Ms Moneybags is a small but mighty project, you’ll practice lots of skills along the way and you can significantly vary the appearance with your stylistic choices.

A comprehensive video tutorial for Ms Moneybags is also available, purchase it here.

Ms Moneybags comes with multiple design options for the colourwork. Pick whichever you prefer or use the provided “blank” chart to invent your own design. You need a purse frame and some fabric to complete your bag, have fun choosing complimentary styles and colours to fit the theme of your knitted shell.

Materials

• 0.2 skein of Vintage Purls Tannahill yarn (100g/396m) in background colour.
• 0.2 skein of Vintage Purls Tannahill yarn (100g/396m) in foreground colour.
• 2.00mm needles or size that gives you gauge. Choose needles appropriate for your chosen method of knitting a small circumference in the round: Magic Loop, two circulars, or double point needles.
• Purse frame approximately 10cm wide, 4.5cm deep. Ensure the frame has holes on the front face for sewing into.
• A small quantity of felt or other non-fraying material and matching thread for lining. A 20cm (10î) square of felt will be adequate. You can use a quilting cotton or similar for the lining but you will need to allow extra so that you can hem your lining before installation. Alternatively you can fuse a light interfacing to the reverse of the fabric to stabilize it.
• A sharp needle for sewing your knitting into the frame. Ensure the head will fit through the holes in your frame and that the eye is big enough to accept your yarn.
• Pins or clips to help with assembly.
• A regular hand-sewing needle and thread to assemble the lining.
• A stitch marker.
• A scrap of waste yarn for a provisional cast on.
• A tapestry needle for weaving in yarn ends.

Gauge

40 stitches and 96 rows in 10cm in blocked Knubbly Tweed pattern.
40 stitches and 50 rows in 10cm in blocked stranded colourwork.

Size

This pattern is designed to fit a purse frame 10cm wide and 4.5cm deep.

The finished purse is about 9cm high and about 11cm wide.

This pattern debuted as instalment three of the Vintage Purls Winter Sock Yarn Club 2013. The pattern was revamped in 2025.