Molly's Sketchbook: Lovely Liberty Coin Purse Kits!

Coin purses are one of my favorite things to make because they are so useful and make such great gifts.  They are also amazingly easy to sew, which you might not know because usually their instructions are in Japanese! Sadly, I don’t speak Japanese but luckily purlsoho.com’s Mari does. A little while ago she helped translate the pattern for one of the purses for us and a whole new world opened up! The Cute Japaneses Coin Purse stands out as one of my all time favorite Purl Bee projects and I actually still use it to this day. I’ve made many more coin purses since then and I love giving them as gifts, people often can’t believe that I actually made them!

Recently we got in some adorable new coin purse frames in two sizes with big prettily colored ball closures and I knew I had to make some more coin purses. I wanted the fabric I chose to be as special as the handles so I chose Liberty of London Tana Lawn for the outside. (Maybe you’ve noticed, but Purl Soho is having a Liberty moment right now. We are just totally in love with the new prints we’ve received and I personally want to sew with it all the time!) For the lining I chose another Purl Soho favorite, Shot Cotton. This lightweight Indian cotton comes in the most incredible jewel-like colors!

Page, Joelle, Whitney, and I all helped to pick out the beautiful color combinations that I ended up with. We all liked them so much that we decided to offer the large size frames together with our fabric selections as kits which you can find at this link!

You can find all 5 colorways of our kit at this link (Top photo is Coral, the others are Amber, Ivory, Tortoise Shell and Jade).  Each kit contains a fat eighth of Liberty of London Tana Lawn and Shot Cotton in colors to coordinate with the colored ball clasps, pattern templates, English instructions, glue, thread and one large size purse frame (there is enough fabric included in the kit to make 3 purses if you cut carefully).  Or, if you want to use your own fabric we also offer just the cute purse frames in either large or small here (large) and here (small).

Check out my Lovely Liberty Coin Purses Project Journal right here to see how they're made!

Thanks-- Molly

Comments

[Tara]

Those are completely wonderful! I desperately need one (or more). How accessible a project would it be to a sewing beginner? I've really not done anything beyond trying to sew a straight line to hem curtains.

[Petit Filous]

Those are super cute!!!!

[BlueFarfallina]

Oh my! I can't decide which one is my favorite!!!

[purl bee]

Hi Tara-

Thanks for your comment! This would be an easy project for a beginner. There is only a little bit of sewing. The hardest part about them is attaching the handle neatly with the glue, but even that is pretty simple.
Let us know how it goes!

Thanks!- Molly

[Beth]

These are so sweet! Great kits! xoxo Beth

[trish]

squeal!!!! how perfect are those!

[Lucy]

Very pretty very pretty. I'd like to have these as my coin purse.

[Bonnie@whataboutpie]

I love these! so adorable! my favorite is the one with the yellow clasp.

[Tina in Boston]

FYI, It looks like the title of the web page got changed to "Molly's Sketchbook: Lovely Liberty Coin Purse Kit.." instead of "The Purl Bee". The "Molly" title is showing up in my Bloglines reader.

[Olof]

Those are beautiful!

[purl bee]

Hi Tina,
I think I fixed the name for blog readers, can you let me know if yours is fixed? It should say "The Purl Bee"
Thanks so much for pointing this out to us!
Joelle

[NATALIA]

As always so original.
Cool.
Big kiss, D

[tante sophie]

molly ... a typo here ... i know i know ... but it's like schmutz on the floor ...

Page, Joelle, WHITNEY not Whitey ;))), and I all helped to pick out the beautiful color combinations that I ended up with. We all liked them so much that we decided to offer the large size frames together with our fabric selections as kits which you can find at this link!

[purl bee]

Thanks Ina! All fixed!

[Tina in Boston]

Hi Joelle! The title is fixed in my Bloglines reader! : )

~Tina

[purl bee]

Tina,
Thank you!!
J

[danielle]

lovely tutorial!
I have been waiting for it! ;)
Can't wait to try!

Bye
Danielle

[Rose]

How cute are these purses. They look so vintage.

[Eliza]

The links to the kits don't work -- and even when I search as described in the coin purse frames section (to search under crafts - kits), the link for the kits brings me back to the homepage of Purl. Since the new website launched, I've actually had a lot of problems with links (esp. from emails or the blog) not working. I use Firefox on a Mac. Is there anything I can do? The website also looks very fuzzy now to me, like the resolution isn't sharp, but I didn't change any of my settings, and other websites still look the same for me. Is there a setting I need to change?

[Rebecca]

Absolutely love these! I cant find them at the shop though, are the kits gone? I could buy the frames I guess but would really love the kits.

bec

[purl bee]

Hi everyone who is looking for the kits,
These were a huge hit, far exceeding our expectations so we've temporarily sold out of them (the kits and the clasps on their own). We've got more on the way and you can preorder them now, we will ship them out as soon as they arrive!
Thanks!!

[cristina]

i love all of them. So cute

[Sasha]

i absolutely love anything with Liberty fabric- gorgeous little purses! I am trying to think of worthy things to do with my grandmother's stash of Liberty fabric and the skirt and purses are a lovely idea!

[Stephanie Monroe]

These are beautiful! I remember the first coin purse tutorial, it was challenging to get the glue and fabric neatly in the frame, but it was so worth it. I have some Liberty of London fabric that I bought from Purl stashed away that would be absolutely perfect for these change purses!

Love the colors you all selected for the kits!