Christmas Wallets

I usually go with gift cards for the kids' teachers at Christmas.  This year I thought it would be nice if they were in pretty wallets as a personal touch.  Of course, I made that decision the night before the last day of school before Christmas, so then I had to scramble.  D has one teacher, but L changes class and has three teachers, so I needed four total.  I followed this tutorial (sizes for a gift card wallet are at the end of the directions) and managed to make four that are each a little different in about 2.5 hours:

I've made this pattern once before, so it wasn't completely new, but I had to spend a lot of time refreshing myself and sorting out which colors were going where and trying to find the fusible interfacing, so I could probably get the total time down if I do them again.  If I had nothing better to do, I'd go through now and make a bunch for next year (L will probably have 6-8 teachers next year in middle school, though we likely won't do something for all of them).  In reality - I will probably be making them at the last minute again next year!

I keep a stash of buttons and hair loops on hand for closures now, after the first time I made these.  Need to figure out if there is someplace I can get just one color of the loops because I seem to be running through red much faster than any other colors.

The kids reported they were well received, which makes the effort worth it!