Sew Powerful Purses #200-204 for 2026

5 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. I completed over 200 purses now and I have cut out probably another 200+ purse kits to sew for the rest of the year. The September Sew-a-thon and Fundraiser are coming up in September, so I will be ready to sew those kits I have waiting then. The Fundraiser part starts in August-September and the sewing part is in September only. I wonder how many purses I can complete in the month of September this year? Last year I was one of the top ten purses makers, completing 160 purses for the month of September. Can I top last year's number? I hope so.

 I pained the background using a stencil and fabric paint and quilted the flap too. I fussy cut the dress form from a piece of fabric and appliquéd it in place. I had a gold plastic sewing needle and pair of scissors that I stitched on by hand for added bling.

Another X-Block quilt block with added fabrics around it to make it large enough for the flap. I shared one of these recently and this is another one I had made into a flap.

I don't recall where I got this fabric, but thought it was perfect for a flap. I had to cut the height of the fabric down a few inches. The fabric showed their entire skirts, making it too tall to use for the flap. 

I used a quilt block I had and a 4-patch quilt block I had and sewed scraps around to create these two flaps. 

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Sew Powerful Purses #196-199 for 2026

Four more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. Scrappy pieced flaps, with one appliqué butterfly.

Bear Paw quilt block and scraps.

Scrappy background with added appliqué butterfly.

Pineapple quilt block on point.

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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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