Sew Powerful Purses #352-353 (for 2025)

2 purses made with fabric selvages for the flaps.

I made these for the Sew Powerful Sew-a-thon and fundraiser.

Still fundraising through the 30th of September, so if you would like to help fill these purses with hygiene items for the girls in Zambia, it cost $10 per bag. Please go HERE to make a donation in my honor by September 30th until midnight Pacific time. Thank you so much! 

Fun bright fabrics.

Had to make one back scrappy as that was the last piece of the exterior fabric I had left, other than tiny pieces. I rather like that scrappy back.😁

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Sew Powerful Purses #342-344 (for 2025)

3 more purses for Sew Powerful Purse Project Sew-a-thon (and fundraiser). Still fundraising through the 30th of September, so if you would like to help fill these purses with hygiene items for the girls in Zambia, it cost $10 per bag. Please go HERE to make a donation in my honor by September 30th until midnight Pacific time. Thank you!

3 different scrappy flaps.

Scrappy back of one purse. I like doing some scrappy backs too.

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Sew Powerful Purses #330-335 (for 2025)

6 purses finished for Sew Powerful and the Sew-a-thon. 

These are super scrappy flaps with tiny scraps and covered in a gold embossed tulle and quilted.

The purse fronts.

Bee theme scraps and an appliqué house flap.

2 selvage flaps.

Purse fronts.

Won't you please consider a donation to fill these purses and more with the monthly hygiene items the girls in Zambia need to help them to stay in school all year? It takes $10 to fill one purse with these items. You can donate anonymously if you want to as well.

Please go HERE to make a donation in my honor by September 30th until midnight Pacific time.

Thank you for your support, it means a lot to the sweet girls who receive these purses with the hygiene items inside.

Sharing this post would really help too! If I don't ask for donations then Sew Powerful won't receive any donations to help the girls, so I just have to ask, which isn't easy.

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Sew Powerful Purses #322-326 (for 2025)

Another 5 purses sewn. All kinds of happy scrappiness.

A long time ago I experimented with making tiny pieced Friendship Stars. Sewing this tiny is harder than sewing larger quilt blocks. I had no idea what to do with them back then. I find things I put away from time to time and came across the stars and knew they needed to be on purse flaps, of course! They sure look good on purse flaps and I hope the 2 girls who receive these purses will love them. The purse bodies are upcycled denim jeans.

All scrappy flaps here.

The fronts of the 3 purses.

And the backs of the purses are also scrappy! I just didn't have enough left of any of the fabrics to create the back sides, so I had to piece together scraps of whatever I thought would work. I kind of like having a scrappy back as well.

Won't you please consider a donation to fill these purses and more with the monthly hygiene items the girls in Zambia need to help them to stay in school all year? It takes $10 to fill one purse with these items. You can donate anonymously if you want to as well.

Please go HERE to make a donation in my honor by September 30th until midnight Pacific time.

Thank you for your support, it means a lot to the sweet girls who receive these purses with the hygiene items inside.

Sharing this post would really help too! If I don't ask for donations then Sew Powerful won't receive any donations to help the girls, so I just have to ask.

Hugs!!!

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Sew Powerful Purses #151-152 (2025)

2 more selvage purse flaps paired with upcycled denim blue jeans for the purse bodies. These were donated to Sew Powerful Purse Project. I upcycled both the selvage fabric edges as well as using denim jeans that I upcycled into the purse bodies. Waste not want not 😄. I hope the girls who receive these enjoy them. I really wanted to use up the denim jeans and selvages that I had on hand and this is a great project for using them both!

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Sew Powerful Purses #26-28 for 2025

3 more purses completed for Sew Powerful. Two are selvage flaps; one with an embroidered appliqué bird patch and the other with a red shoe, and the one in the middle is scrappy pieced around a fabric that I appliquéd on. I have been wanting to use up some of those embroidered patches I have, so I thought this was the perfect project to use them on.

This is the same African print fabric that I used in the purses I showed yesterday. I was able to get 12 purse bodies out of this African print fabric to pair with different flaps that I made. I bought the fabric a few years ago just for making these purses to donate, so I am glad to finally use it for this cause.

All 3 purses have a back slip pocket too.

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Sew Powerful Purses #23-25 for 2025

I made 3 purse flaps using selvages from various fabrics. Selvages are the ultimate in scrappy sewing! They add so much interest and it's fun to read the names of the fabric line, fabric company, to see the colored dots that show the colors that were used to create that fabric print, to see a peek of the fabric print that I left on the selvages, and sometimes those colored dots aren't dots, but other fun shapes instead. I hope the girls who receive these selvage flap purses like them as much as I do.

All purses are being donated to Sew Powerful.

Selvage flaps with embroidered appliqué patches I sewed in the center of each flap.

Front pockets. Purse body fabric is an African made print I bought a few years ago online.

Back of purses with back pockets. 

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