which contains the embroidered portion of the construction the embroidery portion can not be viewed in fig8 because it is on the bottom of the ball it is important to leave a small hole 28 in the top of a spherical crocheted object this hole is where a filling is inserted and a final closure is made the ball is typically filled with plastic pellets or some other desired filling the volume percentage of the filling will determine how slack or firm the ball feels a large number of manufacturers that utilize the crocheted ball for the game of footbag use plastic pellet filling of approximate 2 millimeters diameter in size of varying shapes and choose to loosely fill the crocheted ball with from 40 to 75 fill percentage to give the ball the low bounce characteristics desired by many of the players of the game manufacturers of crocheted juggling balls tend to fill the crocheted ball with 100 percent fill to give the ball a harder feel and an easier grip which is more suitable for their sport many other fill types and combinations exist in our embodiment filling and closure are all part of the normal manufacture found in the production of crocheted balls note in fig8 that a hole has been left with two loose threads 24 and 25 commonly the extra thread is left to perform the final closure after filling the final closure is done using the crochet hooked needle and tied off to seal the construction due to the pliant and soft nature of the thread materials such as.