The Summer Olympics are 2 months away, so I thought I would reblog the soccer ball pattern I wrote up for the Word Cup in 2006. The soccer ball pattern is here and the PDF is here!

If you want a nice soft indoor ball, knit this with cotton or wool and stuff with a fabric ball or ball form. If you want an outdoor ball, you can cut strips of plastic bag or some other water-resistant yarn and knit it around a mini beach ball. You can also use a thinner yarn to make a mini ball, key ring or hacky sack. The PDF includes a bunch of ideas for patriotic colours, in case you’d like to support the home team.

Go Canada!

PS: This is cool! How coincidental. If you don’t want to knit a soccer ball (anyone watching Euro 2008? Yay!) you can Knit an Inukshuk for the 2010 Winter Games in British Columbia.

Here is the official Needle Exchange Pattern for knitting a spiral.

Yarn & Gauge

Any you like. I used a worsted cotton yarn for mine, producing a gauge of 24 stitches to 4 inches.

Stitch Dictionary

yo: yarn over. Move the yarn under the needle towards you and then back over the needle away from you. This produces an extra stitch.

Instructions

Cast on 1 stitch.

Row 1: *yo*. Repeat from * – * 100 times.

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I’m a big fan of Shimale; lots of my shirts are from there and I even wore a Shimale to prom. I thought it would be neat to make a Shimale scarf, so I turned their logo into a chart and I’m going to knit it into one of the ends. Here’s the chart:

PS: I wouldn’t recommend doing an image search. Just FYI.

Someone emailed me a little while ago saying there was a mistake in one of the diagrams for my Soccer Ball knitting pattern. I finally fixed that about a week ago, so you can take a look at the updated version here, or grab the PDF here. The only difference is the construction diagram.

On Friday I’ll be emailing a pattern update to everyone who sent me an email or left me a comment about the pattern. If I told you I would email you and you haven’t gotten anything from me by Saturday, grab it here and poke me because I’ve probably forgotten.

To be knit across the tuckus.

Refer Snoop Dogg vs. Ice Cube.

A great idea from knitgrrl for a sunburn sweater:

It would be funny to have an intarsia pullover that’s red on the shoulder tops, chest, etc and then white where the shirt you were wearing when you got burned would be.

This has inspired me with another idea: Sweaters with tattoos on them. You can emulate a tattoo you already have (ensuring it’s displayed in both summer and winter), or test out one you want. It would be mega-cool to knit a sweater with an anchor on the shoulder. I’ve even made a little chart:

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I’ve made the World Cup Soccer Ball pattern into a pdf. Get it here! The PDF also contains various colour schemes for each of the countries partaking, as well as Canada.

Get the PDF!

This pattern is great for people who have little time to do anything. It’s knit in pieces, with each panel (a pentagon or hexagon) created individually. Just pick up a few stitches, knit a panel, and put it away. It’s all very laid-back, and great for people with short attention spans. It is the “Garfield the Cat” of knitting patterns.

In total, you’ll have to make 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. Don’t worry, though, each one takes about ten minutes, tops! It uses up less than a ball of yarn for each colour so it’s a perfect stash-buster, and if you knit it in your national colours, it’s patriotic, too!

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