It didn't take long for me to switch to my much-loved felts...I bought this mossy green wool felt at The Cloth Shop a few years ago when I was lucky enough to travel to London. This first photo shows the back of the purse...you can think of the design as a story about this little flying fellow travelling from flower to flower...sort of "a day in the life of...":
And this is the front:

I dyed this blue felt...you always get these lovely nuances in the color when you dye you own material. These birds are lorikeets...they're native Australians...something like small parrots...I have a group of regulars that come to me for breakfast every morning...and lunch...and dinner...and like all parrots they're real clowns...which is why one of them is hanging upside down:


And this is just a little purse for loose change...you can see that I suddenly noticed that I'd forgotten all about the zips, so here I've used a tutorial that places the zipper at the front of the purse rather than on the top:

And here I got sidetracked again
...this time
by a book my daughter showed me by Graham Leslie McCallum called "4000 Flower and Plant Motifs"...which made me start thinking how much I like what Paul Klee does with flowers...they're completely child-like and imaginary and look like they have grown in some magical garden: