Sew Powerful Purse #111 for 2026

An apple appliqué on scrappy blues. Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project. 

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Sew Powerful Purses #106-110 for 2026

5 more purses finished. Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project. These were all made using denim jean scraps leftover from making upcycled denim jean purses. I placed a black tulle over the denim scraps and quilted it to hold it together and cut out the various purse pieces needed to make the purse. I added appliqué on the flaps and stitched with a blanket stitch around each appliqué piece. The second purse was stitched with decorative stitches without tulle on the flap, but all purse pieces do have the tulle overlay.

Decorative stitches and no tulle overlay on the flap.

This was a fabric postcard I made many years ago, so I decided to add it to this flap.

Hope is a die cut. 

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Feather & Fan Handknit Scarf

I knit this scarf with yarn that I hand dyed years ago. My favorite scarf to wear is a Feather and Fan scarf in a worsted weight yarn, so I wanted to knit another scarf and this scarf was knit with Fingering weight yarn. I love this stitch pattern with the waves. It's an easy to knit pattern too. I hand dyed this yarn many years ago.

Closeup.

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Stay at Home Round Robin Quilt (SAHRR) 2026

My SAHRR quilt is finished! Quilted and binding done. I will be donating this quilt to Ukraine via Wrap the World With Quilts. The quilt measures 34.5" x 40.5"

I backed the quilt with the purple and orange floral fabric that is a flannel fabric and added this label that started off as a quilt block for the front, but it was too large and didn't work, so I made the smaller Friendship Stars on the front instead and saved this block to use as a label.

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Sew Powerful Purses #100-105 for 2026

Six flaps finished to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Just a pretty fabric used for the flap. I love that bird and the flowers.

Baby zebra mini panel with scraps sewn around to make it the correct flap size.

Painted texture background with appliqué flower.

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Sew Powerful Purse #99 for 2026

This purse was a combined effort of Donna WM & myself. Donna made the purse flap and sent it to me and I sent her a purse flap that I made. Donna finished the purse using the flap I made and I finished the purse using the flap that she made. So I am counting this as one purse, since I made the purse body and the flap for hers and together that equals one purse.

Donna made the flap and I used a polka dot vinyl to make the purse body & strap. The vinyl matches well with the lining she used below.

Donna used this lining fabric for the flap lining and it reminded me of the polka dot vinyl I had, so I decided to use that vinyl for the purse body.

I made the patchwork flap and Donna completed the rest of the purse.

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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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