An Elegant Sufficiency

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Frequent visitors to my photo a day blog may recall the entry from February 25, which showed a few "yoyos".  They form part of a scarf, given to me by my good friend Fanny, who had bought it on her travels in Thailand recently.

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I wore the scarf for the first time yesterday and  received the frequently asked question "is it your work?"  Of course not - I counted those yoyos and found there were at least 500 in it and they are not the quickest thing to make.  But when I got home, I thought a bit and remembered something in my cupboard.

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I love the little Clover gadgets and remembered buying these yoyo makers in Cheltenham one morning last year. I was not really surprised to find that I'd bought the "extra small" size too - I  love tiny things and always go for the smallest size available.

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My eyes fell on another part of the packaging.  doesn't look too challenging, does it?

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Sunday afternoon, then, and nothing on the agenda. I found a few small squares of quilting fabric which had been samples from a display, gathered needle, thread and scissors and opened the package to find the detailed instruction sheet.

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Quite a bit there...but hang on....

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...there's more.

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Oh, good grief!!  How difficult could it be?!  Fortunately I noticed something before I decided to give up completely

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Half that sheet was the French translation - German and Spanish on the other side, too.  Phew.  I gathered my stuff together and made a start.

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 Very small pieces of fabric are required, which would make this an excellent project for using up all kinds of tiny bits or recycling a few odds and ends.  I could get four yoyos from one sample square of this fabric (and I had about twenty sample squares...my mind was racing ahead to another scarf)

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The templates make cutting the circles really easy.

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and the stitching is a cinch when there are holes to guide every in and out of the needle.

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The hardest bit is interpreting the almost-too-comprehensive instructions - after a while, I decided to go it alone.

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After all, what's the worst that could happen?

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I gathered up the tiny circle and pulled tight, securing the yoyo with a knot as instructed.

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Tada!  One complete, tiny yoyo - albeit not exactly circular.  But hey, practice makes perfect...

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Half an hour later, seven tiny yoyos!

But what of the other 493 for the next scarf?  Well, to be truthful, I'm a bit bored with making yoyos now!

(I might make a few more, together with some slightly larger ones and decorate a T shirt or something.  We'll see...)