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Knit this fancy holiday handbag for your favorite little girl.

Skill level
beginning

Finished size
6 1/2 x 7 1/2, excluding beard and shoulder strap

materials
TLC Cotton Plus Medium (Worsted) Yarn (3.5 oz / 186 yards / 100 g per skein)
1 skein of each No. 3907 of red, No. 3100 of cream and No. 3001 of white
Crochet size G / 6/4 mm or size required to obtain a caliber
Gobelin needle
12 mm blue buttons: 2
Red pencil
3-inch piece of cardboard
measuring device
4 sc = 1 inch; 4 lines sc = 1 inch

Note template
Weaving at loose ends as work progresses.
Join the slip stitch rounds unless otherwise noted.

Purse Front
Row 1 (WS): with cream, ch 26, sc in the 2nd ch from the hook, sc in each belt across, turn. (25 sc)
Row 2: Ch 1, sc in each sc across, turn.
Rows 3-14: Repeat row 2. Secure at the end of row 14.
Line 15: draw lp white, ch 1, sc in the same st as beg ch-1, [dc in the next sc, sc in the next sc] across, rotate.
Line 16: Ch 1, dc in the first sc, [sc in the next dc, dc in the next sc] across, turning.
Line 17: Ch 1, sc in the first dc, [dc in the next sc, sc in the next dc] across, turn.
Row 18: Repeat row 16, secure.
Row 19: draw lp in red, ch 1, sc at each intersection, turn.
Rows 20-32: Rep Row 2.
Secure at the end of row 32.

Facial features
Sew the blue buttons between rows 9 and 10 for the eyes, leaving 5 scts between the buttons in the center.
With the length of red, embroider with your mouth in the center under the eyes above rows 5 and 6.
With red pencil, colored cheeks.

Wallet Back
Line 1 (WS): with red, ch 26, sc in the 2nd ch from the hook, sc in each horizontal horizontally, turn. (25 sc)
Row 2: Ch 1, sc in each sc across, turn.
Lines 3-32: Rep line 2.
Line 33: Ch 1, sc dec in the next 2 sc, sc in each sc across to the last 2 sc, sc dec in the next 22 sc, turn. (23 sc)
Line 34: Ch 1, works in back lps only for this line, sc in each of the next 21 sts, sc dec in the next 2 sts, move. (22 sc)
Line 35: Ch 1, sc dec in the next 2 sc, sc in each rem sc across, rotation. (21 sc)
Line 36: Ch 1, sc in each sc up to the last 2 sc, sc dec in the next 2 sc, turn. (20 pc)
Rows 37-54: Rep lines 35 and 36. At the end of row 54, fasten. (2 pc)

joining
Rnd 1: Holding the front and back parts of the WS tog wallet on the front side, attach the red to the side edge of the 33rd row of Back (dec edge), ch 1, sc in the same row as beg ch-1, sc in each row by dec from edge to hat point, work 3 sc in row 54, sc in each row from Back to row 33, work with both thicknesses, sc in each row changes color to white after the last red row, work 6 sc through the white section , continue with white, starting beard, [sc in the next row, ch 5, 3 sc in the 2nd ch from the hook, 3 sc in each of the next 3 chs, sc in each of the next 2 rows] 18 times, working 3 sc in each lower y Glu Purse, sc through the white portion of the hat, change to red, sc in each row of the rem, join the plead sc, fasten.

Pom pom
Wrap the white yarn 80 times around cardboard. Pass a white strip under the strands and tie it with a bundle, cut off the opposite ends, whisk, cut the ends to shape the Pompon. Sew a pompon to a dot hat.

Epaulet
Row 1: with red, ch 131, dc in 4th ch from the hook, dc in each rem ch through.
Row 2: Fold row 1 in half, insert the hook into the first direct current and the opposite side of the base ch and perform sl st, [insert the hook into the next direct current and the next ch of the base ch and complete sl st across, fasten.
Sew a pen to each side of the wallet.