A dear friend from Virginia is getting ready to have her second baby. In other words, an excuse to sew and craft! I suppose I used a variety of materials for this gift -- leather, wood, linen, and silicone.
I'd wanted to try making one of these balls for some time, and now I had the perfect opportunity. It's simply 12 pentagons stitched together. Construction gets a bit confusing, and it's a LOT of seaming -- but I love the result. The size of the pentagons will (obviously) determine the size of the ball, and I love that you can make it as big or as small as you want. I literally made a pentagon shape in Microsoft Word, copied it 11 times, and printed it out.
My friend had pacifier leashes on her registry, so I dipped into my wood and silicone bead stash to make one:
I also included a Baby Believer board book (which I just discovered, and absolutely love!), and Gloria Furman's Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full (a favorite of mine when I'm in need of Biblical encouragement as a mom -- which is always).
A little handcrafted love to welcome this new, little God-crafted life!
These are beautiful! I'd love to try to make the ball for my niece. Microsoft is very helpful for simple patterns, I found a leaf shape to make my sister leather leaf earrings like those Joanna Gaines often wears.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Livia Rachelle! Fabric balls are a great way to use up tiny scraps -- I made another with a blend of linen, leather, felted wool, and chambray.
DeleteLeather leaf earrings sound lovely, by the by. :-)
Cheers,
Shannon