Lorna has been making sequin ball ornaments using the Sequin Ball Kit at pieceocake.com and she wanted to share the story. Here’s Lorna…

I had an idea to use wool like Becky did (video at bottom), but vertically, and it was honestly easier than I thought it would be. I cut 1/2″ wool strips about 4-1/2″ long (you can always trim, so don’t stress) with a rotary cutter and I set up my work space.

Somewhere in the middle of making the ball, I realized that I forgot to poke a hole through the center of the ball for the wire. I’m going to add that later, after I find a skewer to poke through.

Then it was just the regular process of loading the pin with the bead and the sequin and the glue, but through the wool into the ball. I did the same with the other two blue wool strips.

I trimmed the pink wool strips so they would kind of fit in, and did the same process with those three. At that point I had created 6 small empty sections and I sorted out pink and blue sequins into my trays. Then it was just the normal process as described in the video.

I haven’t filled in the blue wedges yet, but the pink are done. Overnight, I put my bead tray with glue into a plastic sandwich baggy to keep the glue from drying, and it worked just fine.

I liked the 1/4″ strips with the little stars, and if I had it to do again, I’d play more with the wool. In fact, I’m already thinking about what my next ball will be like. It might be a rainbow! We talk about wool applique being fast, but wool makes this super fast, too. The more wool you use, the faster it goes. And it’s pretty!

If you don’t already have wool scraps, Tracy Trevethan Wool is the best, quality and color selection, IMO (in my opinion).