Sew Powerful Purses #183-185 for 2026

3 more purses finished to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Patchwork flap using leftovers from a tote bag I made years ago. I made the strap for this purse.

A cute dog lining flap. Thanks Tara for the dog fabric!

Scrappy pieced flap.

Scrappy pieced flap with a flower appliqué added. I made a matching strap too.

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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 # 133-137 for 2026

5 purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I used a 1-inch printed grid to sew the patchwork, which ended up 3/8" square using a full 1/4" seam allowance. Had I used a scant seam allowance these squares would have been 1/2" square. Since I used it as a heart appliqué, the square size didn't matter, but good to keep in mind if I had wanted it a certain size as part of a patchwork block.

Pieced flap with added appliqué flower.

Another pieced flap with added appliqué flower.

Pieced flap with added appliqué flower and a butterfly button.

Pieced flap with added fussy cut flower that I appliquéd.

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Sew Powerful Purses #498-499 for 2025

2 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Texture painted flap background with appliqué flower. 

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Sew Powerful Purses #477-479 for 2025

3 more purses with scrappy flaps and flower appliqués. Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Vinyl flap lining and some more of the fabric that my mom had given me several years ago. I had cut the rest of that fabric to make purses to donate. Purse below this has this purse body fabric too.

Pieced webbing scraps to create a long enough strap. Covered joins with ribbon.

The flower is an old rainbow dyed tank top I hadn't worn in years, so I cut up tons of flowers for appliqué and have been adding them to purses. Some of the flowers show one color of the dyed tank top, but I love when I can get a bit more of the rainbow colors in a flower, like this one.

This is a fabric I had for years, so I cut the rest for purses too.

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Sew Powerful Purses #465-468 for 2025

4 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I used a die cut flower and die cut circle to make this appliqué flower, along with decorative machine stitches.

These 2 are super scrappy flaps using the tiniest pieces of fabrics, covered in tulle and quilted. Added jumbo rickrack and small pieces of a ribbon (the teacup & laugh were cut from ribbons), and a few buttons.

Stenciled flap with texture painted background.

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Sew Powerful Purses # 431-433 for 2025

3 more purses made for Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I LOVE sunflowers, so I added a large one onto this scrappy pieced purse flap.

This fabric has an atomic, retro look to it.

Felt appliqué flower for this purse flap. I found some bag straps I had made and never used, or didn't like the bag and kept the strap, so I used this strap for this purse. It was just 2 pieces that I sewed into the gusset and then tied together into a bow.

Here is the strap stretched out.

The tied bow of the strap. The fabric I hand dyed ions ago.

Appliqué heart on this scrappy flap.

More of that striped print I am using to make these purses.

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Sew Powerful Purses #230-232 (2024)

Some more purses finished to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. Each has a different style flap.

This purse flap is done with raw edge scraps and heavily quilted. Added button sewn on with little flowers. 

The body of the purse is corduroy, which makes a nice purse.

Added pocket on the back side.

I found an old quilt block I made from maybe 2 decades ago? Geesh, where does the time go? I sewed fabric strips around the flap to make it the correct size and the flap was done.

Hot pink fabric for the purse body.

Back of purse with added slip pocket.

This purse flap was a flap I had painted, but it still needed something more, so I cut a quarter Hawaiian quilt block flower out of an old tie dyed tank top and appliquéd the flower in the corner and added stacked buttons. It still looked unbalanced, so some rickrack, narrow couched yarn, decorative machine stitches, hand stitched French knots and a few more buttons to the rescue.

I used upcycled denim jeans for the body of this purse.

The back has a jean pocket with some appliqué hexagons I already had cut out.

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