I liked the one I had before so I decided to use it as a model. It's fairly big but it can accommodate passport books and lots of cards and when it's folded up it still fits nicely into my back pocket.
I cut a length of buckskin that was 3.5 time the width of a passport book to make three storing compartments and allow a little more so that it would all fold completely onto itself.
The first step was to make slots for credit card-like items. I did that on the back of the left compartment shown above.
I made 8 slots by cutting 8 pieces the width of a credit card and the length of a credit card plus 1/2 inch seams on both sides. Then, starting from the top (important!), I put my credit card down and laid the little piece of buckskin on top of it so that only the top of the credit card would show. Then I stitched the bottom of that little piece and repeated the process down. When they were all in position, I stitched the sides of all of them in one fell swoop. It's important to use thin pieces of buckskin for this or it will get too bulky fast.
To make the two large compartments I cut two passport book-sized (plus 1/2 inch seams) pieces and stitched them to the main piece top and bottom so that the passport books could slide in and out of them from the sides. I used a piece the same size to make the money-holding compartments but I stitched that piece all the way around and across the middle too. Then I cut slits at the top of these compartments to be able to put money in.
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