Sew Powerful Purse #202 (2024)

Another purse to donate to Sew Powerful. So far all the stenciled flaps that I have made need to be lower on the flap! I had eyeballed where the flap folds over to the back, but apparently I didn't eyeball enough! At least I have been consistent and all the stencils need to be lower on the flap when I stencil them again.😜

Another stencil that I need to lower down on the flap more so her head doesn't get cut off for the future flaps that I stencil.

Front with pocket and the yummy looking cupcake flap lining!

Flap opened out so you can see the entire flap.

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Sew Powerful Purse #201 (2024)

Another stenciled flap, but this time it is a hand with rings on her thumb and finger, wearing a bracelet while holding a string of beads. I painted the dots for the background and then added the stencil. Crystals I added in the center of the string of beads.

With the flap opened out like this you can see the entire stencil.

Donating this purse to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

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Sew Powerful Purse #193 for 2024

I used textured rubbing plates and paint sticks to first create the background and then stenciled this African Woman on the flap. Added some crystals on her earrings and and created a necklace of crystals too. Another Sew Powerful Purse donation is done.

I had to piece the fabric for the back pocket in order to have a large enough fabric for the pocket, so I stitched some ribbon over the pocket seam, since the gingham didn't line up exactly.

The gingham is actually a flannel fabric. I liked the colors, so I used it as the purse body.

You can see the whole flap here. Maybe I will lower the stencil on the next one I do so that the top of her head wrap is not folded over to the back.

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Sew Powerful Purses #150-153 (2024)

Here are four more purses that I stenciled with this African woman stencil on the flaps. I used paint to add to the background and added hotfix crystals as necklaces on all and 2 I also added crystals on the earring.

Smile beautiful ladies!

The background was painted with textures. Crystals on necklace and earring.

A different textured background. Crystals on earring and necklace.

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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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Sew Powerful Purses #118-122 (2024)

5 more purses finished for Sew Powerful Purse Project. I had a donated fabric that I used for the purse bodies that is a lovely colorful print that looks like it was painted. I wanted to get as many purses as I could using that print, so I made scrappy flaps and included a scrap of the print in each of the 4 scrappy flaps I made (except for one that I painted) and I added appliqué as the focal point of the flaps too. I really love how these flaps and purses turned out!

I added a purple heart appliqué to the center of the flap to give it a nice focal point on this purse and the other four purses I pieced below with added appliqué as well.

Flap is up showing the lining and the front of the purse to see the exterior fabric better. Isn't the exterior fabric beautiful? Each cut piece of the that fabric shows a different part of the print.

The back of the purse and a different section of the print fabric.

The Saguaro cactus is a die cut I have and this is the first time using it. We don't have any Saguaro cactus here in New Mexico where I live, but I have seen lots of these cacti in Arizona, in Phoenix and Tucson area. They are such tall fun cactus and the arms of each cactus can look so different and take on their own personality. I may need to add a little note about this cactus int he notecard that I include in the purse, so the girl who receives this will know what it is, in case she hasn't seen one in a photo before.

Another section of the print reveals a different look than the other purse.

Here is the back of the purse, showing yet another part of the print.

This purse has a heart appliqué in a different color than the first heart appliqué that I showed.

The back of the purse. I wondered if those squiggly lines on the fabric was a flaw? I saw them in a few places and they didn't make any sense in the print, so I wonder if a thread got in the way when the fabric was printed? Perhaps that is why someone donated this fabric? I used it anyhow and placed it on the back of the purse. This was the only purse that I had enough fabric to add the back slip pocket on.

This purse I added a flower appliqué with doubled stacked buttons in the center of the flower. I love that the center button fit perfectly inside the larger button, since that yellow button had the raised part around it.

Front of the purse and a bit more of the lines (it gets covered by the flap)

 and another part of this print.

Back of the purse with another section of the print.

I first painted a texture background on this flap and then added the stenciled woman on top of the fabric after the paint dried. The paint I used for the hair has a metallic iridescence to it, which you cannot see in the photo.

I also painted the lining of the flap and used a different stencil of a woman playing the drum. The front of the purse shows another portion of the fabric print.

The back of the purse showing yet another portion of this beautiful print.

5 girls will get to enjoy the beautiful fabric in these purses. If I had seen that fabric for sale, I might have purchased the entire bolt! I am thankful I got the donation of the fabric and was was able to get 5 purses made from it.

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