Alternate Snap Enclosure on a Homemade Wallet

Video Transcript

"Ok now I'm going to show you the ultimate method of closure, on your wallet. We just did a Velcro and now we are going to do a snap instead. I usually do the snap before I fold it up and sew it. This is the snap fastener, I usually like to put the top one on first so you're going to take the shiny, pretty one, put that on the plastic side and then you're going to attach the other part that would be this flat piece. Go in there like that, there's usually directions on the fastener, it might be a little easier to try to follow those. Then we're going to want it on the top, so you just get it about where you want it, make sure it's centered, and give it a real good squeeze. If you don't have it lined up, it won't go. You'll see sides sticking out. You can tell if it's on their right because you can look at the back and see where the prongs have hit, on the inside that one's on there nice and solid. I'm going to fold it up and see where I want the other snap to go. I usually take my pen and make a little mark. You have to line these up the same way, this pointed one goes on the plastic side, face down, and then the skinniest piece, go the other way. You always have the spikes facing up because it wants to catch with the other part and you want to line it up. You can kind of push it down and see where the teeth are going to come up. Make sure everything is in there, good and snug and do the same thing, give it a good squeeze and it's on there. Then, the final test, you want to snap it and pull it. I usually do that a few times and make sure all the pieces stay on. Then, once you have that, like that, you just do like we did before and sew down the edges and that is how you do it with a snap."