Sew Powerful Purse #143 (2024)

I made this purse with a stencil of an African woman. It is not the first one I made like this with a stencil, but I cannot find the first one 😜so it must be buried deep in one of the bags of kits I made. I did stencil several flaps with this stencil and some others stencils too.

The background I used the cut off end of a head of lettuce and stamped all over the fabric first with that. The lettuce end looked like a flower to me. Then I used the stencil over that. I am not as wild about how this one turned out because the background stamping and the stencil seemed to overwhelm each other. So lesson learned there. The other backgrounds I did were much better. I do love this stencil though.

Lettuce end used as a stamp for the background. I added crystals as a necklace. A few French knots and straight embroidery lines on her head wrap too. 

Back side of purse.

I like the paisley print. It is a lightweight canvas material.

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