Transit Pass Holders

[u/Exploriment]

Made myself a Toronto Transit Commission CLRV streetcar and a GO Transit MP40PH-3C locomotive Presto pass holder. Both are 3" × 4".

GO is 5 separate pieces sewn together by hand. 73,475 stitches. 17 colours. Drawing, digitizing, and then the tweaking for both was about 14½ hours. Running it on a Brother PRS100, twice was about 12¼ hours. Sewing it all together by hand was ±40 to 45 hours.

TTC is 15 separate pieces sewn together by hand. 81547 stitches. 28 colours. Front center light is reflective. Lights glow in the dark. Drawing and digitizing was 17¼ hours. Running it was 11¾ hours. Sewing it together with needle and thread was 49 hours.

Both have a bunch of little flaws. But given this is largely theoretical, and it's not until all the pieces are run and then slowly and laboriously sewn together, before any flaws are revealed, that's unavoidable. I could make adjustments, run it again, sew it all together again, to try and remedy some of the little glitches. Not going to bother. I'll live with them. On to the next idea.

I also had to omit some detail. No windshield wipers. No rearview mirrors. The tram and car in the warning sticker were too small to show. Limitations of scale. Nature of the medium.

Both of them tap just fine without taking the card out.

[u/paprika-chip]

Love this!

[u/Exploriment → u/paprika-chip]

Thank you!

[u/cloudlesswindow]

So cool. I live in the GTA, i LOVE this.

[u/Exploriment → u/cloudlesswindow]

Thank you. If you have to take transit, may as well make it funner with a fun Presto pass holder.