Pack up your troubles in your new knit bag and smile, smile, smile! With so many textured effects in this stylish number, you can’t help but grin from ear to ear.

Yarn: DK, tweed, six 50g (135m) balls

Needles: 4.5m

Cable needle

Popper

Button: 2.5cm

Fabric: bag lining, 39cm x 63cm; pocket lining, 18cm square

Wadding: 39cm x 63cm

Interfacing: 15cm square

Tapestry needle

Tension Square: 23 sts x 25 rows = 10cm x 10cm in cable pattern with yarn held double using 4.5mm needles