Travel Wallet: Easy and Practical

Travelling can be challenging while carrying bags, luggage and all the documents. I want to have a travel wallet to put my traveling documents and passport to keep them safe and tidy. I hope you find it useful.
I get inspired by two projects to make my wallet.

Links of the projects: https://www.instructables.com/Two-Dollar-Travel-Wa...

https://www.instructables.com/Travel-Purse/

Cotton fabric

Scissors

A4 size cardboard

Glue

Sewing thread and needle

Elastic Hair Tie

I used an envelope that is suitable for A5 size papers. I created a hole in the middle of the envelope to ease the folding. After ironing the cotton fabric, I put the envelope on the top of the fabric to mark the cutting lines considering seam allowance.

For the passport pocket, I use upcycled jeans pocket, but regular fabric can be sewed as a pocket alternatively. I pinned the jeans pocket into the fabric and sewed it. After that, I glued the top and bottom sides of the fabric to the cardboard.

I sewed the right and left sides of the fabric. The cardboard was not sewed.

I put my documents and passport into the travel wallet. I used an elastic hair tie to fold the two sides. I didn't sew the elastic hair tie to the fabric at the folding corner, but I realized that stabilizing the hair tie would be better.

This open design project was done as part of the ID736 Open Design and Distributed Creativity course, at the Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, in the 2021-2022 Spring semester. The purpose was to carry out a small project to openly share online.