Post #13: Knitted Dodecahedron Ball

     I've mentioned the website Ravelry in a previous post. Fairly soon after I learned to knit I saw a pattern on there called "Celestine" which is a knitted dodecahedron (10-sided object) that was done all in white. It would have made a fantastic Christmas ornament. It looked so complicated to me I thought I would never in a million years be able to make something like that, but I saved the pattern to my favorites on Ravelry anyway. I think it was the very first pattern I ever saved there, it was so long ago.
     A lot of time has passed, and an awful lot of yarn has made its way into my shopping cart, my knitting bag, and wound itself around my needles since then. Earlier this summer I came across the same pattern on Ravelry, but this one was done using a self-striping sock yarn, and was called "Celestine Sox" (Sox is the name of the Berroco Brand yarn that was used in the sample). I thought, "I've always wanted to make that, maybe now I should give it a try."
     I have no idea which brand of sock yarn I used to make the one you see below. I know I purchased it in Tennessee about 7 or 8 years ago and when I decided to finally make this project, this ball of yarn was sitting in my night table drawer. We have moved a lot since returning to Florida and each time that silly ball of sock yarn stayed by my side, never geting lost in the shuffle of moving and rearranging, maybe for just this purpose.

 

 

     I had lots of fun working on this project. The first section and beginning the second section was the hardest, but a dear friend helped me out when I got stuck. Once I got it figured out I realized that it was actually quite simple. It's one of those things that looks much harder than it actually is.

     It is about 5-1/2" across, and if I had thought of it sooner I might have added a squeaky or some bells inside, so it could be a pet toy. There I go again, thinking up more projects; imagine that!

 

Finding peace in creativity,

 

Meryl