GOGO13 Wallet

Hello all,

I am now in a place in my life where I'm able to be making a lot more, and will be posting my works here far more often.
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This past week I decided to make a wallet. This has been something I've been wanting to make for quite some time now, and I don't mean a duct tape wallet, I've made enough of those.
For this wallet my material of choice was vinyl, something I'm relatively familiar with.
When a cut of orange vinyl was on sale at my work, I knew exactly what must be done; I must make a GOGO13 wallet.

Sadly I didn't take too many pictures, so I'll just be talking you through the process.

First I made a template out of paper. A lot of this process was me sitting there starring at the table trying to figure this out, since vinyl has to be worked with much differently than duct tape. But I eventually came up with a two piece pattern that worked pretty well.

But before I started cutting out wallet pieces, I needed to make the front logo. The logo I chose to go with is the G13 "Free Agent".

I first cut the logo out of black vinyl, but decided it would look better printed on white vinyl.

I printed out the logo in many different sizes to figure out the best size and once I figured it out the best size I printed out a few of that size onto a sheet of label paper. A few of them for when I inevitably made a mistake.

Using an exacto blade I cut out the positive from the label and applied the negative to a piece of white vinyl. I then painted it with a vinyl spray paint. After removing the stencil, I cut the printed piece to shape, and sewed it onto the front wallet piece.

I cut out the pocket pieces and backed all the pieces with interfacing. It was then that I decided to make the pockets both orange and black.

I couldn't decide on the order so I took to social media for for suggestion.

The majority said back/orange/black and I agreed. I stitched over the folds and printed the "G13" on one of the black pockets using the same method of "printing" as before.

The rest was basically just sewing it all together. My sewing machine isn't really made to handle so much vinyl, so there a few less stitches than I wanted and some of the stitches are wonky, but overall it came out great and has held up well being used as my everyday wallet for the past week.

I'm purchasing a heavy duty machine this week and will be working on many new things in the weeks to come.

-Miles