England Rugby Ball

The Women’s Rugby World Cup comes to the UK this year, 2025, and one of the host cities is Exeter. To celebrate England Rugby and the Red Roses have put out a call to yarn bomb towns and cities near the host cities to celebrate all things rugby. Here in Cullompton we have a really active rugby club (for which I am a junior committee member) so it seemed appropriate we yarn bomb here. In conjunction with Fudges

Wool and Haberdashery and Cullompton Town Council are decorating the town. So I decided we needed to use the old rugby balls at the Club and thought yarn bombing them would be a great idea. This is my pattern for a Size 5 ball. It will be free for the duration of the World Cup.

Difficulty

You will be working in US terminology throughout with single crochets, the four sides are then joined with a single crochet red cross to adorn.

Materials Needed

Chunky (Bulky/12-14 ply) yarn

375 meters in white

25 meters in red

5.5 mm (I/9) crochet hook

A size 5 rugby ball - measures approximately 28/30 cm long, 58/62 cm in circumference around the middle and 74/77 cm in circumference end to end, or you could stuff it if you don't have a ball

Sewing needle and scissors

Whilst this pattern has been tested and edited we are all human so if you do discover any issues please let me know.