Stationery Pouch

I found myself keeping my envelopes in one place and stamps, address labels and pens in another. To make things more efficient I decided to make a pouch where I could keep everything in one place.

I had left over brown felt from a previous project which I used as the base and might as well get rid of that piece of green and gold upholstery fabric.   The upholstery fabric would give it a little color.

For some strange reason I had to keep running through my head, the sections I'd need . So I decided to mark them off.  Long , short envelopes, address labels, stamps, pens.

I'll highlight the divisions by  putting a strip of the green/gold at the opening. And to make it even prettier , I'd make the fold over of the envelope pouch out of the green. 

😞 Now that I look at it, I don't like the crookedness. I also don't like the green thread I used which I thought would bring out the green of the fabric.

But, I can stencil over the stitches with green metallic paint. And, the flap covers the wonky pockets.

But wait!

You sewed the flap on BACKWARDS!!! The pretty fabric folds inside the pouch and won't be seen from outside. 

FAIL

Though I'm disappointed, I'll try again.

To be continued...   

NOTE: 5-30-2019 An update can be found in the middle of the page here.