Patterns, Techniques, Articles, Blogs, and other resources to learn how to sew
Caroline from Sew Caroline shares a tutorial at Sew, Mama, Sew! showing how to make her Date Night Clutch. It uses a 10″ x 4″ frame for the top, so it’s a good sized clutch, big enough to hold just … Read more ... 
This linen and lace frame purse is absolutely beautiful! Bev from Flamingo Toes made it and she shares a tutorial showing how. It’s a good project to use up scraps of vintage (and vintage-look) ribbons and trims. It’s hard to… Read more ... 
Bev from Flamingo Toes shares a tutorial in the Bake, Craft & Sew Along at Skip to My Lou showing how to make an easy embroidered frame purse. The small coin purse fits in a 8cm round frame. A bottom… Read more ... 
Caila from Caila Made shares a tutorial over at Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky! showing how to make her Hexi Clutch, a lovely little frame purse accented with a trio of hexi appliques. You can use any frame to make the purse;… Read more ... 
Look at these itty bitty frame pouches! Squeeal!! So tiny! So cute! They attached to a keychain and a’re just big enough to hold a couplf of spare coins. Or maybe your daughter’s earrings, when she takes them out of… Read more ... 
These vintage-inspired purse frames are soooo pretty!! You can get them from Consumer Crafts, but they don’t come with a pattern. No matter, because Vanessa from Tried and True shares a free pattern on their blog, Crafts Unleashed. She… Read more ... 
Sew4Home shows how to make these pretty little frame purses. They include a free pattern that will work with frames 8-10″ long by 3″ tall. Go there for the tutorial.
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Caila Made guest blogs in the Make It For Mom series at Shaffer Sisters with a tutorial showing how to make a pleated coin purse. The body of this cute little pouch has stitched down pleats and is sewn into… Read more ... 
Oh, I am loving this little frame purse! I don’t usually fall for the overly girly, but there was no resisting this little purse. It has a ruffle across the top and a big bow stitched to the front. Sew4Home… Read more ... 
Clutch frame purses are sooo cute! They’re small and they’re snappy. But with a wide variety of sizes and shapes of frames available, there’s no one-size-fits-all pattern for making the bag. Caila from Caila Made shows how to draft your… Read more ... 
Lisa Lam from U-Handbag shares a free pattern over at Sew, Mama, Sew! for making her Pleated Purse Frame Purse. The project is an excerpt from her new book, A Bag For All Reasons. Get the free pattern at … Read more ... 
Sew4Home shows how to make a cute little coin purse using a sew-in frame. They embellish the front with a strip of pleated fabric. Get the how-to.
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Bev from Flamingo Toes shows how to make her Linen & Ruffles Coin Purse. The curvy little pouch has a metal frame closure. The ruffles and buttons down the front are so cute! Go to her tutorial.
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Mandy from Sugar Bee Crafts shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to make a framed coin purse. This is such a cute way to carry your coin money! Go to her tutorial.
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The Free Spirit Fabrics blog shares a PDF tutorial by Melissa Peda from 100 Billion Stars showing how to make her Penny Pincher coin purse. It’s made with a flex frame, so opening it is just a matter of pinching… Read more ... 
