Sew Powerful Purses #159-162 (2025)

3 Scrappy selvage flaps and a scrappy pieced flap all paired with denim jeans that have been upcycled into purses. Donated to Sew Powerful Purse Project to some sweet girls in Zambia.

Selvage scrappy flaps.

Back pockets.

One selvage flap and one scrappy pieced flap.

Front jean pockets for an added front pocket.

Always fun to use the back denim jean pockets for an additional pocket.

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Sew Powerful Purses #157-158 (2025)

2 more purses donated to Sew Powerful Purse Project. Using up more scraps and upcycled denim jeans for purse bodies.

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Sew Powerful Purses #154-156 (2025)

3 More Sew Powerful purses to donate. I loved using up some of my fabric scraps to make these purse flaps. Paired with denim jeans that I upcycled into to purse bodies.

Scrappy purse flaps.

Denim jeans that were upcycled into these purses.

Back side all with pockets.

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Sew Powerful Purse #153 (2025)

I made this purse flap from a stack of donated pinwheel blocks I got from a free donation table at a group a couple years ago. Each pinwheel block was in different colors. I made a few purses before using a pinwheel block, but now I am sewing more of them. I had just enough of the Flip Flops (thong sandals) print to make this one purse. It was a fun print to use and perfect for pairing with the pinwheel quilt block as both scream Summertime to me.

I needed to add a few fabric strips to make the quilt block the right size for the purse flap.

Love those flip flops!

This print is so fun and perfect for summer!

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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 #145-150 (2025)

Here are 6 more purses using all kinds of scrap fabrics, yarn bits, vinyl scraps, the outer cut out bits from die cuts, felt scraps and more and then covered in a gold metallic embossed tulle and quilted. (I recently shared similar purses with blue metallic embossed tulle). I added buttons to all the flaps.

Donated these to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Anything goes when using tiny bits of fabric scraps.

These flaps all look great once they are done. 

All the fronts look like these, but the lining may vary. The tie dye look fabric for the purse bodies was given to me by a quilter. Thanks Rosalie!

The backs all look like theses with pockets. Just love that bright wild fabric!

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Sew Powerful Purse #144 (2025)

I have made a lot of flaps using tiny bits of fabric scraps and other scraps, covered in tulle and quilted the flaps. I wanted to do the same thing for this flap, only I wanted to try denim scraps only (with a few scraps of organza on top for a bit of shimmer). It worked very nicely quilting the denim this way as there were no thick seams to worry about and adding the lining later it was much nicer too without thick seams to topstitch. I quilted it all and then I couched some yarn on top and added buttons too. The tulle I used had some glitter on it too. I tried to remove as much glitter as possible from the outside so it didn't get all over everything. 

Quilted and added couched yarns and added buttons.

This was a fabric that was given to me by a quilter I know. I love the tie dye look!

Back slip pocket.

I made several purses using this tie dye look lightweight canvas material and scrappy flaps. I will be sharing the rest of them soon. 

Donating this and a whole box of other purses I made to Sew Powerful Purse Project. I just packed up a box of 95 purses this morning. Yippee!!! 

Got to go clean and oil my machines next and then start sewing some more kits I just cut up ready to sew. It sure feels good to send a box of purses off to help some girls in Zambia and South Africa too. I used up a lot of fabric, but still no visible dent in my fabrics, except for the selvages that I used making a ton of flaps recently and the denim jeans I used for several purse bodies too. Now I need to make more denim scrappy flaps like this one to shrink the denim scraps bag down.

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