6 - 8 - 10 is a sleek, slim handbag perfect for the woman who travels light. This bag is elegant, understated, and stands on her own or is beautiful embellished with a cluster of small flowers or with one large life-like Hibiscus.

In other words, this bag is the perfect special occasion bag: make a 6 for the bride and 8s for each of her attendants. Take a 10 to the wedding you are going to later this year. Make an 8 for your Mother-in-Law's birthday, and another for yourself for the birthday party in her honor. Bead a little red 6 with a grid of black beads for your Valentine's Day date. Make an 8 dazzling with Sparkle Rivets. Make a very interesting statement with a row of small Alien Skull Ornaments across the top, just under the line of sparkly beads that hold the frame in place . . .  

These slender purses are the blank canvas for your creative musings. We can't wait to see what you will do.

Click on the Additional Details tab for more information about dimensions, yarn amounts, materials, and bag kits that include everything you need to complete this project.  

Finished Dimensions

6 Bag

7 1/2" (19cm) wide across the front/back at bag bottom
6 1/2" (16.25cm) wide across the front/back at bag top
5 1/2" (14cm) tall from bottom to frame

8 Bag

7 1/2" (19cm) wide across the front/back at bag bottom
6 1/2" (16.25cm) wide across the front/back at bag top
6 1/2" (16cm) tall from bottom to frame

10 Bag

7 1/2" (19cm) wide across the front/back at bag bottom
6 1/2" (16.25cm) wide across the front/back at bag top
8" (20cm) tall from bottom to frame

Pattern Difficulty

Intrepid Beginner: A great first knitting or first felted bag project as it requires knowledge of casting on, knitting and purling, knitting in the round on circular needles, 3-needle bind off, and some hand-sewing during the finishing process.

Gauge

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

Materials

Suggested Hardware

Empire frame - Because the Empire Frame is now sold out, an excellent hardware substitute is the Elegant Frame available in 3 finishes
'A Noni Design' label

Yarn Requirements

6: 110 yds (100m)
8: 140 yds (130m)
10: 175 yds (160m)

Needles and Other Materials

Two Size 8 (5mm) 16" (40cm) circular needles
Spare size 8 (5mm) needle for 3-needle bind off
Stitch markers
Tapestry & sewing needles
Fabric glue (clear drying)

Pictured Samples

The pictured bags were created using Stonehedge Fiber Mill Shepherd's Wool: 6 is made in White, 8 in Pewter, and 10 in Granite.

The day was spent in the gardens, walking along avenues, under arched trellises, past espalier pear trees so laden with pears you wanted to step over the fence and pick one when no one was looking.

Later, you grabbed that little bag you made just for this trip. Dinner in Paris.

The bag sits on the table like a pastry or still life. The marble of the tables feels cool to the touch. It feels lovely to be watching the people walk past, lingering over a baguette, cheeses that amaze, and wine with notes of flowers, honey, fresh raspberries.

Delightful in hand-dyed or beaded silk, a scattering of Sparkle Rivet stars. Lovely in felt for an evening at the opera, it's lushness perfection with a velvet and satin gown. A beautiful gift to yourself or for someone special.

This bag requires an Elegant Frame, 27" Classic Purse Chain, and Sparkle Rivets to complete. Look at Additional Details below for information about dimensions, gauge, materials, and our custom hardware kits.

Finished Dimensions

6" (15cm) wide across front/back at bag top
6.75" (17cm) wide across front/back at bag bottom
5" (12.5cm) tall from bottom to frame

Pattern Difficulty

Bags
Intrepid Easy: Requires knowledge of knitting, purling, increasing, decreasing, knitting in the round on circular needles, working 3-needle bind off.

Cactus Flowers
Intrepid Intermediate: Requires knowledge of knitting and purling, increasing and decreasing, picking up sts, working in the round on double-pointed needles, and some simple hand-sewing and wiring.

