Appliqué Sunflower Quilt Block Donation

I am donating this quilt block to Wrap the World With Quilts.  They are collecting Sunflower Quilt Blocks for the Ukraine Project. I donated a couple of quilt blocks over a year ago to them. I also donate quilts and quilt tops to them when I can too. I need to make more quilt blocks, tops and quilts when I can. 

12-inch finished block (12 1/2" unfinished).

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Sew Powerful Purse #418 (2025)

While this is the 418th purse I made this year (so far), for Sew Powerful Purse Project I have gifted this purse to a sweet woman I know, but have not met in person. It is on the way to her house and she should receive it on Tuesday. She had a business with a purple cat logo and an idea came to me last week to make her a purse with her cat logo on it. She volunteers each year at the Houston Quilt Show in the Sew Powerful booth. While it was too late for her to wear this purse at the show this year when she volunteers, she can use it next year and of course anytime she wants. People will see the purse on her when she volunteers there or uses the purse elsewhere and might make comments or ask questions and then she can let them know about Sew Powerful. So it could be a good advertisement for the charity. I know she doesn't make many purses herself, so she might enjoy having one. She does do a lot of other wonderful things for Sew Powerful instead of making purses.

I enlarged her logo to create the appliqué cat. I added crystals for the necklace (her logo was pink circles for the necklace). A Handmade Limited Edition label was riveted on too.

I used this cat print for the lining, which was a fabric that she had sent to me a few months ago, so she is getting a little bit of that fabric back 😄.

I added a slip pocket inside too with a purple band at the top. I included a mini composition notebook cover that I made with the mini composition notebook and placed it inside the pocket for her. I also included a second mini composition notebook for her to give to another Sew Powerful volunteer who lives in a nearby city and that she sees occasionally.

The flap and back showing here. I sewed a blue with metallic ribbon onto the webbing for an added touch. I love the flap fabric. It looks dyed or painted. some of the yardage went into a darker purple, but this section I cut had lighter colors so the cat shows up nicely.

Meow.

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Globetrot Traveler Sling~ A ChrisW Design Bag Pattern

A new fabulous pdf pattern (+ video) from Christine of ChrisW Designs, Globetrot Traveler Sling. This slim bag can be worn under clothing when traveling for added protection or over clothing for easy access to your phone, passport, money, etc.

Finished size: Approx. 18cm (7”) W X 28cm (11”) H X 1cm (3/8”) D

The pdf pattern is on SALE now. Check out the bag features, Tester photos, video intro, video tutorial and where to purchase the pattern, all right here.

Front with vertical zipper pocket and slip pocket to hold phone or other items.

Back side of bag with zipper pocket to hold small wallet or just cash, cards, etc. This side is against your body so it's contents are safe in the pocket.

Looking into the slip pocket.

Back zipper pocket opened.

I made a double sided fabric strap instead of using webbing. The instructions for the double sided fabric strap I used from another ChrisW Designs bag, the Daily Drift. I really love the double sided strap!

The Globetrot Traveler Sling was a quick and easy bag to make. It is great to use when you only want to carry a few basics. I have been using mine for a few days and love it!

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Sew Powerful Purses #414-417 (for 2025)

These are the last 4 purses that I made during the September Sew-a-thon for Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I had 3 panels of Dachshund dogs with balloons that I sewed scraps around to create the flaps.

I had this one flap of an owl with a mouse. Owls are okay to use for most of the schools, except for the rural schools that have cultural differences. I wanted to this panel though, since I had it. The volunteers in Zambia will make sure this doesn't go to a rural school. In the rural schools they do not like cats, bats, owls and hyenas, and I don't use those animals in my purses normally, so I will make sure I do not use them anymore.

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Sew Powerful Purses #410-413 (for 2025)

4 scrappy purse flaps with embossed metallic tulle over the flap and quilted. These were completed last month during the Sew-a-thon for Sew Powerful Purse Project.

