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After lots of delays, and more than a month after the end of the World Cup the ball is finished at last! Although I like the finished ball I...

Remember last time I said things like "only 15 to go" and "finish before the start of the World Cup"? Well, it ain'...

It is going a bit slower than I want it to, but at least there is some progress... Only 17 days to go before the World Cup starts! I hope to...

I have finished 6 pieces of the soccer ball. 5 hexagons and 1 pentagon. After assembling the blocks into the first cluster it looks like thi...

The crochet soccer ball was coming along fine, or so I thought, until after 5 hexagons, the pattern wouldn't flow anymore. I was stuck. ...

I just started on my next soccer ball design, and look what I have so far... Some really nice cotton from Mission Falls (Canada). I was loo...

My first soccer ball is finished at last! Patched and quilted (or rather top-stitched - there's no batting underneath) and stuffed with ...

I chose the fabric for my first ball a few weeks ago but I only got around to do something with it this morning. I chose the colours of the ...

Really. A soccer ball (or football if you're from Europe) is a spherical polyhedron or spherical truncated icosahedron . It is a shape ...