These three Little Sweets are delightful to put in your knitting tote or handbag. Fill them with stitch markers, tiny scissors, or tapestry needles. Their diminutive silhouettes are too cute to pass up, fun and fast to make, and make great gifts.

Choose 26 1/2 minutes for a pair of precious earrings, your favorite rings, medicines you take at lunch time. Make Just Lipstick as a little purse for a tube of lipstick, chapstick, or your phone blue-tooth. And Little Poof is the cutest change purse ever. It's also great for stitch holders, those tiny snips scissors, and other small knitting necessities.

See the Additional Details tab below for information about Pattern Difficulty, Dimensions, Gauge, Materials, and the Pictured Samples.

Pattern Difficulty 

Requires knowledge of casting on, knitting, purling, increasing, decreasing, knitting in the round on double-pointed needles, binding off, and some hand-sewing during the finishing process and to make the tiny bag linings (if desired).

Finished Dimensions

Twenty-Six and A Half Minutes: 2 1/2" w x 2 1/2" h (6.25cm w x 6.25cm h)

Just Lipstick: 2 1/2" w x 3 1/2" h (6.25cm w x 8.75cm

Little Poof: 2 1/2" x 2 3/4" h (6.25cm w x 6.5cm) 

Gauge  

20 sts and 28 rounds = 4" (10cm) in stockinette stitch 

Materials

Yarn Requirements

Twenty-Six and A Half Minutes: 20 yds (18.5m) 

Just Lipstick: 20 yds (18.5m)

Little Poof: 25 yds (23m)

For All Bags

US7 (4.5mm) set of 5 double-pointed needles 

Sewing needle for finishing work

Tapestry needle for weaving in ends

Locktite Super Glue “Extra Time Ccontrol”

1/16 yd (.05m) lining fabric if desired (optional)

2 locking stitch markers in different colors to mark sides

For Twenty-six and a half minutes:

1 Noni Little Sweets Hardware Kit: 

• 1 Little Flirt purse frame
• 1 Noni seed beads and thread package of white thread with silver beads or your preferred color
• 1 Noni label

For Just Lipstick:

1 Noni Little Sweets Hardware Kit

Alien skulls in small and large sizes as preferred

For Little Poof:

1 Noni Little Poof Hardware Kit:

• 1 Little Flirt purse frame
• 1 already attached 10" purse chain
• 1 Noni seed beads and thread package of white thread and silver beads
• 1 4.5" x 4.5" piece of stiffener for the bag bottom
• 6 12mm bag feet

Small Alien Skulls purchased separately as preferred

Cover Samples

All of the Little Sweets bags are made with worsted-weight, feltable wool. Pictured bags are made with Stonehedge Fiber Mill’s Shepherd’s Wool

I remember one of the first purses I ever owned: a gift for my birthday, it was soft to the touch and tiny. Perfect for treasured things when I was a little girl and then for grown-up girl things, like lipstick . . . and change. It carried these essentials until its sweet little kiss lock would no longer kiss.

Lipstick and Change is my effort to recapture that beloved first purse. My update is colorful, playful, and has 3 size options (who doesn't love options?).

The tiniest size is perfect for when you can leave the house with just about nothing except a car key, lipstick, and a few crisp bills.

The medium size is ideal for the after party where smart phones are just not cool. And the celeb who spots your bag will probably ask you where you got it.

The largest size is large enough for an I-phone and everything you really need. You really can't make just one.

Look at Additional Details for Dimensions, Gauge, Necessary Materials and information about Kits.

Finished Dimensions

Pattern Difficulty

Intrepid Easy: Requires knowledge of knitting and purling, knitting in the round on circular needles, and some hand-sewing during the finishing process.

Gauge

Pre-felted gauge: 20 stitches and 28 rounds = 4" (10cm) in St st with a double-strand of worsted weight yarn.

Materials

A Lipstick and Change Hardware Kit is available for your convenience. It contains:

4" (10cm) classic purse frame 
10" (25cm) classic purse chain
4 Noni 12mm bag feet
5 x 5 in sheet of stiffener

NOTE: the pattern, yarn, beads, and thread are not included in the kit so that you may choose the format and colors you prefer.

Yarn Requirements

Small Lipstick: 75 yds (69m)
Medium Lipstick: 95 yds (90m)
Large Lipstick:110 yds (100m)

Needles and Other Materials

Size 8 (5mm) 16 (4cm) circular needles or size needed to obtain gauge
Sharp sewing needle
Large-eyed darning needle
Stitch marker to mark round
Large-mouth hole punch to punch stiffener
Awl or size 6 (4mm) double-pointed needle
Locktite Superglue Extra Time Control clear-drying glue to glue bag into frame

Cover Samples

All pictured samples were made in Stonehedge Fiber Mill Shepherd's Wool. Samples were made in Orange, Antique Rose, Hot Pink, Christmas Red, Turquoise, Yellow and Lime.