Originally Posted by Rhonda
Oh I love to debate things too. Just didn't want to sound like I was stepping on any toes. I tend to be one sided my side!! LOL :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
I was so excited when I figured out this shortcut! I didn't have anyone to tell about it and it just about did me in! I wanted so badly to show someone. So when I found this board a couple of years later I was so happy to have someone to share these things with!!
The journey of discovery is the best part of quilting for me! I love discovering how to do something new!
Back to the discussion: A yoyo is made by cutting a circle of fabric and using a template? drawing up the circle with a basted thread correct? or not?
I guess I have never actually read through the directions for a yoyo.
bearisgray has the classification of what makes a yoyo a yoyo correct when guild had the huge yoyo debate.
"I've always thought of yo-yos as those circles where the pulled up edges touched in the center - and then were sewn down/up/together - and the little things could be sewn together - or made into flowers - or something"
a yoyo should be seen as visually complete from both sides and either side can be used and sewn into a project and bulk removal isn't done.
its the gathering of bulk that makes it a yoyo. templates or not doesn't matter.
many people make yoyos without using a template. we had one lady in our guild that could cut a perfect free hand circle and make a yoyo in her sleep.
in your case you use a template and you gather but you lack the bulk of a yoyo. you use an easy way to basically do a needle turn applique and you go behind and cut out bulk just like most people do when doing applique.
you would have to start with more fabric, more gathers, and have just a tiny opening in the center of the gathers to make the "classic yoyo".