Yesterday while pondering if I wanted to redo the kitty body, I was doing a bit of reading through patterns and one of them said ' If you can make a ball, you can make this'. I have never crocheted a ball so I thought maybe it's time.
I did make a few mods on this kitty. I shortened the legs by one round and I made the tail differently. I used a simple 20 stitch chain (or 14. I can't remember) and then slipped stitch back. It gave his wee tail the littlest bit of curl naturally.
I have no idea how to actually make a ball. Most of my crochet, ok, all of my crochet has been flat, not structural. I made baskets once but still. I used the pattern A Large Fluffy Stress Ball by Maegatrons Market, a free on Ravelry and made only one change. With the Blanket yarn, I found I needed to use eight stitches to make the right shape at the start. Six stitches would have been great if you wanted a football. That probably has more to do with my tension and personal crochet gauge than anything else. I stuffed it with what I had on hand, ahem, the remainders of the yarn from last years blankets.
I decided to just keep going on the kitty. This is just the test kitty and I wanted to see it all complete.
I am thrilled.
Because of the yarn choice he is about 8 inches long without the tail. Its a really cute pattern and now I have to do it again with Marcus' yarn for a kitty that looks like his beloved Casper.
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