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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