Sew Powerful Purses #90-91 (2025)

Several years ago I made about a dozen little appliqué houses that I was going to make into a wall quilt. I didn't quite finish all the houses, but I found them and decided to finish adding the embroidery on the ones that needed it and then instead of making the houses into a quilt, I started making them into purses to donate to Sew Powerful instead. I got all the flaps made and completed these 2 purses. I will be cutting out fabric to complete the rest of them soon.

I first stitched the house block onto a square set on point and then sewed batik scraps around it until I had the purse flap size I needed. I knew the houses would look better with scraps angled around it. I upcycled some black denim jeans for the purse bodies for these 2 purses. 

Little buttons are the doorknobs.

Front pockets from the jeans give an extra pocket in the front.

Instant pockets using the back pockets from the jeans.

Pin It Now!

I Love Home Block One

I signed up to make the I Love Home Block-of-the-Month, designed by Jaquelynne Steves. This is a free BOM as long as you sign up for it. I finally got around to finishing this August block and just in time before the September one comes out. I just love it! I added some of my own details and used batik fabric scraps. This BOM will be 4 different house blocks. I think I am going to make each one a separate quilt.

I used green rickrack for the flower stems and double stacked buttons for the flower centers, which I love to do. I also used different stitches around each flower.

I had played around with the settings first before I sewed the final sections together. But Jacquelynne's setting of the triangles and 3 color strips was the best. Here are some photos showing different placements:

I turned the corner triangle squares the other way with the pink toward the inside and the white to the outside corners to see how this would look. It gives the block an octagonal look.

On this one I kept the triangles as the above block, but flipped the triple strips on the sides and top and bottom.

On this one I just kept the setting above, but flipped the corner triangles back to the white going toward the center. 

In the end I thought the green strip around the house looked better than the purple and the white triangles in toward the middle looked better too.
Pin It Now!

House Quilt Block

This quilt block was made for a guild member. Several of us made a friendship block to give to her. Pin It Now!