I'd made a handful and sent them to various friends with kiddos. My friend, Erica (whose daughter is the proud owner of my first puzzle ball), liked the one I sent her son so much that she asked me to make a bunch as favors for his birthday party. I couldn't say no (she's a very dear friend), even though I was nervous about sewing all those straight lines. She needed 15...FIFTEEN?! Yup and I was glad to do it. I busted out some of my favorite Michael Miller fabrics and got started. The rundown was as follows: 1 jumbo-size for a girl (Daisy Delight in grape), 2 jumbo-size for boys (First Circles), 7 regular-size girly ones (Patti Paisley in watermelon), and 5 regular-size boyish ones (Sprockets). And, they turned out like this:
Pretty nifty, eh? There are many tutorials out there for crayon rolls, but the one I generally followed was this: Crayon Roll Tutorial (though I skipped the ric-rac). When I was browsing blogs the other day (which is one of my new favorite things to do...so much crafting inspriation!) I came across this tute...instead of the ribbon closure she does a velcro strap. Ingenius! I'd been thinking that the ribbon, while cute, might be problematic because little ones can't tie stuff. But, being fairly unimaginative and basically an idea-stealer, I couldn't think of an alternative. Serena of Nap Time Crafts figured it out for me. From now on, my crayon rolls will do the velcro thing.
I make my crayon rolls with ribbon, but have been thinking about using a different closure. Thanks for posting a link to a roll with velcro closure!
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