Sunday, September 27, 2026

Sew Powerful Purses #450-461 for 2026

12 more purses finished! Yay! I nearly have two large boxes of purses about ready to send to Sew Powerful this week. Just want to squeeze a few more purses into one of the boxes.

Lots of scrappiness.

Bountiful Baskets quilt blocks designed by 3P Designs made nice purse flaps.

Scrappy with machine decorative stitches and this Bountiful Basket is the Yucca flower, which is New Mexico's state flower. 

Pineapple block on left.

Scrappy flaps made from semi-pieced units.


Last few days left for the Sew-a-thon to donate in my honor to help the girls, although donations are accepted year round. I have been honored by several of you and I thank you all very much! Your kind words about the purses that I make, for what I lovingly call my granddaughters, are much appreciated!!! 

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Saturday, September 26, 2026

Sew Powerful Purses # 440-449 for 2026

There are only a few more days left of the annual Sew Powerful September Fundraiser & Sew-a-thon. 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 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. Thanks to all who have made a donation already!

While I have acheived both my fundraising goal and my purses sewn goal, I am still sewing as many purses as I can through September 30th (before midnight Pacific Time) and accepting as many more donations that come my way too.

Here are 10 more purses that I finished. I love the painted stenciled background with added appliqué flowers or a butterfly on top. More scrappy pieced purses an another Sue Spargo appliqué bird. Sue is one of the Sew-a-thon sponsors this year, so someone could win a prize from her. 

I had a lot of white canvas material that I knew would be great material to use the the purses, but white is not only a bit stark, but can get dirty, so I painted the background of the flaps using some stencils and then added appliqué on top for a WOW factor. These and the others below were fun to create.

A Sue Spargo deigned bird and a scrappy flap with flower appliqué.

More painted stenciled backgrounds with appliqué on top.

Patchwork scrappy pieced flaps.

More quilt blocks, one with added decorative machine stitches.


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Friday, September 25, 2026

Sew Powerful Purses #430-439 for 2026

This is the last week of the annual Sew Powerful September Fundraiser & Sew-a-thon. 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 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. Thanks to all who have made a donation already!

Ten more purses ready to donate to Sew Powerful. I am working to continue making more purses past my goal of 180 purses during this last week of the Sew-a-thon.

More Seminole patchwork flaps and even more down below too.

Lots of scraps!



The center of the flower is a fabric that had a lot of drape to it and a bit see-through too. Fusing fusible web on the back stabilized it and I could cut out a circle with my die cut machine. I have couple of yards or more of that fabric, so will be using it for more appliqué in the future! It also has gold metallic on the fabric. Girls love bling (me too!).

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Thursday, September 24, 2026

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. Pin It Now!

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

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?

Zentangle flap
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!🤗
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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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

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. Pin It Now!
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