Gauge

Bags

Pre-felted gauge: 16 stitches and 22 rounds = 4" (10cm) in St st with a single strand of worsted weight yarn.
Non-felted gauge: 19 - 20 stitches and 40 rounds = 4" (10cm) in St st with a single strand of worsted weight yarn.

Flowers

24 stitches and 32 rounds = 4" (10cm) in St st with a single strand of worsted weight yarn.

Materials

Yarn Requirements

Felt bag: 263 yds (240m)
Unfelted bag: 168 yds (154m)
Flowers: 20 yds (18m)

Needles and Other Requirement

Size 8 (5mm) 24" (60cm) circular needle for felted bag Size 6 (4mm) 24" (60cm) circular needle for unfelted bag
Size 6 (4mm) double-pointed needles (set of 5) for flowersTapestry needle
Sewing needle
Nylon beading thread
Locking stitch markers to mark beginning of round and as stitch holders for flowers
Elegant Snap Frame
Sparkle Rivets to decorate the front face of the bag and flower centers
Sharp, large-eyed darning needle
28 gauge beading or brass wire
27" classic purse chain

Pictured Samples

The Felted bag was made with Stonehedge Fiber Mill Shepherd's Wool in Christmas Red. The felted beaded bag was made in Tilli Tomas Flurries in Chocolate Cherry. The Unembellished Silk bag is in ArtYarns Silk Pearl in Pale Yellow and the embellished silk bag is in ArtYarns Beaded Pearl & Sequins and Silk Pearl, both in Pale Yellow. Pictured flowers are made with ArtYarns Beaded Pearl & Sequins.

Bauble is a term we don't hear very often anymore, but in the early modern texts I used to study, a bauble is a lovely, pretty thing. A play thing. A trifle. 

The Pretty Bauble is a lovely knitted and felted (or leave it unfelted) bag that is as playful as it is pretty. It is certain to become the favorite of both the woman who loves ruffles and flourishes, and the blue-jeans-wearing woman who is practical in her dress but loves a trifle of a bag. Make it felted or unfelted, in embellished or unembellished yarns. Decorate with sparkley beads and hang on an Elegant Frame. Dress with Cabochon Rivets that match the finish of the frame for a more understated sparkle. 

The construction of this bag, with increases just below the frame, allows for a romantic, vintage-style, roomy finished bag that will accommodate all of the essentials, allowing it to go from day to evening to day.

A terrific bag to give as a gift!

Pretty Bauble uses the Elegrant Frame plus a Classic 27" Chain. Please take a look at Additional Details below for information about dimensions, gauge, materials, and hardware kits.

Finished Dimensions

6.8”(17cm) wide across the front/back at bag bottom
6” (15cm) wide across the front/back at bag top
9 - 10” (23 - 25cm) tall

Pattern Difficulty

Intrepid beginner: Requires knowledge of knitting, purling, increasing, decreasing, knitting in the round on circular and double pointed needles, some hand-sewing in the finishing process.

Gauge

Pre-felted: 16 sts and 22 rounds = 4" (10cm) on size 8 (5mm) in St st with a single strand of worsted weight yarn.
Unfelted: 24 sts and 32 rounds = 4" (10cm) on size 4 (3.5mm) in St st with a single strand of DK or light worsted weight yarn.

Materials

Yarn Requirements

Felted Bag: 420 yds (384m) worsted weight, feltable wool
Unfelted Bag: 285 yds (260m) DK or light worsted weight yarn

Needles & Other Materials

Size 8 (5mm) 16" (40cm) circular needles
Size 4 (3.5mm) 16" (40cm) circular needles
Tapestry needle
Sewing needle
Nylon sewing thread
Stitch markers
Elegant snap frame
Noni Tassel

Pictured Samples

The embellished, unfelted bag was created using Tilli Tomas’s Superwash Whistler in Ruby Wine on a US4/3.5 mm. The felted bag was created using Stonhedge Fiber Mill Shepherd's Wool in Midnight Lake.

Let us put a custom hardware kit together for you. Contact Nora at nora@nonipatterns.com for details and pricing.