I follow a Facebook Group called Stitch Meditations and one of the Moderators, Anne Marie Desauliniers, posted a picture of one of her embroidered orbs on Instagram which set me off on a mini obsession. I have two big bags of plastic garden playballs, so I used them as the base,
covering them with fabric scraps and then using yarn made of Silk waste from the manufacture of saris, from Yarn Yarn to hang them up with.
This tied in with another recent obsession with re-using teabags
I sewed a strip of 4 together and then wrapped it round the ball, sewing ends together. Then did the same with another strip. All the edges were then sewn down.
Some have gone to my grandchildren for them to paint and decorate (mainly because they find it so funny that Granny sits sewing teabags together)
and the rest are sitting in a bowl waiting for more inspiration to strike
Joining in with Kate and her happy band of Scrappers.
Kate, Gun, Titti, Heléne, Eva, Sue, Lynn, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy, Jill, Claire, Jan,
Moira, Sandra (me), Linda, Chris, Nancy, Alys, Kerry, Claire,
Jean, Jon, Hayley, Dawn, Gwen, Connie, Bekki,
Sue L, Sunny, Kjerstin, Vera, Nanette and Ann
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They are fabulous! Great reuse too.
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Thank you Amanda. They became a mini-obsession for a while. I think I’m better now! 🙂
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Those are great ideas, Sandra
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Thank you Cathy – it keeps the excessive-recycling part of me happy!
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Looks a fun idea though I have neither a variety of suitable fabric scraps or tea bags to make my own.
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Oh these are wonderful – maybe use them like a “fruit bowl” when there is no fruit unless of course you don’t mind them being outdoors and weathering…
Catherine, in NZ
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They definitely look quite happy in a bowl for now. 🙂
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Always good when we can amuse our grandchildren! LOL These look so colorful and I can just imagine them hanging on a tree or a bannister or mantle or most anywhere.
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Yes to amusing the granchildren – shocking or embarassing my children also stills gives me a lot of cheeky pleasure! 🙂 🙂
My daughter even found just the right quote – at the bottom of this post : https://daffodilwild.wordpress.com/2017/11/18/sandras-silly-saturday/
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Love these, both the sari silk and the tea bags, I will have to look for balls for next year. I only use loose tea but coffee filters would work and both black tea and coffee are considered a good natural dye – no need to add more chemicals.
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Some people have used drier balls – whatever they are – I don’t have a tumble dryer. and another person used a felted ball at the centre.
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Awesome! Love the orbs. Will have to find some balls. I miss those groups from Facebook, but not the gift I got from FB admins. Asking for my passport, etc…
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Yikes! that’s not good – I have been with FB for years and they keep wanting my phone number but I ignore them.
Glad you like my orbs!!!
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Sadly, there is someone who keeps finding me there, and then causing havoc with them. A Cyber stalker. So, for now, it’s just safer not to be there anyway. Besides, there’s no way in seven hells that I would give them my passport, or any identification.
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Quite right!
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Gorgeous, both the colourful sari silk baubles and the lovely textural teabag balls. What a magnificent ScrapHappy post for the end of the year 🙂
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Thank you Kate, I have been itching to share them!
Thank you so much for co-hosting Scrap Happy days – it does make me think more about what scraps to use up each month.
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Same here! I have so many scraps and lots of inspiration, most of the time. I really, really need to make another rainbow scrappy quilt just to chew up some more of them.
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Another brilliant idea and a good way to use up small scraps. Thank you
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Yay! 🙂
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Great ideas. Just wish I had some of those balls. I will try them with plastic eggs tho
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Hey! That’s a great idea – especially for Easter! I also have tried it on some cheap tennis balls.
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These are adorable. My sister-in-law saves her tea bags and loves to do crafts. I’ll forward this to her. 🙂 I found you from Judy Martin, BTW.
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Nice to know the route you took to get here Marsha. 🙂
Judy and I had such fun creating the characters and poems – hopefully the muse will return one day.
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I love reading comments on people’s posts as well as the posts. I make a lot of new friends that way.
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I’ve just joined the stitch meditations group… just need to find the time now for some meditative stitching, though.
I love your baubles (I’m very fond of recycled sari silk). No teabags here to make use of, but I love your creativity with them.
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I did try giving up teabags – just didn’t work for me – now there are many more companies that avoid plastic in their bags so it is getting slightly easier on my conscience. 😉
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Yes – finally they have seen sense
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A nice victory for us Eco-Warriors! 🙂
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The little branch in a bottle is exactly what I did for a tree when I lived in London for six years…with my husband and my oldest child who was born there, and whose oldest child is now presenting me with “Branch-in-a-bottle” trees…thanks for the memories. Enjoy your Caravan-by-the-sea Christmas!
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How lovely!
Thank you for sharing.
Perhaps there are more of us in the ‘Branch in a Bottle’ Tree Club! ❤
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I”m always amazed what you can do with teabags!
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HaHa!! Instagram has a lot to answer for! There is actually a Tea Bag Party club!
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A brilliant and timely scraphappy project! I haven’t had time to make any handmade baubles this year but I’ll store this one away in my mind for next time.
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I am not at all surprised you have not had time! I do hope you have a fabulous first Christmas in your new home!
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