My new coin purse!

[knit-errant]

Here's a my new coin purse I whipped up yesterday in a couple of hours. It's made with Lustersheen in 'Tea Leaf' and an F hook. I lined it with some Victorian-ish calico I had left over from a project for my Brownie troop.

 

And of course, just when everything is going along swimmingly, something has to kill it, right? Well, the purse frame I bought was way too small. After I got done being irritated, I made up my own wavy one with 6 strands of 20g silver wire.

 

I added some little semi-precious stone flowers for some interest; I used peach aventurine, green aventurine, carnelian, mother-of-pearl, rhodonite, garnet, and iolite, all wired up with 26g wire.

 

More details and slightly-less-wonky pictures are available on my blog.

 

Thanks for looking!

 

[QueenOfCrochet]

Beautifully done, I love the flowers you added. Great job!

[smyz64]

That is really cute. I love the clasp you made.

[crochetlady]

simply beautiful!!!! i love small things:) One of these days I am going to make myself a coin purse:) Neat thing with the wire clasp and the semi precious stones too!

 

hugs

Vims

[donnalynn2]

BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thanks for sharing!

[nutz4crochet]

Gorgeous. I love it.

[karin4christ]

Its beautiful. I love it.

[Chiscrochetcrazy]

Oh I love that

[NPrairie]

You did a awesome job. Love it.

[Roli]

Leigh, your coin purse is lovely! I took a look at your blog and think that all your pieces are like little confections. You have an eye for precision and detail. I admire the hand-made wire frame. How does it close?

[laffingliz]

Thats really pretty and the silver work is fab too.

[newwithhook]

That is very cute!

[lauravee]

Stunning! That is absolutely gorgeous.

[sammimag]

That's really beautiful!

[knit-errant]

Thanks so much for all of the lovely comments -- so glad you guys like it!

 

Leigh, your coin purse is lovely! I took a look at your blog and think that all your pieces are like little confections. You have an eye for precision and detail. I admire the hand-made wire frame. How does it close?

 

Well, for now it just closes with a snap which I'm not very happy with. (Keeping coins in it isn't really an issue since I rarely carry change... and even more rarely a purse! But still, I'd like to come up with something else.)

 

I haven't been able to nut out anything better yet... maybe I can cannibalize a zipper from some of my daughter's too-small clothes?

[esta]

Very pretty.

[theworm]

Wow! That is SOOOO pretty!

[mwedzi]

Wow, that is sooo nice! Great job

[yarncat]

Lovely!

[eyenowhour]

It looks so intricate and pretty!

[Monique39]

very pretty!

[cher49]

lovely