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HOW TO SEW A TEABAG WALLET - Scrap busting Project to Complete in Under an Hour - Great gift Idea
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Jan 10, 2025
Sew a teabag wallet and never be caught without your favourite tea again. Great for your pocket, purse or bag. These make a superb gift for tea loving friends and they can easily be popped into the post for distant friends. This DIY teabag holder can be made in under an hour and is a great project for beginners and experienced sewists alike. In this video is all the information you need including measurements. But you can scale it up to carry more teabags if you prefer. Let me know in the comments below if you do this and tell everyone the size you made it. Let's learn together! If you are prefer written instructions then take a look at the written tutorial on my blog at https://christines-crafts.com/teabag-wallet-tutorial/ This description includes affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. You will need: Fabric for wallet, strap and pockets. Fat quarters work well. https://amzn.to/2QDelXl Interfacing: https://amzn.to/3tFgzUM Button: https://amzn.to/3v2resK Thread If you enjoy crafting my blog is full of great ideas and tutorials. Plus if you subscribe you gain access to my free resource library, which includes a home crafts e-book, planners and much more, and get to hear about my latest projects first. Take a look at https://christines-crafts.com/ Enjoy sewing your own teabag wallets. Please leave me a 'thumbs up' if you enjoyed this video and subscribe so that you get to see all my videos as they are posted.
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hi in this video i'm going to show you
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how to make a tea bag wallet
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yep super little wallet to carry out
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your tea bags wherever you want to go
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never run short these make a great gift
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idea for someone that loves their tea
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really easy to pop in the post so i'm
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christine of christinescrafts.com and
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this channel is dedicated to crafting
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on a budget so what are you going to
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need to make a tea bag wallet
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well the beauty of this is you only need
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small pieces of fabric it's a great
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scrap busting project
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so from your main fabric cut out two
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pieces that are
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seven inches by five inches so that's
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two pieces of those from your main
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fabric
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also from your main fabric cut out a
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strap piece that is seven
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inches by 1.5 inches
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you're also going to need some pockets
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for the inside which you can do in the
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same material but i'm choosing to use a
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complementary material
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and these should be 7 inches wide by
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four inches deep
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for one of them and seven inches wide
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by three inches deep for the other one
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because you want different
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depths of your pockets
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the other thing you're going to need is
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some interfacing to stiffen your wallet
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i use the iron on kind but your piece
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wants to be seven
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inches by five inches the same as your
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big wallet pieces
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and that's everything you need to cut
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out so the first thing you need to do
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is to get that interfacing and attach it
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to one of your main pieces of fabric
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i use the iron on type so i'm simply
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going to iron it on
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be very careful to check that you get
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the glue side
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onto the back of your main piece of
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fabric
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okay so it's the back of the main piece
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of fabric
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when you've applied your heat if it's
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still not stuck quite
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completely everywhere just have another
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go
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whilst we're ironing we're going to take
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our two pocket pieces
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and along the long side the seven inch
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side we're going to turn a small
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hem and i do mean small probably about
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quarter of an inch
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and then turn that hem again to give us
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a double hem
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and get rid of any raw edges
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so that's on the larger pocket piece
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repeat that for the smaller pocket piece
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so that both of them have got a very
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tidy
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top edge of their pocket
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if you want to you can pin those but i
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think they press they hold well enough
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because you're going to sew along the
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hem that you've just made
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you can do it in matching or contrasting
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thread
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i'm using the white all the way through
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so that you can see everything i'm doing
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but just run along the edge of the hem
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of
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each pocket piece
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make sure you finishes your edges you've
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threaded either end
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and you can see that's just going to
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hold that hem in place nicely
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when the pocket is made
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so we're doing it for one pocket we're
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just going to repeat the process exactly
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for the other pocket
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so that they're both ready to go in
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we're now going to think about the strap
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so take your strap piece and fold it in
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half
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lengthways and press
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get a nice firm fold
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open it back up and then
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fold one edge towards that center
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and press it you're basically splitting
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your
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strap piece into quarters into four
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equal lengths
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you'll see i jump sometimes because the
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reflective
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surface that i'm ironing on can get a
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little bit warm
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to say the least so just press carefully
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along
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and then we're going to fold those two
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edges in and then
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fold along the central fold
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and just press it again to hold it all
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in place
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because this is going to form your strap
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so you don't want any raw edges
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once it's pressed you're happy with it
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it's time to sew it
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so you simply need to place it under
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your machine and
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sew along the edges that you've just
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folded together
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it's your choice you can sew along both
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long edges
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to make a certain style of strap but you
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only need to sew along one edge which is
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what i'm going to do
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you can also adjust it as you're going
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along or you could pin it so that
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nothing can move or clip it
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you'll see that as i'm sewing along it i
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just keep adjusting that edge i just
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keep making sure i'm happy with it
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making sure it's sitting right
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so that i get a nice strap
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once you get all the way to the end
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we're going to just sew
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our two ends of our strap together so
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that they sit
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nicely when we sew the whole wallet and
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nothing can move about
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so i'm going to show you what i mean
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once i've trimmed my threads
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i'm going to loop
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and then place the two ends so they sit
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next to one another
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and i'm just going to sew over the end
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now the only thing that matters here is
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that you stay very close to the end
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because you don't want any of those
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stitches to show when you finished your
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wallet
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just pop it into your machine sew along
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one and then
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place the other one up against it and
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keep sewing
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it should just hold those two in place
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for you when you come to assemble your
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wallet
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again i will show you it once i take it
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out from the machine
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you'll see that i've just reversed back
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to make sure it's all secure
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nothing's going to come undone and i'll
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trim off my threads so they don't end up
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anywhere i don't want them
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so we have a strap all ready to attach
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to the wallet
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so i'm going to take the piece of wallet
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the main piece that's got no interfacing
