Loom knit play balls
I made a ball after following the link on the LoomaHat (very good) website to http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/loomed-ball.html and I posted a photo of it in the September Challenge discussion. It got a really positive response from other Forum members, who comment that a ball is a good educational toy, so I thought I would flag it up here too. All you loom knitters will be able to make a ball like this in well under an hour, just like I did! I would recommend using self-multi-coloured yarn, or two strands of different colours, because if you do, you won't "read" the sewing up of the bottom of the ball in particular.
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Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on
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I'm only getting into looming now and this is a super pattern! I am definitely giving this one a good go the moment I'm finished with the navy scarves challenge. I'd love to send some balls to Africa!
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What I like best about this is that a polyester stuffed ball is lightweight and easy to mail, ie. not expensive. It might not bounce but it can be tossed and rolled!
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How many rows did you do to avoid making a sausage instead of a ball?
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Permalink Reply by Lucy Wallace on
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Sorry for my continued absence from Forum discussions - I am still very involved in the care of two family members who became ill a while back. Re the loom-knit ball, I know that I have close-up photos of the balls I made which would enable me to count up the number of rows I did, but they are on my old computer, so I will have a search and get back to you when I've found them. I basically worked as if I was making a hat, but sewed up both ends which created the ball shape. All the very best, Lucy
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Having checked on my old computer, I believe I did somewhere between 15 and 20 rows, using the "2 wrap over 1 wrap" method of creating each row (to make it thick enough so the filling didn't come through). To get the basic shape, I followed a brimless hat pattern like Denise demonstrates in the following YouTube video, and left a "tail' at least 6 inches long when I was casting on so that I could sew up the "open" end of the hat once I had put the filling in.
http://youtu.be/da_VDGUNndo
Hope this helps.
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