{"id":67419,"date":"2025-08-16T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67419"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:11:52","slug":"epp-ball-8-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/epp-ball-8-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"EPP Ball #8 Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67441\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_135546_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67441\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_135546_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"EPP Ball #8, one side\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_135546_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_135546_wm-sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_135546_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EPP Ball #8, one side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finished the eighth EPP ball and will send it off to the owner next week.<\/p>\n<p>I had hoped that this would get me back to <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/la-pass-tiny-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Pass<\/a>, but so far it hasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The Beanie Baby pellets kind of gathered on one side, so it doesn&#8217;t roll very well. I have been trying to move them, but they are proving stubborn. I have to rethink how I fill these in future. I like the Beanie Baby pellets to provide some weight, but be evenly distributed. I am not sure what happened this time.<\/p>\n<p>I do like these little balls and can make them very quickly for friends&#8217; babies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-67419 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20250803_135509_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_135509_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"EPP Ball #8\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-67440\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-67440'>\n\t\t\t\tEPP Ball #8\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20250803_135537_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_135537_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"EPP Ball #8\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-67439\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-67439'>\n\t\t\t\tEPP Ball #8\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20250803_135558_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_135558_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"EPP Ball #8\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-67430\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-67430'>\n\t\t\t\tEPP Ball #8\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the eighth EPP ball and will send it off to the owner next week. I had hoped that this would get me back to La Pass, but so far it hasn&#8217;t. The Beanie Baby pellets kind of gathered on one side, so it doesn&#8217;t roll very well. I have been trying to move &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/epp-ball-8-finished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EPP Ball #8 Finished&#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-67419","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\/67419","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=67419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67491,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67419\/revisions\/67491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}