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on it
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pasting it right sides up and i'm going
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to place the larger pocket
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on it right sides up so you can see
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it's just going to form the inside of
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the wallet
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now measure a couple of inches down from
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the top of the pocket
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and just mark it i'm going to pin the
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two pieces together
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and then move across the wallet and
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measure two inches down again
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then you're going to sew along this line
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that you've marked
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now if you prefer you can get a fabric
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marker
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and you can draw that line in i'm just
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going to
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take it and sew it but this is to stop
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your tea bags disappearing down too deep
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into the pocket so you can't get them
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out
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so just pop it to your machine if you've
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wanted to you've drawn a straight line
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or you're just going to run along the
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line of the pins
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there's the bonus effect of holding
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those two together while we carry on
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building the wallet
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so we're going to place those down need
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to find that smaller pocket
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and place that lined up at the bottom of
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the wallet and you can see how it's
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going to form those pockets inside your
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wallet
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and then get the strap and we're going
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to place that
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on top of the larger pocket above the
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lower pocket the smaller pocket
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now i'm just putting a clip on it to
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hold it in place you can pin it
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it's up to you and take the large
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piece of main fabric that had the
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interfacing on it
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and place that on top so we've now
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formed a sandwich
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and pin all the way around i choose to
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pin the corners
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and at each corner i check everything's
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lined up and then i place it down and
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check everything's lying flat
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and just keep doing that until you're
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happy with it
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get a pin in through where the strap is
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make sure it's all secure
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now at the top you need to leave a gap
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so that you can turn this
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out so at least two inches maybe a
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little bit more
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and i mark it with pins so i don't
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accidentally sew the whole thing
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shut now i'm going to sew
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all the way around except for the hole
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at the top
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so go to your machine do a little bit of
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reversing make sure it's secure
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get to the corner lift the foot turn 90
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degrees and go again
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repeat that at each corner you're just
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working your way around the whole wallet
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i tend to have the machine foot along
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the edge of the fabric
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cut your ends off and now it's ready to
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turn out
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but i recommend so you don't get too
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much bulk that you cut the corner off at
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each corner
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you want to get close to the stitching
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but not so close that you risk clipping
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the stitches this is just going to
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remove reduce some of the bulk when you
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turn it out
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and now it's time to turn it out so
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you're literally just going to turn it
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through
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and your wallet should appear as if by
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magic
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now if you've watched any of my other
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sewing tutorials you'll know the
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chopstick is my favorite tool
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for getting to the corners it's not too
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sharp don't be too rough you don't want
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to poke through your corner
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but poke it into each corner until
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you've got a nice
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crisp corner or as crisp as you want it
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and then we're going to be in a position
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to press
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the wallet i really recommend pressing
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it before you sew it because you'll get
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a much better finish you can take the
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time
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to make sure all your edges are flat and
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how you want them
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and then top sew all the way around
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so it'll top so and make a really neat
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nice finish
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and it'll also sew over that hole you
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left in the top
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so it'll close it up nicely you'll see i
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just started on the side
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it doesn't really matter where you start
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when you get to the end you're going to
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work over where you started and then
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just do a little bit of a reverse
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just to make sure nothing comes undone
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to make sure you've two sides to your
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wallet and all your teabags don't fall
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around
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fold it in half and mark the center of
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your wallet
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again you can mark this with a pen but
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make sure it's a washable pen so it will
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come off
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or you can just put your pins there like
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i've done and you're going to sew a
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little seam
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straight down the middle and it needs to
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be exactly down the middle
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and then your teabags will fit in either
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side in your four little pockets you've
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made
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there's nothing to stop you're making
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one of these bigger putting more pockets
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in it
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i just think this is a nice little size
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to pop in your bag
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so there you go we're nearly finished at
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this point i recommend you put in some
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tea bags to give it a bit of bulk
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so you can see how it's going to be
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as you can see i'm very much a fruit tea
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sort of person
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and then fold it short put your lead tab
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across
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and see where your button needs to go
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and then
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mark where the button needs to go you
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can take your teabags back
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out and you're going to sew the button
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on so you want to work from the front
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nice little stitches a little stitch
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then through the button
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and you want to make sure you do not sew
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through either of your pockets inside
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it's really important that you do nice
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little stitches that only go through
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that top surface of fabric and
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interfacing
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that'll be strong enough to hold it
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remember you did make it stronger with
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interfacing
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because you don't want to see these
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stitches on the inside and you don't
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want them in your pockets
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so if you need to put your fingers
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inside the pocket inside to make sure
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you can't put the needle through
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accidentally see i've just checked the
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pocket there
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just keep checking or keep your fingers
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in the pocket
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then once you're happy finish off
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and then cut off your thread and there
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you have it
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you've completed your little teabag
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wallet
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you might find it feels a little loose
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with no tea bags in
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it'll be great once you get them back in
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so good luck with your tea bag wallet
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and i hope you enjoy it and enjoy having
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your tea with you whenever you need it
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or i hope the people you give it to
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enjoy it as a gift
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