Purse Week

You may remember the {Seed Bag Clutches} that my sister & I made at the beginning of the summer? Well....the clutch has been entered into Purse Week, over at {A Lemon Squeezy Home}!!!! The deadline for entering is not for awhile, so judging & whatnot will not take place for another month or more, but I'm so excited!!!! To view my entry, click {here} and {here}.

Almost All Night-er

My sister's friend is getting married in the beautiful Chapel in the Trees in Funk's Grove. The bride asked my sister to find her a Funk Farms seed sign or something that she could frame for her new house in Montana. My sister just happens to have a farmer boyfriend that had TONS of seed signs and seedbags. Being a bit craftastic, my sister thought it would be fun to make clutches for all of the bridesmaids....out of seedbags!!!

She came over last night and we got started as soon as the kiddos were asleep!

Here are our supplies... seedbags, interfacing, lining fabric, strap fabric & pattern pieces

not shown - 7" zippers and heavy duty thread

We ironed interfacing on the back of the seed bag pieces. We sewed the seedbag & lining pieces to the zipper first. Then we sewed the lining together. We pieced it all together, sticking the strap in between the layers and zig zag stitched all the way around the outside of the clutch twice.

It took us a few hours, but we got them done!

Here's one side...The other side...
and the inside...

I am super excited at how these turned out! My sister also found some older burlap seedbags, so stay tuned for what we did with those!!

P.S. - I LOVE the inside lining fabric - Multi Mod Floral - from JoAnn's! I would love to make curtains and towels for my kitchen out of this fabric!

Another Strappy Clutch

My sister saw the vintage tea cups fabric that I was using this week and had to have something made from it!! She loves all things tea, so I made her a Strappy Clutch using the fabrics from lil miss's dress! I also made her a matching tote/reusable shopping bag, but I forgot to take a picture. Fun fabrics!!!

Clutch, much?!

I recently purchased a bag pattern from Sewingwithme3 on Etsy and with my purchase of an $8.00 pattern, I got 6 FREE patterns! The bag project is on hold because I just ordered my fabric from Sew Mama Sew...however, I couldn't wait to try the FREE Caroline Clutch pattern! Lil miss has been carrying a purse around for awhile now, but recently her collection of lip glosses/chap sticks has become quite large...so I thought that the Caroline Clutch looked like the perfect solution!

She picked out the fabrics from my stash {they just happened to be on top and totally coordinating!} and I think it turned out super cute!!

The finished dimensions are 6.5" wide by 5" tall with a 2" depth. It's the perfect size for your license, credit card/cash and cell phone or makeup or your kiddos' stuff!

I originally used a magnetic clasp that I picked up spontaneously at Joann's a while back....however it was junk! And since the clutch is for lil miss, I needed something kid friendly and durable, so I went with Velcro.

She loves it! {Don't mind the random Easter tattoos and marker all over her arms & hands!}

Keep-the-Change Purse

I mentioned that a co-worker wanted me to make her a coin purse in this post, so I scaled down the Strappy Clutch pattern and came up with this...

"Keep-the-Change" Purse!!

I got "One-Yard Wonders: 101 Sewing Projects" for Christmas! It has 101 projects that only use one yard of fabric!! I completed a project from the book today, but I need the kiddos to give it a test run before I post it...so stay tuned!!

Strappy Clutch

A coworker asked me to make her a zipper coin purse over Christmas Break. I started looking for patterns and I found this tutorial at From an Igloo. I started making it and quickly realized that the end product would be much larger than a coin purse, so I decided that this would be the finishing touch to my sister's Christmas gift!! It was a little challenging to put together only because the opening was a little bit smaller than my sewing machine and it was difficult to sew the final step. However, I LOVE the outcome and will for sure be making more of these!!

And my sister loved it too!!!