sew is your face!

i wanted my balls to be different so i used three pieces of felted wool sewn together to make a football shape. i stuffed them with wool scraps and sewed them closed and then begun using them.

i have to say, THEY TOTALLY SUCKED!!

i definitely made some major misteaks the first time around but it taught me how to make them better, my way. and that’s pretty much how i do everything: trial and error. i’m a big fan of that.

anyway, the first set weren’t hard enough to get the job done. just stuffing the scraps inside the mini wool football wasn’t enough. i should have wrapped wool yarn around the scraps making a super tight ball before stuffing it in the cover. see how soft it is:

so, to fix them i wrapped wool yarn around the old football until it was hard as a rock.

then i made a new cover, shoved the hard ball inside and hand sewed it closed.

now they’re shaped more like  mango seeds but they work great! see, hard as a rock:

the only problem i have now is that because they are made of wool, my dog thinks they are for him!