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How to Make a Card Holder

TOOLS AND MATERIALS NEEDED

• Pattern
• Round Knife
• Point Knife
• Scissors
• (2) needles size 18
• 46 Nylon Bond Thread
• #8 Stitch Marker
• Stabbing Awl
• Wing Dividers
• #1 Edger
• Glass Slicker
• Chap Leather 2-3oz.
• Burnishing Rag

STEP 1 – To start you will grab all the materials you need.

STEP 2 – Now you will grab your piece of leather and your patterns to trace.

SIDENOTE – The patterns used in this demonstration are found at the bottom of this page.

STEP 3 – While tracing the pattern for the back piece you will trace the back end and the sides, then you will flip the pattern and trace the other end and sides.

After you finish tracing the back and front

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