Sew Powerful Purses #226-229 (2024)

Two sets of twin purses. The first is a Siamese cat print flap with upcycled denim jeans body. I cut these out months ago to be made into these purses and recently finished them. Several months ago we we told that cats, bats, owls and hyenas are animals that have negative connotations with the people who live in the rural areas of Zambia. We are not to use those animals in our purses, however there are volunteers in Zambia who will sort through the purses and set aside any with those purses with those animals to make sure they are not sent to the rural schools, so while we shouldn't use those animals, the girls who don't live in rural areas are fine with them. I doubt anyone would make a purse with a hyena or even a bat (unless there are little bats on a Halloween fabric), but there have been lots of cats and owl purses made in the past and even recently I have seen those on the Facebook Group. I personally will no longer make any purses with those animals so as to not add a burden to the volunteers there. These were the last ones I had all cut to make into purses and the girls do need them, so these will be the last ones I do with cats. 

I used whatever cat fabric I had and then added strips of fabric to it in order to make it the size needed for cutting the flap.

Upcycled denim jeans for the purse bodies.

This was such a pretty fabric that I made the entire exterior using this fabric. I rarely do plain flaps like this, but if I have enough fabric for the flap I will cut a whole fabric flap. I usually cut the body pieces of a fabric and then use scraps for creating the flap, or just make an artsy flap and find a fabric that will work well for the body.

I used whatever fabrics that I had for the lining pieces.

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