Recycled Dolce & Gabbana

(From top to bottom: flat view, pouch inside out, a peek inside)

This is a pouch I've made out of spare leather and fabric I had at home. M had purchased a new wallet in NY which didn't have a slot for cards. There was talk of buying a plastic sleeve for her cards but that won't do! Hence this pouch as a thank you for staying with her. I know you are thinking 'how can that fit in her wallet?', well it's a very different wallet! If not, could be used separately.

The leather is from J's cut off Dolce & Gabbana leather pants and the fabric inside is from some bags I had made some years ago (I love this fabric!).

Naively, I didn't realise I couldn't hand sew the leather even though it is thin and buttery soft. So I had a tailor put together the main seams for me (I wasn't willing to buy leather machine needles) but I didn't expect the side seams inside to be exposed. There was a miscommunication and it's because I insisted on using the thick cotton as lining instead of ugly polyester lining.

So to improve the side seams I handstitched some red bias binding I happened to have and am happier with the result. The side seams seem to help divide the cards - one side for credit cards and one side for membership cards. I wasn't sure I wanted to part with it, my first leather creation - recylced D&G too! Alas, it was made for M and that's whom it should belong to.