Crafting in the Time of Corona IX

In an earlier post I wrote about taking a look at my embroidery books before I began my first Time of Corona cross stitch embroidery project. I remembered that one of my older books had directions for a felt ball and I decided to make one for each of my twin grandnieces. I thought the book had a photograph of a ball but I must have been remembering an actual ball I’d seen somewhere (perhaps at my Northampton nephew’s) because the book only had some limited directions.

The directions didn’t include a pattern or even a size suggestion for the pentagons so I took a guess and downloaded what was labeled a 3 inch pentagon from a website. I also did some searching and read some posts and watched a video on assembling the shapes to make a ball. The book shows circular embroidery designs which proved to be pretty difficult for me. The pentagons became more like individual samplers of different stitches from the books and designs inspired by embroidery pieces I’ve seen on Instagram.

When I mentioned my embroidery books earlier (Crafting in the Time of Corona III) I wrote about the book “Hoopla” and my introduction to Mr. X Stitch and how I got an idea for my first Nero Wolfe cover cross stitch from the cover of his magazine. I also wrote to him about it and he printed my letter in his next issue and sent me an electronic copy.

I don’t think anyone would want to print a picture of my felt balls and rudimentary embroidery in a magazine (I think I should stick with counted cross stitch in the future) but I had fun trying things out and I think my tiny grandnieces will find them entertaining (as my friend Barbara would say).