Dice Pouch

my second leathercraft project, this was born out of a "well now what do i do" circumstance, after buying a large quantity of low quality leather remnants from hobby lobby.

i was looking for ideas, and a drawstring dice pouch came to mind. just like my belt pouch, this was an instance of making my own template partially out of necessity, because any i could find online used a large single piece of material for the entirety of the pouch, with a second piece as reinforcement down the middle. unfortunately this, and the fact that i decided to sew this right-sides together, resulted in it not being a very usable dice tray!

you can sorta see the issue in this picture: there are huge ridges in the bottom of the tray when it is unfolded, so dice don't really roll well in it 🥲 this photo doesn't actually do justice to just how much those seams get in the way.

oh well! it's pretty good at holding dice at least, or probably any other manner of things. i've thought about what might be a cool little trinket to hand out at a ren-faire... maybe i'll just pack it full of peanuts or some other walking-around snack

anyway, i'm happy with how this turned out, even though it was made with a bunch of compromises and doesn't really do it's job well. one thing i do really like about it (sadly not pictured) is how i did the belt loop; turning some super floppy leather into something a little more stiff and clean by doing fold-over edges.

i'd like to say i learned lessons here, but not really? i probably would have made it bigger if i had enough material to do so. maybe some day i'll make another dice pouch like this at some point, now that i have some reasonably-sized pieces of leather to use. now i just need to overcome the "only completes one project a month" challenge