Anouk is small, playful, teaming with vibrant, youthful energy. She likes to be decorated, to change her look. One day she is stylishly sleek, without adornment, saturated color. Another day, she is glittering with rhinestones, cabochon rivets, a skull ornament, or fierce look-at-me spikes.

Vianne is refined, formal, captivating. You admire her across the room. She, too, likes the way adornment and color can change her mood. How will you dress her?

Both move with ease through any landscape, the crowded streets and plazas of famous cities, the isles of trains and old churches, gardens mysterious with fog, windswept beaches or boardwalks. Where will you take them?

Finished Dimensions

Anouk Bag

8 1/2" (21.25cm) wide across the front/back at bag bottom
5 1/2" (13.75cm) wide across the front/back at bag top
4" (10cm) deep
7" (17.5cm) tall from bottom to frame rod

Vianne Bag

14" (15cm) wide across the front/back at bag bottom
9 3/4" (24.25cm) wide across the front/back at bag top
6" (15cm) deep
14 1/2" (36.25cm) tall from bottom to frame rod

Pattern Difficulty

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

Gauge

Pre-felted gauge: 12 stitches and 16 rounds = 4" (10cm) in St st with a double-strand of worsted weight yarn.

Materials

Anouk and Vianne Hardware Kit includes:

6" (15cm, small) or 10" (25cm, large) purse frame
27" (68cm) purse chain (for Anouk)
Six Noni 24mm bag feet
Amazing Snap or Poseidon turnlock
11.25 x 13.5 in sheet of stiffener
1 Noni Design Label

Yarn Requirements

Anouk (small) Bag: 500 yds (457m)
Vianne (large) Bag: 1500 yds (914m)

Needles and Other Materials

Size 11 (8mm) 24" (60cm) circular needle
Tapestry needle & sewing needles
Nylon beading thread
Stitch markers

Pictured Samples

Each of the bags pictured was made using Stonehedge Fiber Mill Shepherd's Wool. Anouk is pictured in Orange. Vianne is pictured in Hot Pink.

The kit for the Anouk Bag includes all of the hardware needed to make the finished bags shown on the pattern cover: 

• 6" (15.24cm) Arc frame in shiny nickel 
• Amazing magnetic snap closure
• Six 24mm bag feet in matching finish
• Twenty Cabochon rivets in matching finish

NOTE: This kit also does not include stiffener: we recommend you use mat board to stiffen the bottoms of your bags and purses. The kit also does not include the pattern or the yarn -- please purchase separately!

What would a felted shoulder bag look like if it echoed the elegant arches, winding, narrow cobblestone streets, and timeless villas of Venice? With this question in mind, I designed the Week in Venice Satchel, a bag with an aesthetic that marries classic design with simple lines and an understanding that when form perfectly follows function something is as useful as it is beautiful.

Available in 2 sizes, this sleek, simple, elegant felted bag design is as easy to knit and finish as it is to carry. Its simplicity looks fabulous with blue jeans and pretty top, swingy frock, or classic winter coat. In muted neutrals, it can go effortlessly from Fall to Spring with most of your looks. Make it again in the colors of sorbet and it will go with you to the beach, to a party in Bermuda, or to the new restaurant across town.

Look at Additional Details below for information about dimensions, gauge, materials, and hardware kits.

Finished Dimensions

Small Bag:

10" (25cm) wide
4" (10cm) deep
14" (36cm) tall

Large Bag:

12" (30cm) wide
5" (13cm) deep
16" (41cm) tall

Pattern Difficulty

Intrepid Easy: Requires knowledge of knitting, purling, picking up stitches within the knitted fabric, knitting in the round, decreasing. Hand-sewing and riveting are required for the finishing process.

Gauge

Pre-felted gauge: 12 stitches and 16 rounds = 4" (10cm) in St st with a double-strand of worsted weight yarn.

Materials

One Week in Venice Hardware Kit is available and contains:

JUL Twin Cities 18" (46cm) handle
Noni Handle Brackets to attach handle to bag
Noni Eclair Turnlock
20-pack of Cabochon rivets in shiny nickel
Noni Design Label

Yarn Requirements

Small Bag: 850 yds (777m)
Large Bag: 1200 yds (1097m)

Needles and Other Materials

Size 11 (8mm) 24" (60cm) circular needle
Size 10 (6mm) needle for turnlock flap
Four stitch markers, one of a different color
Tapestry & sewing needles

Pictured Samples

Pictured samples were made in Stonehedge Fiber Mill Shepherd's Wool. The small sample was made in Milk Chocolate. The large sample was made with Shepherd's Wool in Midnight Lake.

This first of the Ella coats came into being after I made a felted coat for little girls. The striped pattern in the little girl's coat was inspired by the piled up mattresses in the Princess and the Pea story. I even sandwiched 3-dimensional green peas between the stripes. Because a felted garment must be made so much larger than the size it will become, I was able to wear the coat before it was felted. I was smitten with the fit of the unfelted coat and the first Ella Coat was born.

Ella is a body-skimming sweater coat for women with an A-line silhouette that is created by making the bodice first from the high waist to the shoulder. The advantage of starting here is that you ensure your coat fits perfectly before you finish the entire coat. A perfectly fitted bodice will ensure a beautifully fitting coat. Then pick up at the high waist and work the skirt, stopping when the coat is the desired length.

For a detailed tutorial on choosing colors for your coat, fitting the coat to your own body, adding beautiful details, including alternate ruffle edgings, consult the Ella Coat Knit-a-Long that was conducted through the Noni Blog.

Pattern Difficulty

Intrepid Easy: Requires knowledge of knitting, purling, picking up stitches within the knitted fabric, increasing, decreasing, knitting in the round, and some hand-sewing during the finishing process.

Gauge

18 sts and 24 rows over 4"/10cm in St st using worsted weight yarn on a size 9/5.5mm needle or size need to obtain gauge.

Yarn Requirements

Solid Coat

6-8 skeins worsted weight wool

Solid Coat with Colored Ruffle

Coat: 4-6 skeins worsted weight wool
Ruffle: 2-3 skeins worsted weight wool

Striped coats

2-3 skeins of color (A), 1 skein or 100-250 yds (91 - 230m) of every other color

Needles and Other Materials

Size 9 (5.5mm) 32" (80cm) or longer circular needles
Size 10 (6mm) needles
Size 10 J crochet hook
Row Counter (optional)
Locking stitch markers
Sewing needle and sewing thread
Velvet ribbon to line the plackets (2" (5cm) wide and twice the length of one placket)

Pictured Samples

Cover samples were made in Shepherd's Wool by Stonehedge Fiber Mill: the coat on the front cover was made in Plum with Lime Ruffles. The striped coat on the back cover of the pattern was made using the Ocean Coat strip pattern (see chart on pattern).