Sew Powerful Purse #153 (2025)

I made this purse flap from a stack of donated pinwheel blocks I got from a free donation table at a group a couple years ago. Each pinwheel block was in different colors. I made a few purses before using a pinwheel block, but now I am sewing more of them. I had just enough of the Flip Flops (thong sandals) print to make this one purse. It was a fun print to use and perfect for pairing with the pinwheel quilt block as both scream Summertime to me.

I needed to add a few fabric strips to make the quilt block the right size for the purse flap.

Love those flip flops!

This print is so fun and perfect for summer!

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Sew Powerful Purses #151-152 (2025)

2 more selvage purse flaps paired with upcycled denim blue jeans for the purse bodies. These were donated to Sew Powerful Purse Project. I upcycled both the selvage fabric edges as well as using denim jeans that I upcycled into the purse bodies. Waste not want not 😄. I hope the girls who receive these enjoy them. I really wanted to use up the denim jeans and selvages that I had on hand and this is a great project for using them both!

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Sew Powerful Purses #145-150 (2025)

Here are 6 more purses using all kinds of scrap fabrics, yarn bits, vinyl scraps, the outer cut out bits from die cuts, felt scraps and more and then covered in a gold metallic embossed tulle and quilted. (I recently shared similar purses with blue metallic embossed tulle). I added buttons to all the flaps.

Donated these to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Anything goes when using tiny bits of fabric scraps.

These flaps all look great once they are done. 

All the fronts look like these, but the lining may vary. The tie dye look fabric for the purse bodies was given to me by a quilter. Thanks Rosalie!

The backs all look like theses with pockets. Just love that bright wild fabric!

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Sew Powerful Purse #144 (2025)

I have made a lot of flaps using tiny bits of fabric scraps and other scraps, covered in tulle and quilted the flaps. I wanted to do the same thing for this flap, only I wanted to try denim scraps only (with a few scraps of organza on top for a bit of shimmer). It worked very nicely quilting the denim this way as there were no thick seams to worry about and adding the lining later it was much nicer too without thick seams to topstitch. I quilted it all and then I couched some yarn on top and added buttons too. The tulle I used had some glitter on it too. I tried to remove as much glitter as possible from the outside so it didn't get all over everything. 

Quilted and added couched yarns and added buttons.

This was a fabric that was given to me by a quilter I know. I love the tie dye look!

Back slip pocket.

I made several purses using this tie dye look lightweight canvas material and scrappy flaps. I will be sharing the rest of them soon. 

Donating this and a whole box of other purses I made to Sew Powerful Purse Project. I just packed up a box of 95 purses this morning. Yippee!!! 

Got to go clean and oil my machines next and then start sewing some more kits I just cut up ready to sew. It sure feels good to send a box of purses off to help some girls in Zambia and South Africa too. I used up a lot of fabric, but still no visible dent in my fabrics, except for the selvages that I used making a ton of flaps recently and the denim jeans I used for several purse bodies too. Now I need to make more denim scrappy flaps like this one to shrink the denim scraps bag down.

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Sew Powerful Purses 134-143 (2025)

10 more purses with scrappy fabrics quilted with tulle over the scraps, plus added buttons. 

I use all sorts of scraps, even the outer cut out bits of hearts, and circles from die cutting. Embossed blue tulle and lots of quilting hold it all together.

I also add bits of sparkly yarn, vinyl scraps, an organza scraps.

The left purse I couched some yarn and rickrack on top.

I used up this blue home dec print that I have had for years. All the purses look like these.

All the backs with slip pockets look like these.

Donating these to Sew Powerful Purse Project. I finished sewing the last several purse kits I had ready to sew and have taken photos of those that I will share as soon as I upload them off the camera. Meanwhile, I have been busy cutting out more purse kits the past several days, so I will be back to sewing some more purses this week. I need just a few more purses to fill up a box of purses so that I can send them off to California to Sew Powerful. 

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Sew Powerful Purses 132-133 (2025)

Here are 2 purse flaps using all kinds of scraps, covered in a blue embossed tulle and quilted and some added buttons. Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

A fabric with a bee and the butterfly is part of the embossed tulle.

Another bee. June is Bee Challenge on the Sew Powerful Facebook Group.

Front slip pockets.

Back slip pockets.

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Sew Powerful Purse 131 (2025)

May's purse theme challenge on the Sew Powerful Facebook group was Butterflies. Each month there is a challenge, just for fun. June's theme is Bees. 3 of my butterfly purses that I made in the past were featured on the post announcing this challenge. We can add our challenge purses anytime to the album in the group, so I will add this one there now as I recently got it finished.

The fabric I used for the body is the same home dec fabric I used for the purses I posted yesterday.

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