Sew Powerful Purse #95-98 for 2026

Four more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Scrappy pieced with a fussy cut heart appliquéd to center.

Another flap like the 2 above, but with a flower instead of a heart in the center.

Zentangle flap. I drew the Zentangle over a fabric that I colored first. I did this Zentangle so long ago, before turning in it into a purse flap, that I do not recall if I used paint or crayons to color the white fabric? Being the color is light, I would guess it was crayon, which makes me want to experiment with more crayon on flaps now 😄. It has also been a long time since I did any Zentangles on fabric, so I might be playing with those again too.

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Sew Powerful Purses #91-94 for 2026

Four scrappy pieced fabric purse flaps. One has appliqué added over the piecing. Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Batik fabrics scraps on both flaps.

The purse flap on the right was neutral fabrics pieced together and then I added the appliqué leaves and butterfly I fussy cut from a fabric, using Mod Podge fabric formula. 

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Sew Powerful Purses #88-90 for 2026

Sunflower flaps for 3 purses. Two flaps are scrappy pieced with the sunflower appliqués and one has a painted texture background with a sunflower appliqué. I do love sunflowers!!!

Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I added some crystals all around the sunflower petals on this one.

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Sew Powerful Purse #85-87 for 2026

3 Scrappy pieced flaps with flower appliqué from that rainbow tank top I have been upcycling to make flower appliqués for the purse flaps. All flowers were die cut. All have the same orange and red Japanese print fabric for the body of the purses.

Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Perfect purse for Spring and Saint Patrick's Day with all the green prints.

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Sew Powerful Purses #83-84 for 2026

I rarely use a fabric for a flap as is, because I love to piece, appliqué, paint, use decorative machine stitches, stencil and more for the flaps I make, but I thought I would make 2 purses with this print as it was so pretty. I had several other panels that were different on this same panel yardage that I decided to use for flap linings. The fabric has a silky feel and is a bit shiny.

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Sew Powerful Purse #82 for 2026

Texture painted background with added appliqué hearts and a fussy cut dress form from fabric I appliquéd too. Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.  

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Sew Powerful Purses #77-81 for 2026

Five more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. These 5 flaps were made using fabric scraps of honeybee fabrics that a friend donated to me. I was able to get quite a lot of purse flaps out of all those scraps. I paired all of these flaps with a fabric of pinecones and holly leaves on a brown background for the purse bodies. 

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Red String Blocks for Rainbow Scrap Quilt Challenge 2026

The color for March for the Scrap Quilt Challenge is RED. I did have quite a few red scraps, so I made 12 string blocks. Since I have no idea how many total blocks I need, or what size quilt I will make, or the layout I will choose, I may need to make more blocks later in one or more colors. For now, I thought I would make whatever I feel like and figure it out later. Not sure how many colors we will have? Is it 12 colors (one for each month) or fewer colors? I guess I will just continue playing along and find out later; by then I will have more scraps in every color if I need to make some more blocks. I am having fun and using up scraps, which is always a good thing.

I love how the blocks look after they are all trimmed up.

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Sew Powerful Purses #75-76 for 2026

Several years ago I bought a pretty print of fabric thinking it would make a great One Block Wonder Quilt. I cut it all up and sewed the blocks and then made the quilt top, but it was rather too small for anything other than a wall quilt and I really didn't want or need a wall quilt. I should have purchased more yardage, but I didn't know how much to buy and how large the quilt would be. Adding a border to make it larger, I would need make a border or borders that would be as large as the quilt itself and that would be no good. So it went into the UFO box to marinate until I decided what to do. After organizing recently, I came across it and decided I would take apart all the blocks I had and make purse flaps for the Sew Powerful Purses that I make to donate. I would find pleasing fabrics for the purse bodies to go with the flaps I made and eventually turn them into completed purses as I found the right fabrics for the rest of the purses. I got these 2 purses completed and they turned out really nice and much better than a quilt, as you can really see the one block on each purse. I set the blocks on point and added a few small scraps to make it larger enough for the flaps. I love how colorful and interesting these flaps look.

