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Okay, now we're going to prepare the pattern for our wallet. You'll notice this is kind
of a style it will be, only I mass produced mine, and the style I make them I have to
put bias tape on the outside, that won't be required for how we're making them today.
This kind of gives you an idea what style it's going to be. It's a tri-fold so it comes
up; not tri-fold as in, you could put pictures in it and stuff, but that's how we're going
to fold it. It'll fold over once, and then come back over for the top. So I've actually
notice that if you take a piece a paper straight from your printer and fold it over like so, and then fold it down again to be
your closing part, that is about the size you would want, the length you would want
to cut your piece. Now that's kind of wide, so what I want to do is decide; you always
want to allow it to be larger than what you're going to make, because you do have to allow
for the seams. You can do them whatever size you like. The longer size works for your longer
stuff, shorter size works great for change for the tolls, that's what we keep in our
van. Just kind of decide about how wide you want it, and then you just cut off the excess.
And I like to cut it while it's folded, because for me it's easier to see. You can use a ruler
to make more of a straight line if you want. I like to eyeball stuff, I don't like rulers,
don't like numbers, so this is how I do it. And that will be your pattern.