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My pleasure, sir.

Because if you do that you will have stitches poking through the top piece. You don't want that. You want a flat, continuous piece with no disturbances at the edges.

A couple of tips:

You can use any twill fabric (twill is identifiable by the diagonal pattern on the back--look it up on Wikipedia). Denim is twill, Chino is not.

Also, don't fiddle-fart around...

Now you have a strip of denim without an apparent edge. Sew on some D-rings and you're done.

When the glue is dry (about 15 min), stick the narrower piece to the middle of the wider piece. Put some cement on the edges of the wider piece and on the edges of the narrower piece. Wait for the...

Forgive my lousy photography, I hope it's good enough to get the point across. To make a "linen" strop out of denim, you need an outer piece wrapped around a core piece, to simulate the weaves of...