Braided knitted ball for charity pattern – children love these!
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Braided blue comfort ball
This is a darling knitted ball that is easy to make. Make 2 – keep one for yourself and give the other to charity!
These are hand knitted – here are the instructions from ravelry.com – if you don’t belong, sign up – it’s free and full of wonderful people and patterns.
These balls are called ‘comfort balls’ and the children in hospital, homeless shelters and crisis centers love the soft toys. Â So do the adults 
If you want to make them for your local animal shelter, you can put a jingle bell inside of the ball inside of a plastic container like the clear balls that knee highs from Wal Mart come in. Â We don’t recommend bells inside of the ones going to children because of the choking hazard.
This is a perfect project for all the scrap yarn you have left over!.
We could really use donations of yarn to help us make these comfort toys. If you would like to share your stash with us, please mail donations to:
Relief Share
6200 N River Pointe Dr C208,
Boise, Idaho 83714
All donations are tax deductible, please include your email address so we can thank you
President Carol C Green
info@ReliefShare.org
7 Comments
July 25th, 2011 at 7:14 AM
Thank you for this pattern. It is great to find patterns for machines.
I want some for the Nursery at Church.
Are these to be used as washing machine balls too? Thank you xxx
July 25th, 2011 at 1:47 PM
Glad to share the pattern
They would be super to have in the nursery at church. Children and adults, both, love these. They are even more fun with variegated yarns and it’s great for using up scrap yarns left over from other projects.
They won’t work for the dryer balls, though, they are not heavy enough or hard enough. There is no stuffing in them – they are deliberately made softer so they don’t hurt anyone if a child gets bonked with one. The dryer ball pattern is on our blog under crochet but you can make dryer ball covers by knitting a doily and leaving out stitches so it curves and whipstitching two curved doilies (concave) over a ball of yarn – make sure it is wool, though.
July 29th, 2011 at 6:42 AM
Thank you for the pattern and the instructions, BUT, I can’t work out the way to weave in the 3rd strip. Sorry for being so dense. xxx
July 29th, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Hi Laurelbee,
I had the same problem when I first started knitting the braided balls. Following the pattern on ravelry.com I took strips of paper and carefully labeled them 1 2 3 4 5 6 and then glued them together to see how the ball was made. Then I squared them by folding the paper like a box so it would stand on the table as a reference when I was making the ball. It took a couple of tries, but I got it and can now make the balls easily
Good luck,
Hugs
Carol Green
Relief Share
President
November 6th, 2011 at 1:30 AM
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