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C June 05
Citrus Punch Handbag
Design by Nancy Nehring
Punch Handbag
Skill Level
ng #10315-54
Intermediate
titch figures 1-4
Finished Size
10 inches tall x 12 inches across,
not including Handle
June 05
Materials
Punch Handbag
• Coats & Clark Red Heart Kids
#10315-54medium (worsted) weight yarn:
5 oz/302 yds/141g #2652 lime
ch figures
1-4
1 oz/60 yds/28.2g #2001 white
• Size G/6/4mm crochet hook or size
needed to obtain gauge
• Size G/6/4mm afghan hook or size
needed to obtain gauge
• Tapestry needle

Gauge
G crochet hook: 7 sc = 2 inches; 8 sc
rows = 2 inches
G afghan hook: 4 knit sts = 1 inch; 4
knit st rows = 1 inch

Pattern Note
Join with a slip stitch unless otherwise
stated.
&IG 
Special Stitches
Work loops off hook (work lps off
hook): Yo, pull through 1 lp on hook
(see Fig. 1), [yo, pull through 2 lps
on hook (see Fig. 2)] across leaving
1 lp on hook at end of row.
&IG 
Afghan knit stitch (knit): Sk first vertical
&IG bar, insert hook between front and
back vertical bar and &IGunder
 horizontal
bar of next st (see Fig. 3), yo, pull lp Handbag Side lps rem on hook.
through, knit across to last vertical bar; Make 2. Row 6: Sk first vertical bar, knit
for last st, insert hook under last bar Row 1: With lime, ch 20, pull up lp in across; work lps off hook until 12
and st directly behind it (see Fig. 4), yo, 2nd ch from hook and in each ch lps rem on hook.
pulllp through; work lps off hook.
&IG across (20 lps on hook); work lps off Row 7: Sk first vertical bar, knit
&IG hook until 2 lps rem on hook. across; work lps off hook until 14
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&IG  Row 2: Sk first vertical bar, knit (see lps rem on hook.
Special Stitches) across; work lps Row 8: Sk first vertical bar, knit
off hook (see Special Stitches) until across; work lps off hook until 16
4 lps rem on hook, lps rem on hook.
Row 3: Sk first vertical bar, knit Row 9: Sk first vertical bar, knit
across; work lps off hook until 6 lps across; work lps off hook until 18
&IG 
rem on hook. lps rem on hook.
&IG  Row 4: Sk first vertical bar, knit Row 10: Sk first vertical bar, knit 2,
&IG 
&IG  across; work lps off hook until 8 lps work sts off hook until 2 sts rem on
rem on hook. hook.
Row 5: Sk first vertical bar, knit Rows 11–100: Rep rows 2–10
across; work lps off hook until 10 consecutively.

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Row 101: Sk first vertical bar, knit across;
work all lps off hook. Fasten off.
Centers
Rnd 1: With G crochet hook and white,
ch 4, sl st in beg ch to form ring, ch
1, 7 sc in ring, join in beg sc. (7 sc)
Rnd 2: Ch 1, 2 sc in each st around,
join in beg sc. (14 sc)
Rnd 3: For spokes, [ch 21, sl st in 2nd
ch from hook and in each ch across,
sc in next sc on rnd 2] 12 times, sc
in each of last 2 sts, join in beg sc.
(12 spokes)
Rnd 4: Working through both
thicknesses of beg ch on first
spoke and in sts of last row on 1
Handbag Side, ch 1, sc in each st
across; working in ends of rows on
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Handbag Side, sc in tip of spoke
and first 2 rows on Handbag Side,
[sc in next 7 rows on Handbag Side
only, sc through both thicknesses
of next spoke tip and each of next 2
rows of Handbag] 11 times, working
through both thicknesses of last
spoke and Handbag Side, sc in
each st across to center, sc in each
of next 2 sts on center, join in beg
sc. Fasten off. (143 sc)
Rnd 5: Join lime with sc in first st, sc
in each st around with 3 sc in each
corner, join in beg sc. fasten off.
Sew center to center of Handbag Side.
Rep center on other Handbag Side.
Handle
Rnd 1: With G crochet hook and lime,
ch 175, join in first ch to form ring,
ch 1, sc in each ch around, do not
join. (175 sc)
Rnds 2–7: Sc in each st around,
do not join.
Rnd 8: Sc in each st around, join in
beg sc. Fasten off.
For joining, working through both
thicknesses of handle and Handbag
Side, with G crochet hook and lime,
join in center st of left-hand 3-sc
group on rnd 5 of Center, sc in each
st across bottom of Handbag to
center st of next 3-sc group on rnd 5
of Center. Fasten off.
Working in corresponding sts, rep
on other side of handle and other
Handbag Side.