spheres...

OK, so here is my "soccer ball" in progress, an odd, knobby affair with pointed sticks and glowing green rubber ends.
Now I am in the stuffing stage, and hope to post the finished object very soon indeed.
I learned a lot doing this project, and feel very confident about making all kinds of 3d structures.
However, this project was likened by it's author on the site "needle exchange" as being "the Garfield the Cat of Knitting projects", translated, this means it's easy and great for the very lazy among us. I am not lazy but am, apparently quite stupid: I had to redo constantly on this- I would blithely knit up a 5 sided shape when a 6 sider was needed, etc....
this is luxuriously knit in hand spun hand dyed goods from "Done Rovin'" farms in Maine- the dark red is wool, the Monet colored hexagons are silk and alpaca. The wool was nice, but the real reason for the silk and alpaca becomes clear the minute it's on the sticks: it glides and flows like water cascading, and it pure tactile poetry on the fingers....



This picture shows it semi-stuffed- I ran out of cotton balls mid way.
It has, as you can see, a charming sputnik-like quality, pointy but not terribly fierce.