Talk about down to the wire!
I actually finished the first 5 of these much earlier, but it took forever for me to get to that last one.
Here are the finished Singlade balls. As I used reflective and sparkling yard, I took photos in a dark room with flash, so they're not the best quality, I'm afraid!
Here are all six of them. I used leftover yarn from other projects, and it was a matter of using what I had enough of, when it came to the colour combinations.
Here is one made up of grey and hot pink reflective yarn. Each triangle is done the same way.
For this one, I used black reflective yard to border the triangles, red yarn with a silver metallic strand, and a tiny accent of neon yellow reflective yarn.
With this one, I did alternated using the dark green reflective yarn and the peacock blue, together with the red sparkle yarn. I had intended to do all green and red, but didn't have enough green.
This was actually the last one I did, and changed up from doing 8 triangles to 4 oblong shapes, all in reflective yarn. The blue and grey were in alternating single rows, then two rows of the hot pink. I changed the stitch for the neon yellow in the middle, to create a raised line down the centre.
This one was pretty basic: solid triangles in hot pink and peacock blue reflective yarn.
This one was actually one of the first I did. Red sparkle yarn with a reflective black yarn accent.
I'm rather happy with how these turned out. For these first Singlade balls, since they were specifically for Christmas ornaments that I wanted to be sparkly, I used thicker yarn than I otherwise would have. It made for chunkier stitches and you can see the white base in some places, in between the stitches. If I were to do these again, I think I'd try making smaller ones using variegated embroidery yarn.
Christmas for us this year is a much quieter one, with minimal decorations. These will be a table decoration in their basket. If we wanted to hang them, I would use simple wire hangers. The reflective and metallic strands in the yarn are the focal points in them.
This is definitely an enjoyable, almost meditative, craft that I would definitely recommend.
