{"id":67309,"date":"2025-08-06T06:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67309"},"modified":"2025-08-02T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T02:15:30","slug":"epp-balls-8-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/epp-balls-8-9\/","title":{"rendered":"EPP Balls #8 &#038; #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67308\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250724_214215_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67308\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250724_214215_wm-sm-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"VFW Play as EPP\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250724_214215_wm-sm-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250724_214215_wm-sm-621x1024.jpg 621w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250724_214215_wm-sm-768x1267.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250724_214215_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 85vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VFW Play as EPP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have been playing too many games on my phone at night. <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/la-pass-tiny-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Passacaglia<\/a> is languishing. My <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/needlepoint-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">needlepoint<\/a> project is languishing and my hands are hurting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It has<a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/finished-epp-ball-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> been awhile<\/a> since I made an EPP ball. I have two babies that would enjoy them, so I started two new ones. I thought it would be a good way to ease back into EPP and, possibly, La Passacaglia.<\/p>\n<p>I found a few more charm packs while I was searching for the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/lost-and-found-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Handbag Sampler last week<\/a> and decided to use one, Victoria Findlay Wolf&#8217;s Play fabric for the two balls. One of the reasons I chose that charm pack is that it included 24 squares, which is how many I need for two of the EPP balls. I didn&#8217;t want any leftover charm squares.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to baste all of the pentagons I need for the two projects last night. I can start sewing tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing too many games on my phone at night. La Passacaglia is languishing. My needlepoint project is languishing and my hands are hurting.&nbsp; It has been awhile since I made an EPP ball. I have two babies that would enjoy them, so I started two new ones. I thought it would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/epp-balls-8-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EPP Balls #8 &#038; #9&#8221;<\/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":[538],"tags":[209,316,268],"class_list":["post-67309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","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\/67309","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=67309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67312,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67309\/revisions\/67312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}