Sew Powerful Purses #26-28 for 2025

3 more purses completed for Sew Powerful. Two are selvage flaps; one with an embroidered appliqué bird patch and the other with a red shoe, and the one in the middle is scrappy pieced around a fabric that I appliquéd on. I have been wanting to use up some of those embroidered patches I have, so I thought this was the perfect project to use them on.

This is the same African print fabric that I used in the purses I showed yesterday. I was able to get 12 purse bodies out of this African print fabric to pair with different flaps that I made. I bought the fabric a few years ago just for making these purses to donate, so I am glad to finally use it for this cause.

All 3 purses have a back slip pocket too.

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Sew Powerful Purses #23-25 for 2025

I made 3 purse flaps using selvages from various fabrics. Selvages are the ultimate in scrappy sewing! They add so much interest and it's fun to read the names of the fabric line, fabric company, to see the colored dots that show the colors that were used to create that fabric print, to see a peek of the fabric print that I left on the selvages, and sometimes those colored dots aren't dots, but other fun shapes instead. I hope the girls who receive these selvage flap purses like them as much as I do.

All purses are being donated to Sew Powerful.

Selvage flaps with embroidered appliqué patches I sewed in the center of each flap.

Front pockets. Purse body fabric is an African made print I bought a few years ago online.

Back of purses with back pockets. 

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Sew Powerful Purse #15 (for 2023)

Another Happy Scrappy Flappy that I made to donate to Sew Powerful. The body of the purse is an African print fabric that was donated to me by a woman who purchased it in Texas (she lives in Texas). So that fabric came from Africa, travelled to Texas, then travelled to New Mexico and will be travelling to Georgia, along with 14 other purses I made to attend the Atlanta Quilt Show in March at the Sew Powerful Booth there. Then it will travel to Renton, WA before boarding a ship to come full circle and will eventually find a home back in Zambia, Africa where one girl will receive this purse. If only that fabric could talk! I was sent a lot of this fabric, so you will be seeing other purses that I will use it in eventually too.

Scrappy Flappy is always Happy!!!

This is the back side with a slip pocket and it's the African print fabric.

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