I told you a few weeks ago that a friend from church was going to give me a bunch of yoyos that her mom had made a long time ago. Well, she brought them over this week, holy cow, there's tons of 'em.
There's a completed baby quilt top, and a completed almost twin sized top. Then I guess she planned on covering every pillow in the free world with yoyos, as there's a stack of already sewn, ready to stuff pillow covers. As I don't plan to decorate with yoyo pillows, I've been trying to decide what to do with them. They're approx. 12" x 14", a couple are larger, sewn together on three sides, like a bag.
I think I might take the largest one and line it, add some kind of a handle and use it as a shopping bag when I go to quilt shows, etc .
Then there were about a hundred yoyos that she had sewn into circles, like little bracelets. It's strange, I have no idea what she had planned for these. I've spent the past couple of nights unstitching them and now have a basket of unmatched singles. A little 3 year old buddy of mine was over this morning and getting antsy, I gave him the basket of singles to play with, so it was snowing yoyos for most of the morning. Eventually he had fun putting them away, "Find the blue ones, find the red ones, etc.
The weirdest part is she sewed all of the light colored ones together with black string, and all of the dark ones with white string. The string doesn't show on the front so it doesn't really matter.
Any ideas on using these yoyo "bags"? I thought maybe tea cozies (with a lining), but I'm not sure teapot spouts would fit within the bags.
I guess I could spend the next few months unstitching them all, and restitching them into something usable. I've seen a few sweatshirts embellished with yoyos, but that's not my style. I'd have to walk through doors sideways if I placed a bunch of yoyos on my boobs.
These are all very old fashioned materials taken from old clothes, I think.
Denise