9 more purses donated to
Sew Powerful. These purses have various techniques that I used: decorative machine stiches using a circular attachment, painted flaps, appliqué flaps, upcycling, machine decorative stitches (non circular) and lots of embellishments.
These 2 purses were made with a wool (or wool blend?) suiting material. I shared one purse yesterday made with a purse body using this material too. For these purses I wanted to play with the circular attachment for making round decorative stitches. I am getting better using the attachment, but still have a lot to learn. The hardest part is knowing how to end the circle when the stitch design won't make a complete stitch to the very end. Either I stop short and there is a gap of fabric showing, or I stitch until the stitching touches, even though the stitch pattern isn't complete at that end, so it looks a bit off, which I don't care for. Sometimes I am lucky and it completes a perfect circle of stitches, but that has been rare. So embellishments to the rescue! 😂Adding a button or little stitched embroidered flower adds a nice touch, but also hides those wonky joins! 😉 I also just stitched partial circles which looks nice and takes care of that situation too. I found that with some stitches that are going in a circle, the material didn't want to move as easily, so stitches weren't formed perfectly either. I told you there is a lot to learn still. Perhaps some fabrics work better? I did have the material interfaced on the back. Still overall I do love how these flaps turned out and I like the material a lot! Wish I had more of the gray fabric and knew exactly what is was? It washed and dried beautifully, has a great feel to it as well.
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| Notecards to the girls in the front pocket. |
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| On the back side I added pockets and I had already stitched a bit more on the piece I had cut for the flap, so I added it as a pocket on the back with the stitching. |
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| 5 decorative stitched corduroy flaps, with added rickrack, couched yarn & buttons too. |
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| Cards in the front pockets for each girl. |
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| Back pockets. |
Two painted canvas flaps with added appliqué on top. The left purse appliqué is from a rainbow tie dye tank top that I have been cutting appliqué shapes out of and the purse on the right is a batik fabric butterfly.
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