Sew Powerful Purses #192-195 for 2026

Four purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. Three scrappy pieced with appliqué flowers and one with stencil painted background. 

I used a Southwest stencil to paint the background. I added an appliqué flower and an embroidered flower patch over the appliqué flower. Quilted with serpentine stitch.  

Scrappy pieced background with Echinacea appliqué flower. 

Circle  appliqué flower (see tutorial under Tip of the Morning Tuesday).

Lining that matches my circle appliqué flower.

Another scrappy pieced background with Echinacea flower appliqué.

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Sew Powerful Purses #186-191 for 2026

6 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. Scrappy pieced flaps, most with appliqué flowers. I made fabric straps for 5 of these purses and one I used a webbing strap.

Echinacea flower is my favorite flower (sunflowers are a favorite flower of mine too), so I added a large flower over his scrappy background. The brown cone didn't show as well as I liked, so I painted with a fabric maker around the top of the cone, giving it a bit of a halo effect.

This flower is made from wool fabric.

The flower petals is a felt material, while the center of the flower is cotton.

I cut this flower from a leftover piece that was quilted already.

Using some leftover fabrics for this flap.

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Sew Powerful Purses #183-185 for 2026

3 more purses finished to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Patchwork flap using leftovers from a tote bag I made years ago. I made the strap for this purse.

A cute dog lining flap. Thanks Tara for the dog fabric!

Scrappy pieced flap.

Scrappy pieced flap with a flower appliqué added. I made a matching strap too.

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Sew Powerful Purses #180-182 for 2026

3 more purses finished to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. Scrappy pieced flaps and my circle appliqué flowers again too. (see Tio of the Morning Tuesday for the tutorial for making flowers from circles).

I had a 4-patch already made, so set it on point and added other fabrics around it to make it flap size. Made the strap using scraps of purple fabrics sewn together.

A large circle flower with scrappy background. Even made a flower in the button. Used 2 webbing straps from a shopping bag and added fabric joins to create the correct length needed for the bag.

This is the flap lining that looks like my circle flowers.

Scrappy pieced flap to use up some red and pink scraps.

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Sew Powerful Purses #178-179 for 2026

2 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. 

I had this cool looking fabric print, so I used it for the flaps and part of one purse body too. The other purse body print went well with the purse flap too. 

I also used that same print for the flap linings too.

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Bear Paw Quilt & Wonky Stars Quilt

I just donated these two quilts to Wrap the World With Quilts. I first made these quilts in 1998 and 1999. The Bear Paw quilt I made for my daughter when she was a teenager in high school and the Wonky Stars quilt I made the year before in 1998. They weren't used much at all. Sat on their beds for a few years and then when they got older and moved out on their own, they didn't take the quilts with them. I saved them for years, thinking they might want them one day, but no. So rather than keep them tucked away in the cedar chest, I decided to donate these quilts to some people in Ukraine so they can use and enjoy them and bring them hope and happiness. I left the labels on each quilt with the date made and to my daughter or son. I registered the quilts online with Wrap the World With Quilts, and said where I wanted them to go and wrote a note to the person who will receive the quilt(s) that I made these for my daughter (or son) and wanted to pass them along to them now. They were made with lots of love and I hope the recipient can feel the love that went into these quilts. I hand quilted them too as I had no idea then how to machine quilt them and I never even knew there were any longarm quilter back then.

These were also made many years before I started blogging, so I wanted a record of having made them here on my blog.

I got an email these were shipped. Safe journey quilts.

Bear Paw made out of mostly purple and green batik fabrics, my daughters favorite colors at the time. She has since changed her favorite color(s) many times over the years and I have no idea what her favorite color is now. I over made a lot of the bear paw blocks at the time, not knowing how many I would need. I turned one into a pincushion, so I will always have a small reminder of this quilt.

I remember hunting for purple and green batiks for a year or so before making this quilt. Buying a fat quarter or more every place I found some I liked. 

I made this Wonky Stars quilt for my son. He loved looking through his telescope at night at the moon and stars. I wondered if he might study astronomy or get into that field one day, but no he didn't. I think he still does like astronomy though.

All hand quilted.

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Sew Powerful Purses #176-177 for 2026

One purse flap with a painted stencil background and the other flap scrappy pieced. Both have flowers that were circles first and then I cut into flowers and appliquéd them to the flaps. Check my Tip of the Morning Tuesday page for the tutorial How to Make Flowers from Circles.

Donating these 2 purses to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I painted the background using this stencil and Shiva Painstiks. 

I am trying to only use this fabric for the flap lining of purse flaps that have circles cut into flower shaped appliqué, since this print looks just like my flowers cut from circles. I used this lining on both flap linings.

I sewed scraps around the hexagon shape in the center.

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