A Bit of Yoyo History – Yoyo Uses

If you are not one who will make a yoyo quilt, how could you use yoyos?  There are so many ways. 

 You can make a place mat or table matt with the yoyos.  The matts can be square or rectangle

But they can also be whatever shape you can imagine – a diamond shape or even a pumpkin

I use yoyos for a lot of Christmas ornaments.   You can make one big yoyo out of holiday fabric and if you make it big enough, you can use a big print fabric.  The yoyo below is finished at about 3 inches in diameter.

You can sew four yoyos together, alternating the yoyos so there are two gathered sides showing and two smooth sides.  I usually string a thread through one yoyo so it appears like a diamond shape.  These yoyos finished at an 1 1/2 inches.  

 

 Or sew them together in a design like a tree or candy cane.  (These yoyos are about ¾ inch in diameter).  Or use different sizes for a snow man (the biggest yoyo here is 2 7/4 inch in diameter.)

                 

You could also stack the yoyos.  With this little tree, I put a little stuffing in each yoyo so it puffed up a little.  The yoyos increase in size as the tree gets bigger.  The top yoyo finishes at 1 inch, the bottom at 3 inches. 

I will show you more possible uses next week. 

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