These are the last purses I made for this year to donate to
Sew Powerful. A
grand total of 367 purses made in 2024!!! That's just over a purse a day!!! I am pooped and tired of sewing these as I really made a lot this month, so I am switching gears and will be finishing some UFO quilts that I started a while ago. Hopefully I will get those quilts all done before starting back on the purses. But it all depends on what mood I am in and what I feel like sewing on.
Here are the last 13 purses I made for this year. I packed them up along with other purses already in the box and mailed 100 more purses to Sew Powerful on December 10th.
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| 2 selvage flap purses. |
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| 2 upcycled denim jean purses. I made these with raw edges and lots of quilting to hold the pieces together. I was experimenting with these, since piecing denim the traditional way creates such thick seams! The embroidery of the birds was from some denim scrap for cut up jeans I was given. I think I will experiment with doing the raw edge with decorative machine stitches on the flap only next time. |
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| The front pockets I made in the same raw edge/quilted way. |
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| The back pockets are also raw edge and quilted. |
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| Decorative stitches flap with added rickrack and couched yarn. I upcycled a hand dyed linen shirt that I wore a lot, but sadly had worn thin under the arms, so I turned it into a purse. Scrappy batik pieced flap on the right. |
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| Closeup of the decorative stitches and rickrack. |
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| The hand dyed shirt purse on the left. |
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| On the back I used the front pocket from the hand dyed shirt and created a back pocket that has the little pocket on top. |
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| 5 purses with appliqué stars and scraps sewn around the star blocks. |
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| The backs with pockets. |
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| 1 more selvage flap and a pieced 9-patch on point with scraps around it. |
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| Upcycled denim jeans on the right. |
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| The denim pocket from the upcycled jeans to make the right purse. |
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