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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Sew Powerful Purses #171-175 (2026)

5 purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Scrappy pieced purse flap with appliqué butterfly. Mostly batik fabrics.

Scrappy pieced purse flaps in pinks.

Scrappy pieced purse flaps with added circle appliqué on top that was fabric that I painted and stamped.

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Sew Powerful Purse #170 (2026)

This purse flap I made using the X-Blocks ruler. I love this setting the best from the blocks that I have tried. I set the quilt block on point and added scraps all around to bring the flap up to size. I have been making straps with any leftovers if I have enough fabric leftover and I sometimes add other fabrics to make the strap long enough. It is a bit time consuming to make the strap versus just cutting a length of webbing, but I like the fabric straps better than webbing straps, although the webbing is much cheaper, doesn't require interfacing and like I said, quicker to use.

Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Here is how the entire flap looks before folding a couple of inches to the back of the bag. As you can see the top of the flap is never seen from the front.

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Sew Powerful Purses #167-169 (2026)

Hello people, I have finished 3 more purses, all with Pineapple quilt blocks. I made several pineapple quilt blocks years ago and sewed them all together into a very small piece that would be good for a table topper or a large doll quilt, but I couldn't decide what to do with the piece. Do I make more blocks and make a larger quilt? I didn't feel like making any more blocks then and when I found this piece, I certainly didn't want to make anymore quilt blocks now either. So I decided to take the blocks apart and use for purse flaps, of course! It was a good decision and I don't remember if I ended up with 12 or 16 blocks as I made the flaps and put them away with the rest of the purse kits I cut out, and have just started to sew a few into finished purses now. They look much better on a purse flap too. I think I originally made these blocks to practice the pineapple cutting tool I had and to use up scraps of fabric too. I can always use the tool again, but make only one or two blocks at a time when I want one for a purse flap again. Donating these to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I love the look of the pineapple quilt block with all the colorful pieces and using batik fabric scraps is a great use for those scraps. 

I used the same print fabric print for all 3 purses bodies.

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