Sew Powerful Purses #74-75 for 2025

One more upcycled Starbucks apron turned into 2 purses to donate to Sew Powerful. Daughter had one more apron to give to me, so I made these. I used a 4-Patch Posey block I had made a long time ago for the flap on the left, along with additional scraps sewn to make the flap the correct size. The flap on the right has the Siren Starbucks logo and I couched yarn in a wavy grid onto the flap.

I had a yarn that had pompoms throughout the yarn, so I used that yarn to couch around the round Siren Starbucks logo embroidery. You can see the 3 pompoms around the circle. 

I used the same lining for these purses. I got an ink stamp made with my first name added and stamped it on a scrap of fabric to create the label. I finally ran out of the You Look Beautiful labels that I ordered a 1,000 of years ago. I still have those labels sewn on some lining flaps that haven't been finished into purses yet, so you will still see those labels for awhile along with these stamped ones too. I also pieced the apron neck straps together, along with some leftover pieces of neck straps from the last Starbucks aprons I made into purses, in order to create one purse strap. The other strap is pieced together webbing scraps.

Apron pockets became the purse backs with pockets. I added a fussy cut strawberries fabric appliqué

 the the left pocket to cover up an ink stain. Apparently my daughter had her pen in the pocket at one time and it leaked ink 😜.

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