Flap of Friendship #2 (Purse #52 for 2024)

I completed the purse after receiving the 2nd Flap of Friendship that I signed up to do. This one was made by Susan from Florida. She made it scrappy!!! I posted just the flap in the Facebook Group and Susan commented that was her first scrappy flap she ever made! Gosh, I couldn't believe it. It was pieced so perfectly and colorful scraps too, which is just my style! I completed the purse a couple days after I received, but the weather has been windy or rainy or both, so taking a good photo wasn't going to happen for a while. Yesterday the sun came out for a little while, so I was able to snap some photos and here they are. 

Ta-da! I love those sparkly purple buttons too!

This fabric for the body was donated to a group I belong to. There was just about 1/4 yard

 of it and I knew it would make a nice purse, but paired with the flap Susan made, it really made it come together!!! This is the back of the purse that I added a back pocket to.

The flap lining that Susan used, so I knew purple was a great choice for the purse exterior and this beautiful fabric had both purple and pink in it!

Here is the side showing the gusset and rivet. I made the Intermediate purse and the flap is the beginner style flap, which I always make anyhow myself.

I didn't have enough of the fabric to create the full strap, but I love piecing 2 or more fabrics to create a strap if I am not using webbing. I found another purple fabric to go with the scrap I had and completed the strap and stitched a serpentine stitch down the center of the strap in a variegated thread.

The main lining fabric was something I just won at my quilt group. We have a nametag drawing at each meeting and rarely, if ever win, but they called my name and I won 2 different fat quarters and a small box of pins. This fabric made the perfect lining to go with the rest of the purse, yay!

Here is just the flap that I received from Susan. Thanks Susan! We made a great purse making team.

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