Sew Powerful Purses 141-142 for 2026

2 purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project that I made from one red Starbucks apron! One apron pocket had black stains from a Sharpie marker, so I fused embroidered flowers and a heart over the stains to cover the stains and add a bit of bling at the same time.

The flaps are both made using the leftover scraps from cutting the purse body pieces. I covered the flap in tulle and quilted it and then added the rickrack and yarn couching and buttons.

The Starbucks logo I used for the flap lining. I had to piece a couple of pieces of the red apron, so added some rickrack over the seams for additional bling. The embroidered flowers and heart are covering up the Sharpie stains on the apron pocket. The apron pocket became the front pocket without having to sew a separate pocket on top, which made the sewing and cutting a bit faster to do.

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Sew Powerful Purses #74-75 for 2025

One more upcycled Starbucks apron turned into 2 purses to donate to Sew Powerful. Daughter had one more apron to give to me, so I made these. I used a 4-Patch Posey block I had made a long time ago for the flap on the left, along with additional scraps sewn to make the flap the correct size. The flap on the right has the Siren Starbucks logo and I couched yarn in a wavy grid onto the flap.

I had a yarn that had pompoms throughout the yarn, so I used that yarn to couch around the round Siren Starbucks logo embroidery. You can see the 3 pompoms around the circle. 

I used the same lining for these purses. I got an ink stamp made with my first name added and stamped it on a scrap of fabric to create the label. I finally ran out of the You Look Beautiful labels that I ordered a 1,000 of years ago. I still have those labels sewn on some lining flaps that haven't been finished into purses yet, so you will still see those labels for awhile along with these stamped ones too. I also pieced the apron neck straps together, along with some leftover pieces of neck straps from the last Starbucks aprons I made into purses, in order to create one purse strap. The other strap is pieced together webbing scraps.

Apron pockets became the purse backs with pockets. I added a fussy cut strawberries fabric appliqué

 the the left pocket to cover up an ink stain. Apparently my daughter had her pen in the pocket at one time and it leaked ink 😜.

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Sew Powerful Purses #48-54 (2025) Made from Starbucks Aprons

These 7 purses that I am donating to Sew Powerful were made upcycling 4 Starbucks aprons. My daughter works at Starbucks and when she got new aprons she was getting rid of these, and of course I thought Purses! She had 3 red and 1 green apron and I was able to get 8 total purses out of the 4 aprons. I had already posted one green purse body with an appliqué flower on the flap using the green apron here. Thanks sweet daughter! 8 girls will benefit from me making 8 purses for them to stay in school all year. Yay!

I got 4 purses with the Starbucks logo for flaps and had to make 4 more more total flaps (the one I mentioned above in green) and the 3 raw edge quilted flaps further down below. The aprons all have 2 front pockets and I used one of the apron pockets (plus a bit more fabric around the pocket) for each of the total 8 backs with the aprons pocket still attached, so no need to make a pocket, yay! I also pieced together enough of the apron neck straps to create 2 purse straps and I used webbing for the other purse straps.

 The Starbucks logo is a two-tailed siren, which is inspired by the Greek myth of the Sirens, who lured sailors to their deaths with enchanting songs, and represent the company's connection to the sea and Seattle, where it originated. Nice, huh? 😬

The logo was up high on the apron, so I couldn't bring it down more. I wanted to add embellishments on the flap so it looked more appealing and so I used rickrack, lace, buttons, crystals, machine blanket stitches and some French knots.

The back of the purses show the apron front pockets.

Closer look at the apron pocket on the back.

I had to create flaps to go with the remainder of the apron fabric that I used for these purse bodies, so I added raw edge scraps and quilted them. I added embellishments of buttons & couched yarn.

Closer look.

Another purse closeup.

3rd purse closeup.

These all had the apron pockets I used on the backs too.

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