Takes 1/2 skein of Patons UpCountry and a 1/2 skein of Crystal Palace Fizz Stardust, or your choice of any chunky, feltable wool and eyelash yarn.

From the website:

The inspiration: I wanted a little teensy handbag to take out at night…just enough room for my ID, lipstick, small compact, money and keys. This bag needed to be something cute and decorative that could stay on my bod as the night and cocktails wore on, since I tend to be BOTH extremely paranoid about losing my handbag and also extremely ditzy and forgetful that I even own a handbag. Enter the bracelet bag, a perfect solution!

Ingredients:

• Yarn: 1/2 skein any chunky 100% wool yarn that can be felted (no superwash wool!) and 1/2 skein any eyelash, ribbon, or glittery yarn to jazz up the bag (optional)
• Needles: Size 13 needles, large-eye yarn needle, and regular sewing needle (and thread)
• Accessories: Two bangle bracelets for the handle ( I would use elastic bracelets because they might stretch out or break); cheesy afternoon movie
• Beverage Selection: Fresca

Pep Talk

The hard part of this recipe - which isn’t very hard at all, mind you - comes in the first few rows. You start knitting one end of the bag, making the tabs that will eventually fold over your bracelets. Then you increase stitches to make a triangle that leads to a plain rectangle, knit the rectangle, and start decreasing on the other end for the other tab. (Decreasing is so easy - you just knit 2 stitches together.)