Why?
Well, because for a lot of toy stuff, spheres are actually pretty much essential and form heads, bodies or other bits of your animals or creature creations.
Most folk opt for the 'easy' method of crocheting spheres, to gradually increase each row, then crochet a few even rows of stitches in single crochet before then decreasing back to a closure point.
Sometimes you get a good result doing this, but the sphere in the picture for this article was crocheted using a slightly weird formula that a maths genius came up with, that actually does a far better job of giving you a really nice uniform and even sphere and a smaller closure point to match your magic circle.
I've adapted the pattern a tad, purely because I love magic ring / circle 'starts' to any work rather than chaining 6 stitches and joining them. See how you get on with your own spheres! (Note, this pattern makes a nice compact 12 row sphere but you can increase the number of rows fairly easily using the method below to make bigger spheres).
Terminology (US Stitch type)
SC - Single Crochet
Inc - Single Crochet Increase
Dec - Single Crochet Decrease
Ideal Sphere
Row 1: SC in magic ring (6)
Row 2: SC Increase all around (12)
Row 3: (This is where it starts getting tricky!) SC, Inc, 2 SC, Inc, SC, Inc, 2 SC, Inc, SC, Inc (17)
Row 4: 2 SC, Inc, 3 SC, Inc, 3 SC, Inc, 3 SC, Inc, 2 SC (21)
Row 5: 3 SC, Inc, 6 SC, Inc, 6 SC, Inc, 3 SC (24)
Row 6: 10 SC, Inc, 13 SC (25)
Row 7: SC all around (25)
Row 8: 13 SC, Dec, 10 SC (24)
Row 9: 3 SC, Dec, 6 SC, Dec, 6 SC, Dec, 3 SC (21)
Row 10: 2 SC, Dec, 3 SC, Dec, 3 SC, Dec, 3 SC, Dec, 2 SC (17)
Row 11: Dec, 1 SC, Dec, 2 SC, Dec, 1 SC, Dec, 2 SC, Dec, 1 SC (12) (Stuff at this point but don't overstuff)
Row 12: 4 x Decrease. Fasten off with enough tail length to sew closed the opening. Weave your thread through each remaining stitch and pull tight like a drawstring then sew in the remaining thread.
Enjoy making your spheres!!
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