One Block Wonder quilt blocks end up looking all different after sewing them into a block. You stack and cut 6 layers of fabric into equilateral triangles. Each stack has six fabrics all the same cut for each block, but each fabric stack is different from all the other cut stacks. So when they are sewn into hexagons, they form a kaleidoscope looking quilt block, all cut from a different section of the fabric print.

These are the first 2 finished purses I made. I have over a dozen more flaps, so I will get to cutting fabric for the purse bodies and sewing them eventually into finished purses too.

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Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) 2026~ Top Finished

My 2026 SAHRR top is done. I need to quilt it, but that will take some time to do and I need to think about how I will quilt it.  This top measures 34.5" wide x 41.5" high. I didn't want to make a huge quilt as I have difficulty quilting large quilts on my sewing machine, so I kept this one small, which can be used for a baby quilt, a wall or small lap quilt.

The last Prompt (#6) Anja (of Anja Quilts) told us it was Quilter's Choice, so yay! I was hoping I could add the lettering, along with something else, so I used dies to cut the letters and made simple squares between the Ukraine flags. I had 2 different fonts and sizes of letters. I am happy with how this came out.

 The Linky Party on Anja's blog already ended, so I couldn't add my link to share there 😢. I kept forgetting to take photos, plus it had been windy here, so I finally got these photos taken yesterday. I guess I will have to wait to share it on Gail's blog later this month.

Slava Ukraini at the top means Glory to Ukraine, hence that wording at the bottom.

The tie dye I used as background looks like bursts of sunflowers or fireworks.

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Sew Powerful Purses #73-74 for 2026

I made several of these baby zebras and other baby animals on flaps a few months ago. I finished these recently. I found some giraffe fabric print in my fabrics for the purse bodies of these 2 purses. Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

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Sew Powerful Purses #71-72 for 2026

Scrappy pieced flap and a Zentangle flap. Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Scrappy pieced flap.

Zentangle heart with texture painted background.

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Sew Powerful Purses #69-70 for 2026

2 purses for Sew Powerful Purse Project that I used African woman canvas prints for the flaps. I had to trim off the bottom of each print to fit it to the flap size. I used a Japanese print fabric in orange and red with black Kanji writing on it. Africa meets Japan in these purses. The Japanese print was such a good color match to these flaps.

I wanted to show the entire flap here. Since I had to cut of the bottom of the print in order to not cut of her head when the flap folds to the back, I added a strip of green print to make the flap the correct height, but you cannot see that green when the flap is folded back, so now you can see it.

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Sew Powerful Purses #64-68 for 2026

5 more purses completed to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Scrappy pieced rectangles.

This was a Spiderweb quilt block I had that I turned into a purse flap.

Another heart finished for the February challenge at the Sew Powerful Facebook group.

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Sew Powerful Purses #61-63 for 2026

 I made these teapot appliqués years and years ago. Wanted to make a table topper with them, but my layouts just never worked quite right. So when I found these again, I decided they needed to become purse flaps. I had hand blanket stitched around them all those years ago because that was probably when I didn't have a sewing machine that did blanket stitches. So I added some scraps to make the flap the correct size and finished these 3 teapot flap purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Happy tea drinking and/or sewing!

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Sew Powerful Purses #58-60 for 2026

3 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. The flaps were all made using prints of African women that were meant for framing. Since they are a canvas and similar to vinyl, but stiffer, I wanted to use them for purse flaps. I had to cut the bottom part of each print off to fit the size of the flap, but also since part of the top of the flap is on the back side of the purse when used, I had to cut off the right amount so the head could be seen on the front, which was a bit tricky to get it right.

I had purchased several prints a couple of years ago and forgot about them. When I found them all recently, I started to finish them into flaps for the purses. Most of the prints, I bought one of each, except the two down below I bought 2 of the same print.

I tried to cut off just enough of this print so her head would still show. In doing so, the rest of the dress at the bottom had to be cut off. I could have cut more off the bottom, but it was hard to know this beforehand. This print was narrower than most and so I added fabric strips to the sides to make it wide enough.

These 2 were the same print, but when I cut off the excess from the bottom so it would fit the flap, I cut one slightly higher than the other. You can see more of the women's hand on the right one.

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