To make the drawstring I just chained roughly 350 chains tightly. You may need more or less depending on your tension. Weave in the ends.

Then weave the drawstring in between the holes left from the chains on the playmat.

Take a long piece of white yarn and thread it on your needle, then embroider one inch white lines every other row starting on the 5th inner circle and working your way out. You should be able to have 8 or so white embroidered circles on your playmat.

To embroider, go through or around a dc post, if the needle is on the top side of the playmat, skip 3 dc posts and then go under or through the next dc post and then bring the needle through the top and skip 3 more dc posts. The long white lines should be about 1 inch while the little blue blank spots should be about a third of an inch.

Like Saturn, Uranus has faint rings. We will surface crochet the ring, but you can do Uranus’s rings in either light blue or white depending on the colors you have.

In order to make continents, you are going to trail either green or blue under your stitches for the ball depending on the color you are currently using. Also the continents wont look 100% like Earth but are close enough that it gives off the effect that this ball represents Earth. (12)

If you don't have a variegated yarn of white, yellow, cream or brown you can cut strips of different yarn and change the colors as the strips run out (I did this with my own Saturn planet).

We will surface crochet the ring, but you can do Saturn’s rings in either light yellow/brown or white depending on the colors you have.

If you don't have a variegated yarn of white, red, orange, or brown you can cut strips of different yarn and change the colors as the strips run out.

And that's it for the crochet planets.

Once all the crochet planets and crochet sun have all the tails weaved in, you are officially done with the crochet planets and solar system travel play set.