Hi, it’s Jenny, from the Missouri Star Quilt Company. Happy Valentines Day! We’ve got
a great little project for you to help you celebrate this season. We’ve taken Sandy
Gervais’, Pieces of the Heart pattern, called Flowers for Thee, and we’ve combined it
with Deb Strain’s Sent with Love, to make this darling little project.
Right here, you take out your red swatches, frame it in, the pattern is really self explanatory
and great. What I really want to show you are the yo-yo’s. For years I have not been
a fan of, well you all know I’m really cheap. So, I try to not have to buy all those little
things that we need to do things, but Sarah got me to try the yo-yo maker, and I’ve
always thought, “Yo-yo maker? Just cut it in a circle and sew it
up.” But I used the yo-yo maker and I’m telling you, I am sold! A hundred times over!
Let me show you how this works. I think you’ll be sold, too!
First, these are the pieces that you’ll need. This is the Yo-yo Clover package.
This is the two pieces that are in it. You want to keep this piece with the writing facing
up where it says Clover. You’ll need a pair of scissors, and a needle and thread. You
lay your fabric in this cap so that it shows right side out on the backside, and you snap
this piece in. No more of the drawing a circle and trimming around, and now you just cut
this so around like this. You don’t have to take your circle and draw it, you just
cut it in. This just makes the fastest, most fun yo-yo’s,
I just can’t even tell you how sold I am on this project!
Then you’re going to take your needle and you see these little lines here. You go in
one side and you just hold this down with your thumb, like this, and you’re going
to go just back and forth through the little holes right there, and what you want to do
is you want to make sure that you only go in and out the holes. Don’t let your thread
go across the plastic or it’ll be hooked to that, but you just go in and out these
little holes, and there’s little ridges on the other side that let your needle go
through.
So, with your thumb you just fold that fabric down, and you keep going all the way around.
Let’s see maybe I can show you better from this side. There we go. See, I’m holding
it down with my finger in the back, and then I come up through this hole, right here on
the front and stitch it over. You’ll continue doing that until you’re all the way around
your whole yo-yo.
Alright, here we are in our last hole and we’re through there, and then what we’re
going to do is we’re just going to push through this one, right here, we’re going
to slide out this little orange piece, inside here, and then we’re just going to pull
our thread and how easy is this! It just all cinches up like a yo-yo, and then you puff
it out to make it the size you want, and we’re going to cinch that up. Look at that! It’s
a perfect little yo-yo, and you didn’t have to do the tracing, or the cutting, you just
cinch it up.
Look at that! Isn’t that darling! You just lay your fabric in there, cut it out, and
stitch around it, and it makes the little folded edge and everything! We love this,
and we’ve made several of them here.
The yo-yo makers come in several different sizes and as you can see, they come in a small,
medium, a large, an extra large, and an extra small. So, especially when you are making
those teeny, tiny ones you don’t have to cut out the fabric. You just lay that fabric
in, clap that thing together, and stitch around it. It’s just the, I just love this yo-yo
maker and I can see why people love it too! We have a lot of them for sale at the Missouri
Star Quilt Company! Check us out!
