{"id":22111,"date":"2022-06-30T14:57:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=22111"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:40:19","slug":"free-pattern-amigurumi-beach-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/free-pattern-amigurumi-beach-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"free pattern: Amigurumi Beach Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amigurumi Beach Ball is a fun <strong>no-sew<\/strong> pattern for summer &#8211; or for any time of year! <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a play ball for the kids, a set of juggling balls, or a stress ball to play with at your desk.<\/li>\n<li>Make it interactive by adding a squeaker, rattle or bell when you stuff it.<\/li>\n<li>Stuff it with plastic pellets to make your ball into a bean bag or hacky sack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/beachball2.jpg\" alt=\"Amigurumi Beach Ball crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For this pattern, crisp colour changes are essential, and I&#8217;ve come up with a special new technique (a variant of my invisible increase) that makes the colour changes look extra neat at the increase points, plus I&#8217;ve included lots of tips for dealing with the yarn as you go &#8211; there&#8217;s no cutting or knot-tying required!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/beachball3.jpg\" alt=\"Amigurumi Beach Ball crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This pattern is great for using up scraps of brightly-coloured yarn! You can choose any 6 colours of yarn for this pattern, and the main colour you choose will also be the colour of the top and bottom circles on the beach ball.  I made my main beach ball (above) in light worsted weight yarns (Bernat Satin and Red Heart Soft) with an E US\/3.5mm hook, using &#8216;classic beach ball&#8217; saturated colours. <\/p>\n<p>I also made a second beach ball (below, left) from Patons Grace, a sport weight mercerized cotton, with a C US\/2.75mm hook and whatever colours I happened to have in my stash. This gave me a slightly smaller ball (2.5&#8243; vs 2.75&#8243;), and I love how it looks in the cotton too! <\/p>\n<p>Both balls are a great size for playing with, juggling, etc.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/beachball1.jpg\" alt=\"Amigurumi Beach Ball crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And can I just mention that I designed this pattern very carefully, so the bottom of the ball looks just as good as the top! Look:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/beachball4.jpg\" alt=\"Amigurumi Beach Ball crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><em>Yep, these are the bottoms of the balls! They look good from all sides \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I like to reward people who choose to donate for my donationware patterns, the PDF version of the Amigurumi Beach Ball pattern also includes additional tips and photos that you&#8217;ll only find in the PDF version (including instructions for how to fix any too-tight stitches on your finished ball), and the crochet instructions are all included on <strong>one<\/strong> printer-friendly page, so you can save paper and ink by printing only that page. <\/p>\n<p>As always, the pattern is free for you to use online, and you need only donate if you&#8217;d like to thank me for my time in creating it, or if you&#8217;d like the easy-to-print PDF version with the bonuses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/free-crochet-patterns\/amigurumi-beach-ball\/\">Go to the free Amigurumi Beach Ball pattern &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or jump straight to donate:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&#038;cPath=26&#038;products_id=396\">Order the Amigurumi Beach Ball pattern &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not ready to make one yet? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/amigurumi-beach-ball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Add this pattern to your Ravelry queue<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/badges\/redirect?p=amigurumi-beach-ball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.ravelry.com\/badges\/projects?p=amigurumi-beach-ball&#038;t=.svg\" style=\"border: none;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Summer Fun CAL<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re about to make a beach ball, why not join a relaxed PlanetJune crochetalong (CAL) while you make it?  The rules of the <strong>Summer Fun CAL<\/strong> are simple: make <strong>any<\/strong> PlanetJune pattern in July or August 2022, and share photos of what you&#8217;re making!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/CALsummer2022.jpg\" alt=\"Summer Fun 2022 CAL - all crochet patterns by PlanetJune\" \/><em>Here&#8217;s a selection of quick and\/or summery PlanetJune patterns to give you some ideas&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you want to join in with the community and see what everyone else is making, come and hang out in the <em>Summer Fun CAL<\/em> thread in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/ravelry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlanetJune group on Ravelry<\/a> or the <em>#crochetalongs<\/em> channel on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/discord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlanetJune Discord server<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>You can also join in by posting your pics on your social media, and remember to tag me (@planetjune) so I can see what you&#8217;ve been making!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I hope to see lots of Beach Balls in different colourways and yarns this summer &#8211; this is going to be fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amigurumi Beach Ball is a fun no-sew pattern for summer &#8211; or for any time of year! Make a play ball for the kids, a set of juggling balls, or a stress ball to play with at your desk. Make it interactive by adding a squeaker, rattle or bell when you stuff it. Stuff it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-patterns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}