Pictures of my yo-yo quilt

This is SO neat! Just wanted to let you know that my friend Wendy F would love to have this article with these great pictures over at her "Warming Creations" group. It's dedicated to quilts!

You can find that group right here: http://quiltpictures.gather.com/.

Thanks!

that is SO cool, michelle! !i'll feature this, in piecebypiece! thank you for sharing!

It's beautiful. It must have taken forever to complete this. Congratulations! Great photo of you with your finished creation. Thank you for sharing.

It is a beautiful quilt. Congrats on getting it finished. I am still waiting to start the baby clothes quilts for my daughters.

Faith, I did publish to that group. It is waiting for approval. I forgot that it was a moderated group and doesn't show up right away! LOL

Thanks Jessie. I am so proud of this quilt because it is my first. Now people are asking if I will sell it! LOL Sorry, but this one is mine! (Giggle!!)

Trish, it took me about a year to complete. I am making two pillows out of the remainder of the yo-yos. I have one completed, but still have to buy a pillow form for the second one.

Don't feel to bad Jennifer. I managed to spend Monday washing fabric so I can get it ironed and cut so I can make two more Yo-Yo Quilts. One for each of my daughters, plus I have to make a quilt for my granddaughter. She started out wanting Spongebob, but now she's into Dora. I think I might just make something girly and be done with it! LOL

Thanks Bob! Even my husband is proud of it and wants to show it off to everyone!

You could always use Dora & Spongebob colors. That might work too. I think either way she will be very happy with it. And without the specific characters she will eventually outgrow, she will be able to use the quilt a whole lot longer.

I was thinking about using up some of the scrap fabric that I bought at a yard sale and just making it some kind of crazy quilt. There are some blocks already started, but I could easily use up the other odd stuff to make "blocks" that have no real rhyme or reason and then piece those blocks togethers. It wouuld be a cheater way of doing a Crazy Quilt, but I don't think my three year-old granddaughter will know the difference for a while yet! LOL

Thanks Audrey. I had my hair cut last summer before school started so I could take care of it easier! I don't look good with long hair, but I was talked into by my husband and my youngest daughter. I cut it as soon as I could! LOL

This is beautiful Michelle. I can see that it took a lot of work.

neat! I want to make a yo yo quilt so badly but am freaked out by all the handiwork....maybe this summer I'll start one...you have now inspired me! :-D

Michelle, I love it!!

It came out wonderful! You do beautiful work!

That's so very pretty! It looks like an awful lot of hours went into that quilt!

Wow that's wild. I love how it's so bright and colorful. Can't imagine how much time and work it took to make it, but it sure looks like it's all paid off.

Very pretty!

Susan, the hardest thing is cutting out all the circles you will have to have to make a quilt. The rest is easy because you can do it mindlessly while watching TV, waiting in the doctor's office, etc. Even after you get all the yo-yos sewn, you can still make the "blocks" and take that with you. I started my blocks out 3 yo-yos by 4 yo-yos until I had the right amount across for the width. Then I sewed them into "strips" and sewed the strips together to make the quilt.

It did take a long time to make. Almost a year because when I first started, I wasn't used to hand sewing so my hands would cramp. Plus of course, life intervenes at times so I'd have to put it aside for a while. It took about a year to make.

Jennifer, I love all the colors and patterns that I used in this quilt. I even helped my best friend sew her yo-yos and she had ordered some pre-cut circles from ebay. When I got them, they were the uglyiest of patterns from the 70s in the box. But once I sewed them into the yo-yos, they were gorgeous! I don't think I will complain about the ugly colors or patterns of fabric anymore, because I will just make them into yo-yos! LOL

Thank you Carmen and Karolyn.

Thanks Devil Woman! Once you get stated making this, it is hard to quit because it really is a mindless project!

wow, it's so impressive! I bet it took a long time!

That is a major project! So how many yo-yo's did you have to make? Just wondering. Good job. Denise

Michelle W. I am apologize for being so far behind it getting to post your picture. Thanks you so much for posting it to WarmingCreations

Denise, I made well over 3,000 2" yo-yos for this quilt. For the next two quilts I am making, I have set my circles as big as my circle cutter will go. I will have to measure the yo-yos after I make some to figure out out big they are so I can figure out how many yo-yos it will take to make them both.

I ironed a bunch of the fabric I washed last week last night. Then I cut a bunch of circles so I can start sewing today. I will still have to iron more fabric and cut it, but I figure this way I don't get too bored doing the same thing day in and day out.