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When You Wish Upon Dingleball...

5/9/2012

What can you do with dingleballs?!?!

Well, I'm cultivating a Pinterest board just for you. It has a few great ideas for knitting & sewing patterns along with some crafty things like flowers and garland. Pop on over and check it out!

Once you've used your kit, just about all of the yarns I sell will be perfect for making dingleballs. I'm spinning up some new colors for an update later this month to inspire your muse. :)

Source: etsy.com via Gwen on Pinterest

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Dingleballs, dingleballs, dingle all the way!

4/27/2012

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Making dingleballs. Some with, some without haircuts.

"Oh what fun

it is to make

some

dingleballs

today,

Hey!"

Yes, I do make up my own lyrics to songs. It's a family tradition. I was singing about dingleballs to the tune of Jinglebells. Kinda fun, huh? Yeah, I thought so.

I've been saving this bag of yarn scraps for ages. On 4th of July, I blogged about making potholders from my leftover dreadlocks making days (see pics below) and knitting project scraps. That project wasn't enough to satisfy. Besides, I had lots of different colored scraps. I needed a way to pull all the colors together. And they weren't really colors that I typically worked with. I'm a bright and bold color girl normally. But these colors were soft, muted and nature toned. I do love those colors and enjoy working with them, but they're not usually my first grab from the yarn or fiber basket.

Then, my mom found this color work style, ready-to-wear, sweater with some crazy long fringe all round it. When I say long fringe, I mean long... 4". I looked at her like, "Uh, what do you want to wear this for?" She said, "Dingleballs!" Oh. my. goodness. That woman is amazing. The sweater was perfect and already had holes in it, from the fringe, that would be perfect for tying on a few dingleballs.
So I took the sweater home and dug through my bag o scrappy goodness. Wonder of wonders, all these leftovers that didn't have a purpose or a project all of a sudden fit the sweater perfectly. Various shades of blues & purples (dusty to royal), tans and browns, and a variety of olive greens including a few forest green. I even used some of the fringe (it had polyester in it though, ick!) to make itsy bitsy dingleballs.

I made dingleballs using the tool from my kits. But, I wanted to have big and small dingleballs. I thought that would give the sweater some character. I do love the wee kit tool, but, the tools aren't offered in any size smaller than 3/4 inch. I recently learned on Pinterest how to make a dingleball using a fork. Using a fork doesn't give the same uniformity that the pom pom tool does. but the dingleballs are still super cute! Below are a few photos of the finished sweater. I think it would be adorable with a belt and a fun olive colored skirt instead of my amy butler tunic. ;)

Kits will be posted to my etsy shop this weekend. So you too can make your own amazing dingleballs.

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When You Wish Upon Dingleball...

Dingleballs, dingleballs, dingle all the way!

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Gwen Gyldenege

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When You Wish Upon Dingleball...

Dingleballs, dingleballs, dingle all the way!

Author: Gwen Gyldenege

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Gwen Gyldenege