Sew Powerful Purses #124-132 for 2026

Nine more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. More African women prints and upcycled denim jean scrappy purses.

I made 3 more of these. I had shared a few of these this month and had these 3 to also finish.

I am trying to use up my scraps of denim leftovers from making purses from denim jeans. The entire purse was made with the denim scraps: the flap, front, back and gusset too. I added rickrack, couched yarn and buttons on the flaps only.

3 more scrappy denim purses. I still have more scraps denim to make several more purses.

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Sew Powerful Purses #119-123 for 2026

I upcycled denim jean scraps to make these purses. I covered the denim scraps with tulle and quilted each piece to hold it all together. On the flaps I added yarn couching, rickrack, buttons and some French knots on the rickrack. The front, back, pocket and gusset pieces were just scrappy denim covered in tulle and quilted. I made quite a few purses using just denim scraps. The purses are quite sturdy. Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Good way to use scraps of denim, and yarn scraps too!

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Sew Powerful Purses #392-395 (for 2025)

4 more purses for Sew Powerful Purse Project. These were made in September during the Sew-a-thon. I had lots of scraps of denim from the jeans I upcycled, so I thought I would make some all scrappy purses. I did machine decorative stitches over the raw edges of the jeans that were placed next to each other. I didn't want thick seams to have to sew over later, so I didn't piece in the traditional way with seams (except I did sew seams on the far right purse flap I made). Appliqué flowers were added on 3 of the flaps.

All have pockets on the front, 2 are the jean pockets and the other 2 are scrappy stitched.

The backs are all scrappy stitched together, some more scrappy than others.

Sort of a Shabby Chic look. 

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