electrathon Posted May 7, 2012 Report Posted May 7, 2012 Attached is a picture of a leather ball I have been working on. I looked for a long time to find a pattern and finally decided to cut apart a ball, tweak it a little, clean it up and go from there. Aaron ball .pdf Quote
Phatdaddy Posted May 7, 2012 Report Posted May 7, 2012 (edited) Attached is a picture of a leather ball I have been working on. I looked for a long time to find a pattern and finally decided to cut apart a ball, tweak it a little, clean it up and go from there. Aaron Aaron, That's very cool, I make my daughter little trinkets all the time, but I was wondering what i could make for 2 yo son that would be suitable for a boy. I think this is it! Thanks a ton for sharing. Kevin ps. What did you use for the filling/stuffing? Edited May 7, 2012 by Phatdaddy Quote
electrathon Posted May 7, 2012 Author Report Posted May 7, 2012 Aaron, That's very cool, I make my daughter little trinkets all the time, but I was wondering what i could make for 2 yo son that would be suitable for a boy. I think this is it! Thanks a ton for sharing. Kevin ps. What did you use for the filling/stuffing? Kevin, I had some spongy blanket material that I cut up into little pieces. I just kept stuffing till it got firm, then sewed the last two inches shut. Aaron Quote
Tinneal Posted May 7, 2012 Report Posted May 7, 2012 Great work! I wonder if it would work to stuff it full of of straw like they do with horse collars. Quote Leatherwork Portfolio | Etsy Shop
Members mrdabeetle Posted May 7, 2012 Members Report Posted May 7, 2012 I recently found this: http://www.jugglingd...ngpatterns.html I made this leather covered bottle with it. This is the 3 section, 3" ball pattern Quote
electrathon Posted May 7, 2012 Author Report Posted May 7, 2012 I recently found this: http://www.jugglingd...ngpatterns.html I made this leather covered bottle with it. This is the 3 section, 3" ball pattern Those look like round bottom boiling flasks. Quote
Members mrdabeetle Posted May 8, 2012 Members Report Posted May 8, 2012 (edited) I got them for a dollar each at Michael's. Wal-mart has some similar ones with etching on the "globe" section. You may find this interesting. Edited May 8, 2012 by mrdabeetle Quote
Members Sylvia Posted May 8, 2012 Members Report Posted May 8, 2012 reminds me of the old school leather hacky sacks. I think they were filled with sand or small beans These days I dont' think you could find a leather hackysack... it's all hemp, cotton or faux suede. Quote A teacher pointed at me with a ruler and said "At the end of this ruler is an idiot." I got detention when I asked "Which end?"
electrathon Posted May 9, 2012 Author Report Posted May 9, 2012 (edited) I got them for a dollar each at Michael's. Wal-mart has some similar ones with etching on the "globe" section. You may find this interesting. http://vimeo.com/19706420 I do like the look of the covered round bottles. Round bottom boiling flask is out of the TV series Breaking Bad, was not sure if anyone would recognize it. reminds me of the old school leather hacky sacks. I think they were filled with sand or small beans These days I dont' think you could find a leather hackysack... it's all hemp, cotton or faux suede. I few of the kids that I teach Electrathons with wanted me to teach them to make Hacki Sacks. Not sure in any of them are willing to work hard enough to actually sew one though. After about 10 minutes they will want to go to the store and buy one. Edited May 9, 2012 by electrathon Quote
Members Sylvia Posted May 9, 2012 Members Report Posted May 9, 2012 That's why you break up your time into segments. 10 minutes "today we are doing this" 10 minutes.. "here's how you do it" 20 minutes "practice and trouble shooting" 20 minutes "clean up and review/ how did you do?" Your hyper kids aren't too bored and the ones who want to do it... will sit and work as fast as they can. Gosh I just flashed on a program I truly believed was ran by Jim Henson of Muppet fame. We had a puppet making workshop...LOL It was fun and I had that puppet for a long time. Quote A teacher pointed at me with a ruler and said "At the end of this ruler is an idiot." I got detention when I asked "Which end?"
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