So Ben is the genius who figured out the answer to the crochet IQ. Actually, he admitted to cheating, but almost as remarkable is the fact that he saw a woman doing craft, then remembered, a few days later, what it was she was making. That is a gift!
Here is the answer in pictures. I think it's rather sweet, even if I do say so myself. That's navy by the way, not black as it appears in the photo. I would have liked a lighter navy, but since I was looking for 5 ply wool, I bought what I could find, so it's a tad dark. (It's for a baby, if you hadn't guessed and thought I just wanted to make myself a ball.)
Here is the ball modelled by Abraham the bear. Once upon a time my sister went through a phase of making bears. She didn't like Abraham (though he was nameless then) because his head was too small and his ears were in the wrong place. But I took pity on him and saved him from whatever was to be the fate of a bear with a head too small and ears in the wrong place, and gave him a name and a home. I'm very fond of him now.
