Thursday is Purse Day - Hummingbird Purse

I made Hummingbird Purse in 2007.  It's 13" long with the handle, 8" without the handle, and 5" wide.  The inspiration was Laurel Burch's hummingbird fabric.

The top is knit out of eyelash yarn.  I fussy cut a hummingbird after fusing two layers of fabric together.  I satin stitched around the edges, then glued eyelash yarn over it.  I sewed metallic beads on the beak, added one for the eye, then attached the bird to the purse with a few more beads.

The bottom front has lots of dangly bead tassels, with a variety of bead types. 

Some of the same beads made it into the handle.

The back gives you a good view of the knitted top with two horizontal bands of beading.  There's a fabric lining inside the yarn top.  I used that to sew the feathers to the top, one at a time.  That was the hardest part of making the purse.

This is the label that lives inside the purse.