Sew Powerful Purse #180 for 2025

I made this purse for last month's June Bee Challenge in the Facebook group for Sew Powerful Purse Project. I saw the bee made out of buttons on Pinterest, so I tried it, but I used a piece of embroidered trim for the wings. I made a few purses with the bee button and a partial Dresden Plate quilt block like this one.

Bee button and other buttons I sewed little flowers on to hold them in place.

This pretty exterior fabric was donated to me. I pieced webbing scraps together

with ribbon to cover the joins in order to make a longer strap.

No pockets on this purse on the back or the front. Next month a new pattern comes out without pockets added on. I think they meant to announce it later, but it got mentioned. So this was the first one I tried without pockets and it was much quicker to sew, which was the idea behind the no pocket version. Also, September is the annual Sew-a-thon Fundraiser for Sew Powerful and I think they wanted to come up with ways to make sewing the purses faster so they would receive more purses. We can still make any version we want to make and the 3 flaps are still interchangeable too. I can tell you it is so much easier and faster not to add the pockets, so I will be making more this way for sure. Plus, it saves on fabric and interfacing and that means less cost as well. Yay!

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