Where payback turns out not to be a bitch after all

The Village Haberdashery is my favourite online fabric shop. Actually, thinking about it, it's my favourite fabric shop full stop. Annie has put together a fantastic range of gorgeous fabrics, as well as pretty much all the other stuff you need for sewing, and it is all presented so beautifully with a brilliantly user-friendly interface. Oh, and she is also really nice.

As proof of the niceness, she randomly sent me a bundle of lovely Kei Honeycombs the other day. Once I got over the squealing and excitement (and wrestled them away from the kids) I decided that what I really needed was a wallet. Pretty much everything else in my handbag (including the handbag) is handmade, and having a boring old leather purse was just not good enough. I have extremely high standards, you know.

I used this fabulous tutorial, with minor modifications (instead of folding over and topstitching the pieces for the credit card holder, I doubled the fabric so that they were fully lined). Topstitching through the million layers was interesting, but I used the walking foot and a size 16 needle and it went just fine.

note the traditional hilariously bad driving licence photo

I was so happy with how it turned out - it looks surprisingly professional, I think - that I made another one for Annie. Without the contents, though. I'm not that nice.