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Sew Powerful Purses #404-409 (for 2025)

These 6 were all completed during the September Sew-a-thon for Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I was playing around making wonky stars and came up with these. Didn't want to make an entire quilt of them, so I set them aside in a box where I test pieced blocks out. I was going through those pieced blocks and found these and decided they would make great looking purse flaps and so they did! 😁

The burgundy and metallic gold stripe fabric was a fabric I have had for decades!!! Time to use this fabric and I made a few purses using it up at last.

2 scrappy pieced pink flaps in batik fabrics.

The pretty pink fabric for the bodies that I have used in a few other purses.

One scrappy batik fabric flap and another scrappy pink flap.

One purse in each of the fabrics I used above.

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Sew Powerful Purses #402-403 (for 2025)

2 more purses made during the Sew-a-thon for Sew Powerful Purse Project. 

I had this brown/black print for years, so decided to make several purses using it.

I sent these 3 purse flaps to a woman I know on the Sew Powerful Facebook group. She went to the retreat they had and said they exchanged flaps they made and said she wished she could have won a flap from me. So I offered to send her a flap. I sent her 3 flaps as the cost of postage was the same for just sending one and didn't increase if I sent her 3. Funny thing is she lives in the city I used to live in many years ago. If I hadn't moved, we could have met and ended up being sewing buddies. She quickly turned these into purses.

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Sew Powerful Purses #400-401 (for 2025)

2 more purses made during the Sew Powerful Sew-a-thon. The purse on the left was a sweet panel that had a white background, which was too stark and could get dirty too quickly, so a sky blue crayon to the rescue! I colored the background with the crayon and heat set it. The panel was given to me by a dear friend a few years ago. I hope a girl who loves music receives this one.

The purse flap on the right was white scraps sewn together and quilted. Then I painted background green and painted the flower on top. I like the textures from the various prints showing through the paint.

I like this pretty pink fabric and made a few other purses with it too.

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Sew Powerful Purses #396-399 (for 2025)

4 more purses finished during the September Sew-a-thon for Sew Powerful.

I used 4 cup & saucer quilt blocks that I had to create the flaps. I made the 3rd cup & saucer from the left with the yellow/orange cup and words on it. The others were from a small group I belonged to that made and exchanged quilt blocks and I don't remember who made the other 3 blocks. I didn't have enough of those blocks to make a very large quilt and wasn't sure what to do with those blocks, so I turned them all into purse flaps. I have already shared some of them in other posts earlier too. I think they made nice purse flaps.

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Sew Powerful Purses #392-395 (for 2025)

4 more purses for Sew Powerful Purse Project. These were made in September during the Sew-a-thon. I had lots of scraps of denim from the jeans I upcycled, so I thought I would make some all scrappy purses. I did machine decorative stitches over the raw edges of the jeans that were placed next to each other. I didn't want thick seams to have to sew over later, so I didn't piece in the traditional way with seams (except I did sew seams on the far right purse flap I made). Appliqué flowers were added on 3 of the flaps.

All have pockets on the front, 2 are the jean pockets and the other 2 are scrappy stitched.

The backs are all scrappy stitched together, some more scrappy than others.

Sort of a Shabby Chic look. 

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Sew Powerful Purses #386-391 (for 2025)

I got these 6 purses made during the Sew-a-thon in September. I wanted to use up the beach vacation-like fabric for the purse bodies of 5 of these purses and include some of the scraps in the flap as well. It might be fun for the girls to receive purses like this since they live in Zambia, which is land locked and have not been to the sea or on a beach or seen sailboats, etc. in person.

I also had some flower appliqués I had cut out from a tie dye tank top to use as well.

The sailboats were fun to add to 2 flaps. While you cannot see it very well, those large white buttons on each flap have an anchor design on them.

Another Starbucks apron was upcycled for this purse.

An instant pocket from the apron pocket.

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