Sew Powerful Purses #233-237 (2025)

The last 5 purses I have sewn for now. More Debbie Mumm prints, selvages and scraps. 

I am busy now cutting out purse kits for September's Sew-a-thon and fundraising through September 30th as well. It takes $10 to fill each purse with the needed hygiene items that go into the purses. See the links below.

My personal goal is to sew 80 purses in September and raise $800 in which to fill each purse. Please help me to reach the dollar goal. Thank you so much on behalf of the girls! If they receive a purse filled with the monthly hygiene items, then they can stay in school every month and not miss days.

You can go to this link to donate. 

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Sew Powerful Purses #228-232 (2025)

5 more purse with Debbie Mumm prints, selvages and scrappy fabric piecing. Donating these to Sew Powerful Purse Project. 

The annual Sew-a-thon starts in September, but these were purses that I had already made.

2025 annual fundraiser is now through September 30th. Please help me to support this wonderful charity to keep girls in school all month long by donating to Sew Powerful so we can fill the purses us volunteers make for the girls, with the needed hygiene items so the girls won't miss any school. Go here to donate on my behalf.  Or click the code below with your phone to take you there. Thank you!!!

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Sew Powerful Purses #223-227 (2025)

5 more purses using Debbie Mumm prints. Two with scrappy fabrics and 3 with selvages.

Sew Powerful Purse Project annual fundraiser is happening now through September 30th. The Sew-a-thon is for the entire month of September. Please consider making a donation to pay for the needed hygiene items that go into each purse for the girls, so they can continue staying in school all month in order to get an education. Thank you!

Scan this code to take you to the page to donate to Sew Powerful on my behalf. Thank you so much! 

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Sew Powerful Purses #200-201 (2025)

2 more purses for Sew Powerful Purse Project. 

Debbie Mumm print in center with selvages sewn all around.

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Sew Powerful Purses #188-189 (2025)

2 Scrappy purse flaps with a Debbie Mumm print in the center. I must have had this Debbie Mumm print for 20 years or probably more? The print had all kinds of little things on it like a variety of girls, and sunflowers, schoolhouses, watermelon and more. So I just fused some fusible web onto the back side and fussy cut out all the various motifs and started using them for the centers of both scrappy fabric purse flaps as well as scrappy selvage flaps and sewed all around the motifs. There were quite a lot of flaps I made from the Debbie Mumm print, so you will (and already have) seen some of them, but there are more to come. So glad I used that print up in making these purses to donate to the girls in Zambia so they can stay in school all year. Such a great feeling to give them purses and to use up fabric I have had a long time or quilt blocks I never used before making them into purse flaps as well. This is such a great project for using all the scraps leftover from making the purse bodies and adding them various flaps also. 

Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I started these by cutting the purple fabric with stars and setting it on point and fusing the Debbie Mumm prints and stitching them in place and then sewing scraps of fabrics all around. 

The exterior fabric and the lining fabric were donated to me. 

Back added pockets.

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Sew Powerful Purses #135-139 (2024)

5 more purses finished for Sew Powerful Purse Project. A variety of flaps here, from appliqué to scrappy pieced to selvages, to upcycled denim jeans. 

A Garden Angel, named Greta. This was from a Debbie Mumm print I have had for ages! So I cut out all the motifs in the print to use to make more purses in the future. This one I finished, but I will be making dozens more using the various parts of this print. It worked best to appliqué the cut out print, since the designs were scattered all over the fabric and not in a straight line at all. Sometimes I wonder why they design fabric like that? How do most people use it? As a whole piece of fabric? It just seems to call out it wants to be cut apart from the rest and used differently. Some of the designs in this print overlapped very close together, so it was tricky to cut them out. I cut a lot by cutting in a sort of wavy cut. I think this one made a cute flap. All the females in this print were Caucasian. I wish designers used more variety of ethnicities in their designs. 

Back of purse I added a slip pocket.

Scrappy pieced flap with added appliqué.

Back with slip pocket.

Side view showing rivet and decorative stitched strap.

Upcycled denim jeans flap and purse body too.

Back (no pocket) that is raw edge pieced and quilted.

Selvage flap.

Blue & white plaid purse body. Here is the back with the pocket. I even made the plaid straps to match. One school in Zambia has uniforms in this color plaid. The other schools wear different colored uniforms.

Another selvage flap.

Another blue & white plaid body with a back slip pocket.

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