What do you do with all those leftover balls of yarn?
Make a Magic Ball. Join different colors, textures and fibers together and make a unique ball of yarn for a special project or delightful toy. All the choices are yours:
Bring yarn from your stash or use amazing donated yarn.
Choose the colors and textures that please your imagination.
Learn the Magic Knot technique for strong but nearly invisible join.
Required advance work: None
Experience required: None
Techniques covered: Magic Knot for joining yarn
Supplies to bring: Bring a tapestry needle if you want to learn the Russian join. Bring leftover yarn that you want to turn into a magic ball. Bring extra oddments of yarn to swap and share. Bring a scale if you have one, it helps to weigh out the yarn to calculate amount needed for patterns. Small shawls (3 S shawl, for example) and hats are excellent projects for a magic ball, check out ravelry for inspiration.
We have donated yarn that can be used to add to the variety.
Instructor: Barbara Rottman
This hat was made with a Magic Ball.
It is the Magic Scraps Hat designed by Christiane Burkhard, available as a free Ravelry download.
Betty K. Ulanski knit it for Community Projects.
Photo by Rae Sprague.
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