Sew Powerful Purses #235-250 for 2026

16 purses finished to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. All African countries with animals.

Zambia is the country where the purses are donated to for the girls that are filled with monthly hygiene products, allowing the girls to stay in school all month, every month.

A couple of Kenya leopards.

4 Congo elephants.

4 Botswana zebras.

4 more Zambia giraffes. 

Please donate in my honor for the Sew-a-thon. Click here and then choose the amount to donate. $10 fills one purse to keep one girl in school. Thank you so much for your support!🤗

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Sew Powerful Purses #229-234 for 2026 + Annual Fundraiser for Sew Powerful. Can you Help?

6 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. These were made by fussy cutting the African stamp fabrics and sewing scraps and rickrack. These are 2 countries/animals of the 5 countries/animals that I am making into purses. Here are 6 purses using red fabrics to create the purses. I have more purses to share in other colors and countries/animals soon.

The annual Fundraiser started July 27 and will continue through September 30th, 2026. The entire month of September is the Sew-a-thon part, so any purses made during September counts for my Sew-a-thon goal that month only. I hope to sew 180 purses in September alone. Wish me luck! I would love it you could donate any amount that you can in my honor. $10 fills one purse with the hygiene items needed for each girl. Go here to donate in my name: https://www.sewathon.org/daryl-perry or use the QR code below:

Hugs 🤗 and thank you so much for supporting me in this effort and helping Sew Powerful to help these young girls to stay in school all month.

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Sew Powerful Purses # 158-159 for 2026

These 2 purses were made by using a small fussy cut panel (the elephants) and then I appliquéd the elephants onto a fabric square on point and hand sewed tiny rickrack around it. There are 5 African countries each with a different animal. I wanted to mimic the perforated postage stamp look of the print panel (see 2nd photo below). In order to use the country/animal, I had to cut the rickrack looking perforated part of the print or lose using most of the countries/animals. I was able to cut 81 total animals, with one elephant that I had to trim off the partially printed Congo & 7 cents because it was on the end and I could only save the elephant part. 

Here are the first 2 completed purses I finished. Others will slowly be made or I will save the kits I made to sew up in September during the Sew Powerful annual Sew-a-thon. 

This fabric was given to me by my good friend, Tara. You can see what I mean about the rickrack parts that I had to cut on them to divide the sections and if I pieced the countries/animals, it would have been lost in a seam anyhow, so I appliquéd instead and added my own rickrack to give it a similar look. Thanks Tara for the fabric! I love that Zambia is one of the African countries in this print, since the purses I make go to the girls in Zambia. The others are nice too.

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