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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Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) 2026~ Top Finished

My 2026 SAHRR top is done. I need to quilt it, but that will take some time to do and I need to think about how I will quilt it.  This top measures 34.5" wide x 41.5" high. I didn't want to make a huge quilt as I have difficulty quilting large quilts on my sewing machine, so I kept this one small, which can be used for a baby quilt, a wall or small lap quilt.

The last Prompt (#6) Anja (of Anja Quilts) told us it was Quilter's Choice, so yay! I was hoping I could add the lettering, along with something else, so I used dies to cut the letters and made simple squares between the Ukraine flags. I had 2 different fonts and sizes of letters. I am happy with how this came out.

 The Linky Party on Anja's blog already ended, so I couldn't add my link to share there 😢. I kept forgetting to take photos, plus it had been windy here, so I finally got these photos taken yesterday. I guess I will have to wait to share it on Gail's blog later this month.

Slava Ukraini at the top means Glory to Ukraine, hence that wording at the bottom.

The tie dye I used as background looks like bursts of sunflowers or fireworks.

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Stay at Home Round Robin 2026 (SAHRR) Prompt 4

First, let me mention that I did visit most of the blogs that posted their SAHRR's, but when I clicked on several links through Linky, it didn't take me to their blog, but to my own email! Huh? This happened more than a few times, so that was weird. On several photos on the Linky, I could only see your progress on the Linky thumbnail pic only. There are also so many blogs I am unable to comment on and many that comment on my blog that I cannot comment back as you are a no-reply and no email comes up with your comment. I am looking, reading and admiring all your work, but there are strange forces at work that won't let me see your blog or make a comment though 😕.

The Prompt for this time was from Wendy of Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life, and she chose CURVES. Pieced curves, appliqué curves, curves in a fabric print, etc.  Appliqué is what I most love doing, so I made a couple of tall sunflower appliqué blocks for the sides of this SAHRR. I added a little black bird on each one too. I wanted one of the sunflowers to overlap the previous side blocks, so I did that too. This is the round I am most pleased with! I also wanted to bring back the sunflower theme that I started this SAHHR with in the center. 

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Sew Powerful Purses #421-422 for 2025

2 more Sew Powerful purses for a couple of Zambian girls. 

I love adding flower appliqué to purse flaps and especially a sunflower, one of my favorite flowers. 

I had some scraps of this exterior fabric leftover and created the scrappy flap above, using some of the fabric scraps before adding the sunflower appliqué to the flap.

This flap is an X-Block Star quilt block and I added fabric strips around it to make it large enough for the flap. It was a leftover block from a table runner I had made about a year ago.

I had a fat quarter of this print for the exterior and the other purse exterior too. I can make one purse exterior out of a fat quarter, so time to use up some fat quarters that were hanging around for too long.

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Appliqué Sunflower Quilt Block Donation

I am donating this quilt block to Wrap the World With Quilts.  They are collecting Sunflower Quilt Blocks for the Ukraine Project. I donated a couple of quilt blocks over a year ago to them. I also donate quilts and quilt tops to them when I can too. I need to make more quilt blocks, tops and quilts when I can. 

12-inch finished block (12 1/2" unfinished).

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