Blue Balls: Christmas Gift-making Craze Revisited

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Rebecca Fox

Blue balls for my sweetheart

In December, my sweetheart, hoping that I’d find a good use for it, gave me a favored blue sweater that, sadly, clothes moths had ruined. What to do, what to do with an old, moth-eaten sweater and a scrap wool stash? Ah, yes. Christmas ornaments! My ornaments are modified versions developed from the tutorials at these two links: The Purl Bee & My Desert Cottage. Izzy, the cat was very helpful in the gift-making melee. She kept track of everything for me: anything I was looking for was under the cat.

: Mom’s balls (as if she needs any).

: My nephew’s musical balls.

: A heart-shaped ball for my niece and her husband’s first Christmas.

: My SIL’s Balls. (Note to self: Her tree is bronzy-gold not silver.)

: Blue balls for my sweetheart.

: Stream-lining the ball-making process.

: I couldn’t have survived the holidays without my Lovely Assistant.

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4 Responses to Blue Balls: Christmas Gift-making Craze Revisited

Sara Martin says:

January 23, 2012 at 6:13 pm

Those are lovely! Great way to recycle.

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- Rebecca Fox says:
  
  January 23, 2012 at 6:25 pm
  
  Thanks so much, Sara!
  
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Lisa Yarost says:

January 23, 2012 at 8:28 pm

These turned out great! I love the photos. What would we do without our “assistants?”

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- Rebecca Fox says:
  
  January 23, 2012 at 10:25 pm
  
  I’d never be able to find anything if I didn’t have a cat to look under and I wouldn’t know it was break time if she didn’t try to play with me upon retrieval of said objects.
  
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