brown and teal

My daughter loves to give presents. She really liked the change purse I posted last week. She liked it so much she asked me to make a few for her friends.

Well anyhow, Last fall, at my favorite thrift store they had a summer clothes sale, a grocery bag full for a $1. I went through the racks and picked out cotton skirts and shorts that had zippers because I hate buying zippers. I never knew how useful, this bag of stuff would be!

The above used to be a skirt. The teal part is the actual waist band. the embroidered part was already on the skirt I just incorporated it into the piece. It is zipped closed with the zipper from the skirt. Of course it all matched. Now a once discarded skirt, is a nifty little change purse.

The best part? The factory did most of the work, all I had to do was fussy cut the squares sew on the zipper, and sew the outside and turn!