Hot Air Balloons Mobile

PATTERN IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN

During summer the sky is filled with them: colourful hot air balloons, floating over lakes and forests.

These balloons are quick and fun to make and use up your leftover scraps of yarn in no time. Mix as many colours as you like, it makes them all the prettier! They are fun in a mobile or just as decoration, and equally loved by small and big children.

**Techniques used are **

knit in the round,

knit flat,

simple increases and decreases

What you need:

–~ 10g sock weight yarn or other in any colour, the more colourful the happier :)

– small leftover in gondola colour (brown, yellow… as you like)

– 5 double pointed needles (2.5 – 3.5mm or appropriate to yarn weight)

– Tapestry needle

– Fiberfill

– thinner yarn to attach the gondola

Pattern for personal use only! Pattern and items made from it may not be sold.