YoYo Design Help

You could make a table runner out of them, then, make napkins to match with maybe 1 YoYo on the corner? Coasters? I saw a pillow at "The Pottery Barn" once, that had red bandana print yoyo's on the front, and a navy and white stripe fabric on the back, just regular throw pillow size, and it was $60! My grandma made me a yoyo table mat several years ago, to put on your table, and then put a hot casserole on, it had a flannel back, and I wore it out. I've seen heart shaped yoyo's (1) on ponytail holders for little girls. You could make teeny, tiny ones and sew them around the cuff of some winter gloves. or around the ends of a winter scarf. Glue them around the frame of a bulletin board that you hang photos of favorite "quilty" things on. Make some out of a floral / garden print and sew them to the cuff of a pair of garden gloves for a girlfriend that loves to garden. Make some really "girly" ones, and glue to the bottom of a lampshade for a little girls bedroom. Use little ones on a Santa Claus beard on a wall hanging...........

Patti in Seattle

Joan, I have a yoyo vest that I've enjoyed for 10 or 15 years. It is silk yo's made in autumn colors and plays nicely with anything from a plain dress to jeans and a t-shirt. There are no fancy seams or fussy fittings to it - it's just straight and is sort of tunic length. Polly

"joan8904 in Bellevue Nebraska" Okay, so I got this yoyo maker. Now the question is, what do I do

Joan, you could set yourself up in business. I don't have a yo-yo maker, but I have been trying like mad to make just a handful of yo- yos. Obviously I am totally unable to grasp what should be a very simple concept.

I bet there are others like me -- quilters needing between 4 and a dozen yo-yos. And willing to pay for them.

So there you go. I send you my fabric and reverse postage and x amoung per yo-yo and you make them and send them back to me. We are all happy. Just think. You could recoup athe cost of your yo-yo device in no time at all.

Sunny

I have seen several really cute vests made of yo yo's. If you google image yo yo dolls there are some really cute ones. I have a lady friend that makes a lot of yoyo's. She puts them on lots of her other work as a little decoration. She even does really tiny ones. I have seen table toppers. The nicest one I saw was sort of square with extras in the corners so it sort of had shape to it. They were fairly tiny yoyos and the colors were planned out to make a design too. It was red and green for Christmas. HTH, TAria

joan8904 > Okay, so I got this yoyo maker. Now the question is, what do I do

I bought it too..! I bought the large sized one...made one yoyo...and then didn't know what I'd do with a bunch of them either. DIL is making , with gds, a WH ...with yoyos for flowers. I can't think of a thing I want made with them..Think I just bought it 'cause I wanted to see how it worked.

They make good flower appliques. Whole flower, individual petals, or just the flower centers. I've seen them used for snowman body parts too. I guess you could use them for any round shaped applique piece--vehicle tires, several in a wiggly row for a caterpillar, animal bodies, doll heads, and anything else you could think up. Debra in VA See my quilts at

Sorry, but no thanks. I'm not THAT interested in yoyos. My short attention span would kick in about yoyo #4! The table runner idea is the most interesting I've seen so far, but I do appreciate all of the suggestions. Guess I'm just not much of a 'do dad' sort of person.

joan

That's how I've used them, too. For example, I used them on a string-pieced jacket using 30's repro fabrics. Photos at

Julia in MN

Applique flowers or flower centers or star centers. Old-fashioned yo-yo clown -remember those? (Not quilting, but uses lots of yo-yos!) Roberta in D

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I think I have a Christmas tree made along similar lines. Lots of yoyos stacked one atop each other, with each one a different size so it formed a tree shape. Debra in VA See my quilts at

oh goodness me, Joan. after reading just a few of the responses, i recalled making a clown type doll for dd, iirc, when she was tiny out of yoyo'that is put a scrap of batting inside for some substance. then you join them in multiples...oh hell i need to find a pix online. cant figure out a way to splain it. hold on a sec..... easier, i did just check it, google 'yoyo doll' theres a whole mess ofo cute pix there. they're easy peasy to make and use up scraps or coordinated fabrics and those small bits of batting ya cant work out what to do with but hate tossing out. hope that helps. i wonder what happened to that doll. hmmmmm. jeanne

"joan8904 > Okay, so I got this yoyo maker. Now the question is, what do I do

Here they're called Suffolk Puffs.

Sally at the Seaside in Suffolk~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

joan8904 > Okay, so I got this yoyo maker. Now the question is, what do I do

I like him!

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

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