My beautiful Magic Balls by the yarn genius that is Sophie's Toes are the current pride of my stash and they were worth the hard fought battle to get them as I am sure you discerning yarn addicts will agree...
Magic Balls have been revived by Emily Parson in her Etsy shop and utilise an age old technique of tying together leftover lengths of yarn and winding it into a ball for it to be knit into a technicolour dream item. Emily uses lengths of her hand-dyed sock yarn and supplies a scarf pattern with each ball, but she has also knitted the most amazing Elizabeth Zimmerman Baby Surprise jacket from a ball which is what sold the yarn to me.
Unfortunately all this winding takes its toll and the Magic Balls will not be available again until the autumn but I am going to have a go at home...Google 'Magic Balls Yarn Knitting' and you will find lots of articles on the subject to help you create your very own individual Magic Ball!
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