Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) 2026 Prompt One

Brenda of Songbird Designs gave us the first prompt for our SAHRR, which is Hourglass Blocks. I want to make sure I keep this quilt from getting too large (as I cannot quilt large quilts myself anymore), so I opted to make 2 Hourglass quilt blocks and place them on the sides only. Brenda placed her blocks top/bottom only and others may have gone all around the center block. I need to get this photo added to the Linky party on her blog and see what the others have done with this first prompt while I am there. 

Sunflower center block and Hourglass side blocks.

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Sew Powerful Purses #30-31 for 2026

2 scrappy pieced flaps to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. 

2 scrappy batik fabric flaps. I added an iron on flower embroidery to the left purse. I was an Amazon Vine Customer reviewer for 2 months, so I ordered whatever sewing/craft stuff that looked interesting to try. I got a couple of packages of assorted colors and sizes of a few iron on embroidery flowers and this is the first time using it. It worked well, but I prefer my own appliqué to add to a purse flap. 

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Sew Powerful Purses #24-29 for 2026

6 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. More scrappy pieced purse flaps with added flower appliqué. Plus one painted purse flap background and a painted flap lining with added Zentangle on another purse!

The flower appliqué on four of the purse flaps are from that rainbow tank top that I upcycled into various flower appliqués. 2 purses have batik fabric flower appliqué.

I love how the orange part of the tank top flower here really pops on the green scrappy flap.

The background is painted texture. Batik flower here.

I made the strap on this purse using 2 fabrics. The flower is pretty with the blue, green and yellow colors from the rainbow tank top.

I like using extra large buttons as flower centers, and it's even more fun to stack a smaller button on top and stitch a little flower in the center.

I had to share this flap lining. I had experimented with painted texture on fabric years ago and adding some Zentangle on top. I LOVE Echinacea cone flowers and I did this one in Zentangle. It was large and took up the whole flap. I chose to use it as a lining so when it is opened the flap can be fully seen like this. If I have used it for the exterior of the flap, the top of the flower would have folded to the back side of the purse and the entire cone part would have been cut off from view. So it made a better lining and a fun surprise for the girl who receives this purse.

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Sew Powerful Purses #22-23 for 2026

2 scrappy flaps with purple denim purse bodies for Sew Powerful Purse Project donation.

The center purple part of the flap was a square I had pieced a very long, time ago. I made it thinking I would make a nametag pin or just a pin to wear on a coat, but I didn't wear it after all, so I ripped the backing fabric off and pressed it and as you can see I set it on point and sewed more scraps around it to create the purse flap. I am amazed at all the little things I have started over the years that work so well for the purse flaps. The fabrics are batiks, my favorite kind of fabric to use.

Batik fabric scraps purse flap.

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Sew Powerful Purses #17-21 for 2026

5 patchwork purse flaps with purple denim purse bodies to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. The purse flaps were all made with 2-inch squares fused to a gridded interfacing and then sewn to make perfect patchwork flaps. These were fun to make. A great scrap buster too.

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Sew Powerful Purses #15-16 for 2026

Here are a couple of scrappy pieced purse flaps with added flower appliqué. Buttons for the flower centers and extra buttons for bling, plus the flap on the left has some hotfix crystals too. Flower appliqué I upcycled from a rainbow tie dye tank top and die cut the flowers myself. I will miss those rainbow flowers when the tank top is all cut up into flowers. I will have to find a rainbow dyed fabric to die cut more flowers, or just cut other colors.

Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Purple denim for the purse bodies.

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Sew Powerful Purses #13-14 for 2026

2 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project. I appliquéd partial Dresden Plate blocks to the flaps and added some buttons.

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