{"id":44606,"date":"2019-01-16T07:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=44606"},"modified":"2019-01-16T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:41:23","slug":"gift-post-9-juggling-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/gift-post-9-juggling-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Post #9: Juggling Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Three<\/a>
Three juggling balls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Juggling<\/a>
Juggling Balls in the drawstring bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You have seen a few posts about these juggling balls<\/a> in the past few weeks. Well, I finally finished them. I didn’t get them done in time to give them to my niece for Christmas, but oh well. I am still pretty pleased with the way they came out and I am thinking about making another set.<\/p>\n

As previously mentioned, I got the idea for the balls from All Points Patchwork<\/a>, a comprehensive guide on English paper piecing. I wrote a review<\/a> about it recently.<\/p>\n

\"Juggling<\/a>
Juggling Balls drawstring bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn’t want to just hand over 3 balls, so I looked for a bag to make in which they could be stored. Quickly, I remembered the drawstring bag by Jeni Baker<\/a> of In Color Order<\/a>. I found the tutorial<\/a>, but after working through it a little I found some missing information. After some investigation I was forwarded to another version of the tutorial<\/a>. In fairness, Baker sells a pattern for this drawstring bag with several size variations. I believe I bought it at one point, but wasn’t able to put my hands on the pattern<\/a> quickly. The size (approx 10.5″ x 8.5″) in the tutorial was fine for my purposes. Perhaps a little big, but fine.<\/p>\n

\"Juggling<\/a>
Juggling Balls drawstring bag-3\/4 view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had a bunch of the mini-charm packs of Prairie by Moda, which is what I used to make the juggling balls. I used more of them to make the bag with a Barbara Jones peach dot print for the accent and the lining. I am not sure I would make patchwork again for the bag, though if I had some orphan blocks I might use them. It would be quicker and more elegant to use two or three fabrics. Still, what I made is kind of cheerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You have seen a few posts about these juggling balls in the past few weeks. Well, I finally finished them. I didn’t get them done in time to give them to my niece for Christmas, but oh well. I am still pretty pleased with the way they came out and I am thinking about making … Continue reading “Gift Post #9: Juggling Balls”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[209,316,268],"class_list":["post-44606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-english-paper-piecing","tag-gifts","tag-toys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}