Purse from a suit jacket

This was my inspiration, an article in Sew News magazine. My husband was getting rid of some suit jackets that, even if they still fit, he no longer wore. One of them actually matched the illustration in the article almost perfectly!


Here it is before I started chopping...

and the finished product! I used some orange cotton from my stash for lining, put an orange button on the pocket flap, and even made a little wallet from pieces leftover (no picture of that though). I eventually made another one from the other jacket and will eventually post a picture of it. No before pic though.