Roving Footbags

My new roving came today. I made a trade for it with an Etsy seller. I'd tell you who she is except she doesn't own her goat any longer. Boy is this stuff gorgeous, we have lots of needle felting plans!

Ok, do you remember the footbag I made for Gilbert? Well we shortened our pattern a bit and came up with the perfect bag. The one on the left is a sand filled footbag Gil got at a store.

We were going to buy play sand for it but I saw this decor sand at Michaels the other day. I even thought it might work better. It does, Gil actually said it "stalls" better than the store bought bag, hacky sack talk. There is a whole footbag community world wide and you can learn more about it at this site:

www.footbag.org

I don't know how this will print up but here's our new pattern. You will need 8 panels to make the footbag and I sewed a 1/4" seam.

Beachball Footbag

Not a bag to put on one's foot, well kinda but no. A bag, filled with sand, that hacky sackers like.

Gilbert did some research and found that microfiber fabric was tight enough to hold sand. I actually had some on hand. He also looked for patterns and came across a blog I follow. She's in my blog list, The Purl Bee. The pattern is for a beach ball type ball which Gil and I agreed would work. Here's her pattern and tutorial: http://www.purlbee.com/fabric-beach-balls/

I told Gil I wasn't the greatest sewer but he encouraged me.

He would, he wanted a sand filled footbag!!!

Unfortunately this one is a bit big. No problem, we'll go a bit smaller on the next.