Checkbook Cover to match your Wonder Wallet and handbag!

Great job Leslie! I love your fabric, and your directions are as clear as a bell.

Checkbook covers lead such a hard life. I'm wondering if you would want to give your creation a coat of something to protect it somewhat. Decades ago, you could have sprayed it with ScotchGuard but I haven't seen it mentioned in a long time. Polly

I must congratulate you Leslie, on the super idea of taking the photographs with instructions on how to make it - the clicking on the photo is particularly smart. Well done indeed. Also, I was wondering and wondering about the piece of elastic!!! What a great idea again. Thank you for you recent 'public service broadcasts' >g<

This one, though, beats the enabling sites! . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

We still have it, Polly. It might be under another name (a take-over?), or it might be the same? I just ask for Scotch Guard and the can comes!! I've never noticed if the name is the same. . In message , Polly Esther writes

Lovely job Leslie on the finished item and the instructions and what a great idea to make them to match the Wonder Wallet.

Please can I ask a favour - what are the dimensions of your chequebook? I am sure UK ones are a slightly different size (and you can get them with or without counterfoils), so I'll need to work out how much to add on/take off where.

Lizzy

So pretty, almost makes me wish I used checks! Roberta in D

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Lizzy-

Both the check register and the pad of checks measures 6 in. X 3 in. The checkbook *is* a bit floppy. I couldn't figger out how to make it stiffer without preventing it from going thru the sewing machine. I plan to us a permanent fabric glue to *glue* a flap with Velcro to it today- since it's already finished sewing would be a bother. It is intended to go into one of the pockets in the handbag, so the "floppiness" won't be an issue for me.

Leslie

I think it has been re-formulated to remove the chemicals that were deemed dangerous. Of course, the folks around the 3M facility where it was made are still living with it in their ground water :(. My son lives in one of those communities; he assures me that their municipal water supply is probably the safest in the area because of all the extra filtration that has been added, financed in large part by 3M.

Julia > We still have it, Polly.

You could have used a fairly stiff fusible interfacing. I just googled "checkbook pattern" and came up with one that used fusible interfacing. I made one out of denim for my husband once because he went through the plastic ones so fast. He used it a long time before he lost it :(. I don't remember, but I suspect that I used a fusible interfacing in it.

I love your idea of using contact plastic for the duplicate checks. I have often tried to figure out how I would do that. (DH didn't use duplicate checks when I made his cover.) You can also buy clear plastic by the yard; that might work, too.

One of the patterns I found online had an optional ID pocket. That might be another place the clear plastic could be used. Lots of possiblities for check book covers. I use my debit card a lot and always record my purchases in my check register. I would probably add a debit card pocket.

Julia > Lizzy-

what a great idea! you did such a great job! i wonder if a stiff interfacing between the lining and outside would work? amy

Lazy Girl Designs also has a check book cover pattern. The description mentions an elastic band to hold your page in the register.

I think I might have to make a check book cover to match the bag I am planning to make from Jenny Raymond's "Easy on the Back Bag" pattern. . I want to make a new wallet, too, but I haven't decided yet whether I am going to get the Wonder Wallet pattern or come up with my own pattern. Years ago (at least 25) I made a wallet from the book "Easy to Sew Quilted and Patchwork Purses". I'm still using it (though haven't used it all the time), but think it might be time for a new one to match the bag.

Julia in MN

I saw that Lazy Girl had a checkbook cover pattern, but I've already ordered

5 of her patterns, so I decided to challenge myself to create my own. I wasted enough time and fabric that I would have been better off just ordering her pattern! LOL I noticed her elastic over the checkbook register slightly distorted the cover, so I passed on that idea.

Leslie & The Furbabies >> I was paying some bills (ugh!) and noticed my plastic checkbook cover

When I worked for the State of Missouri, we were in a department that was rather poorly financed, so instead of purchasing a laminating machine, my female-boss bought the clear self-adhesive Contact shelf plastic and we used it to laminate! So, I just borrowed her idea- it works quite well for laminating! Women are so creative and inventive..... we manage to make do with what is available- much of the time. VBG

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

*Very* nice, Leslie! :)

Ooooh!! I love it!! Did you have a pattern to start with/modify or did you sketch it out yourself (not sure if'n that made sense)??? Wow!! It really is awesome!!

Don't s'pose you have any other "Leslie patterns" to share, do you??! :-)

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I have some 'experiments' on my WebShots pages- machine lace and bleach pen color removal come to mind. I did this from scratch- that's how I wasted my pretty purple print fabrics. I make three before I was happy with the result. ;-)

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