Sew Powerful Purses #420-429 for 2026

10 more purses finished to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. This is the last week of the annual September Fundraiser too. Please could you donate something, anything at all so that Sew Powerful reaches their goal to serve 25,000 girls in order that they can stay in school and get an education? The QR code and the link is at the end of this post. Pretty, pretty please, with a cherry and whip cream on top? If everyone donates something they just might make their goal. Thank you so much! You don't have to live in the USA to donate in case that is stopping you.

I made many purses using pink scraps and some added decorative machine stitches.

Appliqué teacup flap too.

Please donate in my honor for the Sew-a-thon. Click here and then choose the amount to donate. $10 fills one purse to keep one girl in school. Thank you so much for your support!🤗

Use this QR code to donate to the Fundraiser during the month of September or the link above. Thanks so much! 🤗

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Sew Powerful Purses #409-419 for 2026

Eleven more purses finished and ready to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Scrappy flaps! I used miscellanous units I had already pieced and added more scraps to create the flap on the left.

Lots of fun decorative machine stitches on these 2. The left one was scrappy pieced and the one on the right was just fabric. Do you have a preference?

This was a Zentangle that I drew onto fabric and sewed on some Punchinella (sequin waste) by hand and I quilted this piece too. I was thinking it might be a nice small wall hanging when I started this years and years ago. I never made it into anything, so I cut it into a flap and just added the handmade label. 

The Zentangle flap folded to the front here and a string quilt block on the right with some added decorative stitches.

Log cabin flap.

A Bountiful Basket quilt block flap on left and just a fabric on the right. The large flower print was perfect as is for a flap. Just added a few buttons is all.

Please donate in my honor for the Sew-a-thon. Click here and then choose the amount to donate. $10 fills one purse to keep one girl in school. Thank you so much for your support!🤗

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Sew Powerful Purses #397-408 for 2026

12 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project! Lots of Pineapple flaps and patchwork squares and other scrappy pieced flaps too.

Pineapple quilt block flap on left and scrappy patchwork squares on right. Scrap busting flaps! But the scraps still pile up anyway 😜!!!

Please donate in my honor for the Sew-a-thon. Click here and then choose the amount to donate. $10 fills one purse to keep one girl in school. Thank you so much for your support!🤗

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Sew Powerful Purses #393-396 for 2026

4 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project that I completed during September this month for the Sew-a-thon.

Another flap using a Bountiful Baskets quilt block I made from 3P Designs.

Srtips with added rickrack.

Painted and stenciled backgrounds with appliqué flowers.

Please donate in my honor for the Sew-a-thon. Click here and then choose the amount to donate. $10 fills one purse to keep one girl in school. Thank you so much for your support!🤗

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Sew Powerful Purses #386-392 for 2026

7 more purses finished during the Sew-a-thon & Fundraiser this month for Sew Powerful. Thank you for supporting me in this effort with your kind words and donations. There are many sponsors who have generously donated products for prizes for the Sew-a-thon. The top 2 people who received the most donations during the fundraiser will get to choose the prize they want (like a particular model of a Bernina, Janome or Babylock sewing machine that was offered). Then everyone who has received $100 or more in donations will be in the drawing to possibly win a prize by other sponsors generated by a random number generator. No guarantee of winning anything though, but to me the biggest prize is knowing that there will be 1,000's of girls who will receive an education and can stay in school all month long. Scroll to the end to donate on my behalf to keep a girl(s) in school. Thank you!

I used a wool flower and hand stitched it on.

One of the purses below has this lining because the 2 purses below were made by upcycling a red Starbucks apron. The pocket you see is the apron pocket, so I didn't need to make a pocket, yay! 

I got 2 purses made by upcycling a Starbucks apron. I used red scraps, including scraps from the apron, to create the flaps. I added a wool appliqué teacup & saucer and teapot.

I cut a charm pack into smaller squares.

2 scrappy batik fabric flaps.

Scrappy batik fabric flap.

Please donate in my honor for the Sew-a-thon. Click here and then choose the amount to donate. $10 fills one purse to keep one girl in school. Thank you so much for your support!🤗

Use this QR code to donate to the Fundraiser during the month of September or the link above. Thanks so much! 🤗

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Sew Powerful Purses #366-385 for 2026

20 more purses done! Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project. Made these this month for the Sew-a-thon & Fundraiser.

Please donate in my honor for the Sew-a-thon. Click here and then choose the amount to donate. $10 fills one purse to keep one girl in school. Thank you so much for your support!🤗

Use this QR code to donate to the Fundraiser during the month of September or the link above. Thanks so much! 🤗

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