Over the weekend the weather turned very cold and we saw our first snow flurries. With it, brought a whole bunch of children up to my house for an afternoon of felt ball making.
Use a variety of colors of roving. Make a bowl of hot soapy water: 3 tbsp of clear dishwashing soap to 4 cups of hot water.
First you take the wool roving and you squish it into a ball. Then start rolling until it is a ball. Start wrapping little bits of roving around your ball, dip it back into the hot soapy water, and keep rolling.
Keeping rolling and dipping until you have balls that look like these. You can make them any size you want. Once you have your ball felted at your desired size, rinse it under cold water and let it dry.
These are juggling balls for a special friend. All of this is being done as part of our handmade holiday being hosted by Tonya over at Plain and Joyful Living. Head on over and see what everyone else is up to.
