This is what I started with when a co-worker asked me if I could make purses for her bridesmaids based off of a purse she saw on Etsy. My plain, black, mock up purse seemed easy enough and I had more than enough time to complete the task I agreed. Currently I might throw up if I see another clutch purse. Okay, I’m completely exaggerating, it was not that bad. The outsides of the bridesmaids purses were a champagne satin and the insides were eggplant, chocolate brown or navy blue to match the color of each girl’s dress. The bride chose an eggplant satin with a champagne lining. I found it easiest to do things in steps. For instance, one evening I cut out each piece for all 13 purses. That was 2 pieces of outer fabric, 2 pieces of lining and 2 pieces of batting…if you’re counting that was 78 pieces of fabric I had stacked up in my sewing room! Next I attached the outer piece to the inner batting. I found it easiest to do the 12 bridesmaids purses and wait until I changed my thread and bobbin thread to the eggplant to sew the bride’s purse together. I tried to minimize the amount of times I had to change my thread and bobbin because…well, it’s annoying!
This is where I started kicking myself for agreeing to do this. I didn’t want to mess things up since the bride was paying me to do this, but seriously…..I’m a little sloppy with the glue. AND she wanted these very beautiful peacock feathers on each purse. After a lot of procrastinating I finally took a deep breath and glued on each feather..carefully. I mean, I painted this glue on with a tiny paintbrush! Then came the really unfun task of putting each purse into the purse frame. In my attempt to avoid getting glue everywhere on the purses I quickly saw that the glue on those feathers wasn’t going to hold. I fixed that with a few small stitches, and ended up picking glue off the insides of purses with tweezers!
I was really pleased with how they turned out, and the bride was as well, which was most important right? Oh yeah, and here is her purse..stunning huh?
