Knitted Purse
This pattern for a knitted purse comes courtesy of Operation Christmas Child and is popular with us Knit and Natterers as not only do we knit lots of them for Christmas Shoeboxes but also it uses up those oddments of yarn that are not big enough for anything else. They can be filled with a packet of tissues or chocolate and given as presents, or just kept in your handbag.
Materials
Oddments of double knitting yarn in two colours
Needles size 4mm and 6mm
Button
Using 4mm needles and 1st colour cast on 18sts
Knit 4 rows in garter stitch
Next row: make buttonhole by K8, cast off 2sts, K8
Next row: K8, cast on 2sts, knit to end.
Work 4 more rows in garter stitch, join in 2nd colour.
Change to 6mm needles, knitting with two colours together, knit another 30rows in garter stitch
Break off 2nd colour and change to 4mm needles
Knitting with first colour, knit 10 rows garter stitch, cast off.
Fold work in half and stitch up side seams, add button opposite buttonhole.
Jill Fenby-Taylor (Whissendine 207)
For more information about the Shoebox Appeal visit http://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child