Sunday 1 July 2012

I made this today!

I started this purse the day I showed my friend Eloise how to make a purse, which reminds me I must post a few of those photos!


I made a porthole panel in the shape of a leaf with my peephole fabric strip pieced, chevron style, to represent the veins of a leaf - I think it worked well...it was inspired by the fabulous Leila and her beautiful reverse applique leaf coasters




On the other side I stitched some little leaves onto the natural linen in different greens and some gold floss!  I like this side too!



But I wanted my little coin purse to put on some weight and for that it needed a gusset!  I drew one up and I pieced some green into that too!



 And the lining just had to be green too with a little dot!





I love my little coin purse, which is 6" long by 4" at the widest part!  I used fusible wadding to give a bit of structure.  It was a bit more fiddly than the other bigger purses I have made as there is less room to fit the frame into the purse.   But all that happened was I got a bit more glue on my fingers and on the frame which cleaned up easily enough so I see more of these little ones in my future!

I have a few more frames to try out .....yippee!  I do love this frame purse making ....but I guess you worked that out for yourselves!



19 comments:

  1. what a gorgeous purse. love the little leaves embroidered and the piecing is just so beautiful. great job!

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  2. Oh damn you! You'll see why eventually...

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  3. That looks amazing! Love the style and the colours =D

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  4. Your purse is just darling!!

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  5. that's amazing! So cute and I love the gusset - brilliant idea!

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  6. what a great little purse, especially like the portholes idea!

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  7. That is just the most gorgeously sweet purse! Well done you.

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  8. Just too clever for words! LOVE. IT. Di x

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  9. Wow this is amazing, love the leaf porthole!

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  10. The porthole looks great, clever idea with the leaf shape. Love this little purse.

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  11. The porthole leaf is really clever - and it looks great!!

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  12. Fabulous purse Nicky, love it. Well done.

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  13. That is really cute, I love the shape of the bag and the leaf piecing and the porthole is just genius!

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  14. Totally in love! What a fantastic coin purse!

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