Purse

My sister-in-law got home from her mission a few weeks ago. She has been staying with us ever since. She just left today to go see the rest of the family in Kentucky. Sad to see her go, I will miss her so much......BUT, I know that she will do just fine. Anyways back to the topic. LOL. After about 2 days of her being here she came to me saying that she needed a purse. All of her stuff is in Kentucky and she has been using a backpack for the past 18 months. SOOOO, I told her "well, let's make you one then" I saw this idea on Brassy Apple. We actually ended up making her 2 different purses. One was a "no sew" purse, which she used the entire time she was here, and here is the other one. Yes I made one to so you get to see both of ours. They are made out of a t-shirt, and embroidery hoops for the handles. Total cost: $2.50 it doesn't get much better than that. Am I right?

So this one is mine. I bought a blue t-shirt from the dollar store, already had the buttons, the flower in the corner is a piece of fabric. I just cut it out of a cute piece of fabric. The handles like I said are embroidery hoops covered with fabric.Here is a close up of the flowers I made. One with fabric and one with ribbon. Aren't they cute cute cute?

Close up of the fabric cut flower. Yes I did hand stitch that on.
I also hand sewed all the buttons. It did take a little while, but so worth it.

Here are the handles up close. I left the raw edges showing. I loved that look so I kept it. Used the good ole hot glue gun to keep intact.

My wonderful SIL decided that we should have a nice finish on the inside, so I looked through my boxes of fabric and found more of the marble kind to make the inside look all nice and pretty. I love the marble, I will be sad when I run out of it.

Here is the other one. This one is Wendy's my SIL. Isn't it cute. She did such a good job. It did take her a while to decide what she wanted to do and after lots of different ideas this is what she wanted. The only thing that I did for her was the marble rosette and the purple one, I also sewed the bag inside to the outside. Other than that, she did it all.

She also hand stitched everything on the purse. Didn't she do fantastic?

She put one button on each side to hold down the little flap that goes on the inside, which I already had in my bag of buttons.

Another close up. Can you see the stitching around the cute little leafs. Yep it took her FOREVER, but it turned out really cute.

She used the marble fabric for her handles.

And she picked purple for her inside piece. All in all, I think we did a good job. We actually made these in no time at all, but we couldn't find anywhere near us that sold those hoops for the handles so it took us about 2 1/2 weeks to finally get them done cause we had to hunt those hoops down. But once we got those, they went from plain t-shirt to CUTE purse.