>Book sneak peak
10 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
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Here is the badge I was given to show the new book”Countdown Calendars” I am in coming out in June. I love the photo the photographer too of my project in front of a window with the light streaming through it so cool. You can pre order this book by going here you will not be charged till it ships in June.
Because of this book and my contract with the publisher certain items have been removed from my blog. I will replace them and re -post those posts with new projects with a similar concept but different than the book. I will update when I have done that and give a link.
>Grandma Harbaugh’s yo-yos
28 Jul 2010 3 Comments
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When my husbands grandmother died she had some sewing supplies. They have since been divided among my sister-laws who sew and myself. In the the items I chose was a small bunch of yo-yos that had been made but not sewn to anything. So I sewed them together and framed them today I just love them so sweet and it is nice to have something from grandma, especially yo-yos.
She had a few more (3 and 1) in two different sizes which I will frame some time in the future. Those are kind of fun as the paper template is still with one cut out from a newspaper with the date and all.
This is the entry way from my front room into my kitchen I think it goes well with the embroidery that I got from my old neighbor.
On the top shelf is the rocking horse my children used when they where just tikes but they have since out grown it so now it is a decoration. The doll house is “The Littles” from when I was a kid. It is a pretty cool little doll house has cast metal furniture that functions meaning drop leaf tables actually work. This is sort of where childhood gets remembered on that shelf. I have a few more things to put up there but I have to find them first in storage still working on that.
>Remember that yoyo quilt
10 Apr 2010 2 Comments
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I while back I posted about a quilt a lady showed when teaching a class at the local quilt guild fair, her daughters quilt is shown above. I wasn’t very excited about the class but the work shown was lovely as you can see from the quilt shown above.
Well the other day I found two of those store bought quilts (on clearance) sort of like the one pictured above that the teacher’s daughter did, but a tad bit different. Mine don’t have a scalloped edge and are not white on white. Mine are white on one side and colored on the other and the quilting is colored. One is bright orange and one is medium blue. As for the colored seam binging well that is something the teacher’s daughter added.
So I am thinking I will make two of these one brightly colored and one more subdued. I think the white yoyos the girls have been making with the big blue yoyo tool might be just the ticket for the subdued one, using the blue quilt. I will probably make a little tutorial to go with this so other people can do it too. The bright one I may add a quilt too it that I was making a while back that I want a little stronger and a little bigger. the nice thing about doing this type of thing is it makes the yoyo quilt stronger and it also makes it a warm quilt not just a summer coverlet on a guest bed.
>New Yoyo tool
08 Apr 2010 4 Comments
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Over Easter break we had a road trip. My sister wanted to pick up making yoyos so I took a yoyo tool ( the jumbo blue one) and some other stuff so she could see how to do it by hand with just a needle and thread and with the tool. She liked by hand better as do I.
During which time I tried to entertain my children with having them work with the jumbo blue clover yoyo tool. It is always amazing to me how big the tool is and how the size of the yoyo compares to it. I have wanted a tone on tone yoyo coverlet for a while so this just may be the start of that project.
Also yesterday while running errands I purchased the newest clover yoyo tool the one for making ovals. I have yet to play with it but my 12 year old did and she said it was easy to work with. Once again the size difference but it seemed much more obvious with the oval tool as opposed to the round tool.
These would work well with the round smaller size yoyos to make a sort of cathedral windows look. I may have to make a sample of that to explain what I mean. It wouldn’t look exactly like a cathedral windows quilt but similar in feel with the shapes used arches in other words.
>Oval yoyo maker
20 Jan 2010 1 Comment
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It looks like Clover is coming out with a new yoyo maker in an oval shape. I don’t know when it will be available. But it looks like it will be another nice shape to add to projects.
>14+ yards of garland
12 Nov 2009 2 Comments
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I had tons of green yoyos sitting around and about 1 year ago I made short garlands out of them. Well yesterday I decided that they are not very useful in short lengths so I joined them all together to make this one very long garland that is over 14 yards in length. Now to figure out where to hang it for the holidays and hey it would work for St. Patricks day too.
Here is a cute Christmas tree made out of yoyos and some Easter eggs too.
>It’s near advent…
09 Nov 2009 Leave a Comment
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Please if you make any of these items I would love to see them added to the flickr pool all about this. Thanks and happy crafting.
>Fall yoyo pilllow
07 Nov 2009 3 Comments
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Remember that pile of yarn I have to work my way through for a special order. Well I get to keep the scraps from the projects. I had this pillow in my house that I made when I was 16 years old it had seen better days. I removed the fabric cover made a new liner and covered it with crochet yoyos for the fall season. There wasn’t much of this yarn left when I had finished making the customer’s items but not much is needed for such a little project. Which has been true of all the yarns. I also have a new neck warmer from scraps from one of the other projects too. I forgot to post it maybe later I will remember and post that. There are a few more projects to do for this order then I will be back to normal posting.
>New yoyo tools coming out
15 Oct 2009 Leave a Comment
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I was looking on Clover’s sight and they have new yoyo makers coming out in November in the shape of butterflies and four leaf clovers. I will definitely have to get them especially the butterfly ones for my butterfly girl. The funny thing is when I buy these types of things I always have to buy more than one set as my kids always want to try them too. The image in this post I captured from the clover sight it is not my photo I just wanted to be able to show you what I saw there. If you like yoyos this should be a cool new tool. I have been making clovers already but I used hearts to make them. I have also already been making butterflys by just doing a few extra stitches in a normal round yoyo but this looks nicer than what I came up with. Doesn’t look like it is able to be ordered yet hopefully soon.
>Halloween Yoyos
28 Sep 2009 1 Comment
>I am in a Halloween yoyo swap and here are the ones I have received thus far. There are a few more that are to come in the mail yet. I will add them to my Halloween yoyo blanket.
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