer Vacation Day 22!

My son is reaching the age where he wants to have some independence with his spending money, however, he is SUPER disorganized.  Really not sure where that comes from.  Yesterday morning I gave him money to purchase popcorn while at summer camp and watched him toss it into his backpack that is filled with everything (one sandal, half a pencil, a crust from a sandwich, an old comic, a spilled box of gum, crayon remnants, assorted sticks, stones, and some sticky goo).  I decided that I would sew him a little zippered pocket in which to keep his library card, gift cards, and extra change.  He thought that was a good idea.

A quick search on the internet gave me a bzillion ways to make one of these, but all seemed super complicated, so I cut 2, 5" pieces of the main fabric (put interfacing on these) and 2, 5" lining pieces and sewed it together with a zippered opening:

It was not until I had sewed it all together and opened it with ease that I realized something was different.  I had opened this packet with the utmost of ease. Since when does that happen?  Then I realized I had sewn the zipper in for a left handed person!!! ☺  Oh well, my son is like me, confused as to which hand to use, so it does not seem to bother him, and in fact he was thrilled with what was made for him!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy