Sew Powerful Purses #71-72 for 2025

2 more flowers made with upcycled rainbow tank top and texture painted flap background. One batik purse body and one upcycled denim jeans purse body. Also, one pieced webbing scraps made into a long enough strap. These were donated to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I love these 1/4 Hawaiian quilt block flowers to use in the flap corners. I reduced the flower on the right. The one on the left is larger and folds a bit to the back of the purse. 

More decorative machine stitches on the denim scrap front.

Back of denim purse also is made of denim scraps and decorative machine stitches. You can see the pieced webbing strap on the left purse a little better here too. I had a couple of webbing pieces I had used for something else and I sewed a ribbon on one and rickrack on the other  and joined them together along with a light purple webbing scrap.

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Sew Powerful Purses #2-5 (for 2025)

4 more purses finished! 3 I used selvages on the flaps and one I painted the flap and added an appliqué Hawaiian flower in the corner.

I used a small quilt block in the center of 2 of these and then sewed selvages around them, while the center purse I used a small rectangle scrap. I loved upcycling selvages and denim jeans! The purse bodies are indeed upcycled denim jeans as you can see in the photos below.

The front jean pockets are perfect as the front of these purses and gives an extra bonus pocket (or 2 as in the left purse). I also sometimes add the front jean pocket to the back of the purse, but I think I prefer it this way on the front.

I used the black back denim pockets on the outer 2 purses and created a slip pocket for the blue denim purse. Oftentimes the denim jeans are so large that the back pockets would be cut nearly in half if I used them on the back, so I have to see if they will fit first.

The flower on the flap below is another upcycle I cut from this rainbow tie dye knit tank top I have. Every time I cut an appliqué shape from the tank top, different parts of the tank top are used, so this one was the section of these purple and blue colors. Some I cut were more reds, yellow and orange. It's fun to see so many colors and so many appliqué shapes that I can get from this tank top.

I painted this white canvas material first with different textures and then added a quarter of a Hawaiian flower appliqué into the corner of the flap. 

Black upcylcled denim jeans purse body.

Back with a slip pocket.

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