Sew Powerful Purses #376-385 (for 2025)

10 purses made during the September Sew-a-thon for Sew Powerful Purse Project. I bought a quilt pattern at a quilt show over a year ago and used just the wool appliqué flowers and hand embroidery part of the pattern to make these 9 flaps. I added strips of fabrics around the handstitched sections to make the flap to the correct size. These took time to make, but I enjoy hand stitching, so I didn't mind. I also made one Southwest bear appliqué flap using the same blue exterior body fabric as the rest.

Some of the quilt blocks had little flowerpots, which you could buy little flowerpot buttons for extra if you wanted to add them. I decided to use some scraps of cork material for the flowerpots instead.

The flowerpot on the center purse I used a wooden thimble shaped button for the flowerpot. This is what I wanted to use for them all, and I thought I had several thimble buttons, but I only had one. The button came in a variety package of other sewing related themed buttons. The other button shapes I got 2-3 of each button, but only one thimble in the package. I couldn't find find any affordable thimble shaped buttons anywhere online, so chose to use the flowerpot template and cork to make the rest. The place that sold the pattern had flowerpot buttons, but the shipping would have cost me more than the buttons and the button were already quite pricey for such tiny buttons.

Southwest bear fetish flap.

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