A Little Snap Pouch – Inspired by Loganberry Handmade

I found a cute pattern tutorial, the Mini Card Wallet, on a great blog website called loganberryhandmade.com. This website by Susie Ledadom has lots of projects with beautiful photos to inspire an afternoon of sewing fun. The Mini Card Wallet is the perfect way to play with the trend of a neutral duck canvas fabric paired with colorful quilting fabrics. And topped with a cute shiny brass snap closure.

For my version of this little snap pouch, I decided to make the pattern a little larger, partly because the snaps I found at the store were kind of big – 1/2 inch wide.

Also, to create a stronger fabric base for the snap, I added a layer of craft-weight fusible interfacing. Then I cut all the fabric layers 14 x 6 inches.

After fusing the interfacing onto the inside fabric, I sewed the two fabric ends together, inserted the batting, and then I added a top stitch at the end that would become the top of the pocket.

I continued following the Loganberry tutorial, folding up and sewing the fabric to make the pocket (4 1/2 inches) and rounding off the top flap fabric.

Then for the binding, I modified the Loganberry version strictly because of my impatience and laziness – I used some extra 2 1/2 inch quilt binding which was not cut on a bias, and I machine sewed it on! Thanks to the larger size of pouch, it was possible to maneuver the straight binding around the curves.

Most sewers have definite opinions about finishing their binding by hand, but my thoughts are if I can sew it neatly and evenly, I am fine with the look of the machine stitches showing through on the back. See what you think!

Next it was on to adding the snap closure. I was a little nervous about making a mistake on my almost finished piece, especially cutting the little hole in the fabric, so I practiced on a small strip of the same layers of fabric. (Note the awesome seam ripper handle made by my husband for my birthday. He knows me well – I use that tool a lot!)

I like how my version of this snap pouch turned out. It was very quick and easy, and would be a great crafty project to sew with a friend. And thank you Susie for the inspiration!