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To: MomwithHope

No I have not gotten into Yo yos yet. How do use them? On a quilt?


11 posted on 08/01/2021 9:46:12 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: Persevero

I made one yoyo bedspread - 1500 or 1600 yoyos. I forget.
Have made purses with a liner behind, used as decorations on other regular quilts, dresser scarves, clown dolls with jingle bell ends, vests. My mom loved using scraps for yoyos.


16 posted on 08/01/2021 11:39:25 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future. )
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To: Persevero
I have not gotten into Yo yos yet. How do use them? On a quilt?

Most yo-yo quilts (actually coverlets) that I have seen used yo-yos that are around three inches across as a finished size, either laid in straight rows or alternatiing to fit together more closely:

But one that I saw was incredibly intricate, with finished yo-yos between the size of a fifty-cent piece and a quarter:


25 posted on 08/02/2021 11:20:14 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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