More Practical Pouches (Rosie & David Pattern) Sizes Mini-Small-Medium & XXL

Practical Pouches in sizes Mini, Small, Medium and XXL. I made some of these pouches a few weeks ago, but then ran out of the double-sided tape (DST) I needed, so I ordered more DST and finished the rest of the sizes, plus another XXL size, which is my favorite size.

The Mini has one zipper with the clear vinyl pocket. The Small & Medium sizes have 2 zipper pockets (one is clear on each), and all the sizes have 2 zipper pockets, except for the Mini size. I used glitter ribbon on all of the pouches. I also added zipper pulls with beads and some with charms too. I added the zipper pulls to the first ones I made too, but didn't take the photos of them with the zipper pulls, since I just added them.

The back side of the 3 above. I hand stitched the binding on the back like a quilt.

The XXL is my favorite size. The back pocket holds the pattern pieces to make more of these pouches. I actually was given a kit to make a similar project bag, but with one clear pocket and not as large as this pouch, so I took the fabrics and the pink tassel zipper pull from that kit and made this pouch instead! I even have some of the Tula Pink lion print leftover. I used my fabric for the binding and backing and lining.

Here is the back side with the fabrics that I had that I used. I made changes to the pattern so that I could use cotton fabric instead of the waterproof canvas that Rosie used and added interfacing to the cotton fabrics as well (except no interfacing for the bias binding). I love these pouches and have been using the XXL sizes. 

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Sew Powerful Purses #477-479 for 2025

3 more purses with scrappy flaps and flower appliqués. Donating to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

Vinyl flap lining and some more of the fabric that my mom had given me several years ago. I had cut the rest of that fabric to make purses to donate. Purse below this has this purse body fabric too.

Pieced webbing scraps to create a long enough strap. Covered joins with ribbon.

The flower is an old rainbow dyed tank top I hadn't worn in years, so I cut up tons of flowers for appliqué and have been adding them to purses. Some of the flowers show one color of the dyed tank top, but I love when I can get a bit more of the rainbow colors in a flower, like this one.

This is a fabric I had for years, so I cut the rest for purses too.

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Sew Powerful Purses #473-476 for 2025

Four more purses, 3 have Hawaiian print purse bodies.

I added a little fabric from the purse body and the flap lining in this scrappy purse flap to tie it together.

I also had a couple pieces of scraps from the purse body to add to this purse flap as well as the next 2 purses.

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Sew Powerful Purses #469-472 for 2025

Four purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project with Hawaiian print fabric for the purse body, along with scrappy flaps and appliqué flowers on each. I used a scrap piece from the purse body fabric in each flap. The flowers I cut from my die cuts.  

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Sew Powerful Purses #465-468 for 2025

4 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project.

I used a die cut flower and die cut circle to make this appliqué flower, along with decorative machine stitches.

These 2 are super scrappy flaps using the tiniest pieces of fabrics, covered in tulle and quilted. Added jumbo rickrack and small pieces of a ribbon (the teacup & laugh were cut from ribbons), and a few buttons.

Stenciled flap with texture painted background.

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Sew Powerful Purses #460-464 for 2025

5 more purses to donate to Sew Powerful Purse Project are done.

I added an appliqué bee to this scrappy pieced flap using bee & honey fabrics.

Front of purse and flap lining.

I used some scraps of denim fabrics that upcycled from some denim jeans to create the flap, and then added the flower appliqué. The fun decorative stitches were machine stitched with variegates thread.

Front of purse material was a fabric that my mom gave me more than a decade ago. I made a couple of crossbody bags and a travel bag using this material and now I am using it up making these purses. It is a beautiful large floral print in my favorite colors.

Another scrappy flap with a flower. I pieced together webbing scraps to make the strap long enough. Ribbon was sewn over the joined webbing.

Appliqué flower on another scrappy flap.

This is another scrappy flap with appliqué flower. The flowers on these last 3 purse flaps were made from an old tie dyed rainbow tank top that I rarely wore, so I cut a lot of flowers out of that knit tank top to use as appliqué flowers for these purses.

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Sew Powerful Purses #458-459 for 2025

Here are a couple purses with scrappy flaps and an added appliqué flower.

I like using large buttons when I have them for the center of the flower.

The lining of the flap is vinyl. This exterior fabric I have had for maybe 2 decades? It was about time to use it!

This exterior fabric was given to me by my mom at least 15 years ago. There was a lot of yardage and back then I made 2 cross body bags and a large travel bag with it and I still had plenty of the fabric left. I decided to make a few purses using this fabric print like this one. More purses using this fabric will be shared soon. I love the bold floral print and the colors too. 

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