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Balloon Ball Tutorial Materials: A fat quarter of fabric Pattern cutouts Pencil Scissors Rotary blade & cutting mat (it’s okay if you don’t have these) Seam ripper Pins & needles Sewing machine Lay out your fabric. I highly suggest ironing it before use. Make sure it’s inside out & folded in half. I like to put pins in the bottom edge so that my fabric doesn’t move. Then start tracing the template with pencil. You will need to trace 4 ovalish shapes and one octagon to get the total 8 ovals and 2 octagons. Once they’re all traced, insert some pins inside the shapes to prepare for cutting

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Page 1: Balloon Ball Tutorial

BalloonBallTutorial

Materials:

• Afatquarteroffabric• Patterncutouts• Pencil• Scissors• Rotaryblade&cuttingmat(it’sokayifyoudon’thavethese)

• Seamripper• Pins&needles• Sewingmachine

Layoutyourfabric.Ihighlysuggestironingitbeforeuse.Makesureit’sinsideout&foldedinhalf.Iliketoputpinsinthebottomedgesothatmyfabricdoesn’tmove.Thenstarttracingthetemplatewithpencil.Youwillneedtotrace4ovalishshapesandoneoctagontogetthetotal8ovalsand2octagons.

Oncethey’realltraced,insertsomepinsinsidetheshapestoprepareforcutting

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Theseshapescanbetrickytocut,sousingscissorsisprobablyeasiestunlessyou’reaproatrotaryblades.Ialmosthadafewaccidents,butImanaged!It’sratherredeemingtogetaperfectlycutoutshape.

Onceyouhaveall5cutouts,we’rereadytoroll!

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Incomesthesewingmachine!Graboneofyourovalsandsewdownjustoneside.Startwherethestraightpartstops,anddon’tforgettobackstitch.Asyoucansee,Icausedmyselfalotofgriefbyputtingeverysinglepininbackwards.

Keeptheedgeofthefabricrightupontheedgeofyourfootforanicecleanseam.

Onceyou’vedonethatone,dothesametotheother3ovals.

Okay!Nowthatall4ovalshaveaseamdownjustoneside,wecanstartpiecingthemainpartoftheballtogether.Openupapairofovalsandinsertitintoanotherpair,keepingtherightsidesofthefabricfacingeachother.

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Pinthemtogetherandrunaseamdowntheedge,justasyoudidwiththepairs.Nowyouhavehalfaball!Setthishalfasideandrepeatwiththeothertwosections.

Nowwe’regoingtojointhetwosections.Keepingrightsidestogether,lineuptherawedgesofthehalves.Pinthemtogether&sewtheedge.Itlookssocoolatthisstage!

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Fittogetherthelasttwoedgesandseamthem.

Oohlookastarfruit!Setyourballbodyasideforamoment…

…andgrabanoctagon.Makealinewithyourpencilonthewrongside,aboutaninchorsolong.Itdoesn’thavetobestraightorexact,it’sjustgoingtoactasaguide.

Thispartisgoingtobetricky.Ihavearathersimplesewingmachine,soIdon’tknowhowthiswouldbeaccomplishedonothertypes,butthelengthofthestitchwillbesetat0,ortheshortestsettingavailable,andthewidth(thinkzig‐zag)issetat3,aboutamedium.

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Positiontheoctagonunderthefootsothatthelineisjusttotherightoftheneedle.

Slowlysewdowntheedgeoftheline.Youmayhavetopullthefabricabittokeepitmoving.

Whenyoureachtheendofyourline,stop,makingsuretheneedleisstillinthefabric.Liftupthefoot.

Carefullyturnthefabricwiththeneedlestillinitsothattheendofyourlineisnowatthetop.

Overlapthefirstfewstitcheswiththeonesontheothersideoftheline,thentrytoveerawayatadandoverlapagainattheendoftheline.

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Ifyourstitchingwentwell,itshouldcomeoutsomethinglikethis.

Nowwe’regoingtomakeahole.Insertyourseamripperintothemiddleofthetwolinesandripup,tryingnottorunoveranyofthoseneatstitches.

Aren’tyougladwe’redonewiththatmessnow?Guesswhat,there’smore!

Lineupeachtaboftheovalswithasideoftheoctagon.Ifoundoutlaterthatit’smucheasiertopineveryothertabratherthanallofthem.Keeprightsidestogether.Theedgeoftheoctagonshouldbepositionedslightlyunderneaththevisiblestitchesofthesides.Carefullysewaroundtheoctagon.

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Repeatthesameprocessfortheotherendoftheballwiththeotheroctagon.

Theballiscomplete!Therearejustafewmorethingstodo.Snipanyleftoverthreadsthatmaybehangingaround.

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Usingtheholewemadeearlier,reachthroughandpinchthebottomoftheballandpullthroughthehole.

Finally,we’reatthefunpart!Findyourselfaballoon!Stickitinthehole,blowitup,tieit,andhavefun!