Mother’s Day is fast approaching and I have a couple fun projects to make and gift to your favorite mother! I used the Quick Yo-Yo Makers by Clover for these projects and I had a lot of fun with them.
Have you ever used the Yo-Yo Makers? I never had! Anytime I’ve made them in the past, I did it without the aid of a Yo-Yo Maker and it was not as quick or simple of a project as I wanted. So these were really exciting for me to try! (The included instructions are very clear but here is a great video showing you how.)
Floral Tissue Box Holder
I had been thinking that I wanted to make something useful, but beautiful, with some yo-yo’s. One day as I pulled a tissue from an ugly cardboard tissue box I had the idea to make a little Tissue Box Holder out of fabric and then finish it up with some sweet yo-yo’s.
I’m so excited to share this with you today! I didn’t have a pattern for this so I wrote my own and am happy to share a tutorial with you today so that you can make one too! Best Mother’s Day gift ever!
Necessary Supplies:
- 2) outer fabric pieces cut to size 10″ x 5″
- 2) outer contrasting fabric pieces cut to size 10″ x 4.5″
- 2) lining fabric pieces cut to size 10″ x 10″
- 2) fusible fleece cut to size 9″ x 10″
- 7) yo-yo’s made with size 30mm [Yo-Yo Maker – Small (Art. No 8700)], with buttons hand sewn in the center
- Bordeaux Ultimate Scissors 170 (Art. No 4941)
- Wonder Clips – 10pc/Asst (Art. No 3185)
- Needle and embroidery thread (optional)
Instructions
Step 1: Gather your supplies. Cut your fabric and fusible fleece to the above sizes.
Step 2: Using a 1/4 inch seam allowance sew outer fabric piece to contrasting fabric, right sides together. Do this with all four pieces of fabric, creating two panels for your tissue box. Press the seam towards the bottom contrasting fabric.
Step 3: Fuse a piece fusible fleece piece to each of the panels by ironing to the wrong side of each panel. Make sure it adheres completely.
Step 4: Using a ruler and a fabric marking pen (or even a pencil) draw a 2-1/4 inch “box” in each lower corner of your panels and your lining pieces. Cut the box out and discard. (Be sure to do this with both panels AND with your two lining pieces.)
Step 5: If you would like to add some hand stitching to your tissue box, now is the time. I just sewed a straight line about 1/4 inch above the seam on both panels. Embroidery thread works great for this. (This is an optional step, however it adds so much to the finished project that it is worth the few minutes of time that it takes!)
Step 6: Using a 1/4 inch seam allowance sew the front and back panels, right sides together, at the side seams and along the bottom seam. Do not sew along the boxed out corners. (See stitching above.)
Step 7: Repeat with your lining pieces EXCEPT when you sew the bottom seam, leave a 2 inch opening for turning. (Demonstrated in the picture above by the black lines.)
Step 8: Now we will box the corners of both the outer panels and the lining. Keeping your outer panels turned wrong side out, open up one of your corners and match the side seam to the bottom seam. Use pins or wonder clips to hold in place. Sew 1/4 inch seam along the raw edge. Repeat this process on the other corner of the outer panel as well as the lining corners.
Step 9: Turn your outer panels so that the right side is facing out and push the corners out creating your box. Place it inside the lining so that the right sides are together. You will notice that the lining is a little longer than the outer box and that is on purpose. Just line up the the outer box to the lining along the raw edge and clip them together, being sure to line up the side seams.
Step 10: Sew 1/4 inch seam all the way around that top edge.
Step 11: Put your hand through the opening left in the bottom of the lining and pull the outer box through that opening. It will be a tight squeeze but it will work!
Step 12: Once you’ve pulled the the outer box all the way out, you will need to close up the opening in the lining. Line up both edges, making sure the raw edge is tucked to the inside and sew a small seam as close to the edge as possible. This seam will not be visible once your little tissue box is complete, so don’t worry if it isn’t perfect!
Step 13: Push your lining into the outer box. There will be approximately an inch of lining showing at the top of the tissue box. Iron this until you get a firm crease at the top. I added some more hand stitching along the top and the bottom of the lining seam. This isn’t completely necessary, but it is definitely a nice finishing touch.
Step 14: Place a kleenex box in your tissue holder and lay it on it’s side. Place your 7 yo-yo’s in the shape of a flower along the front of the tissue holder and glue with a hot glue gun.
Step 15: Your Tissue Box Holder is complete and ready to gift!
Yo-Yo Garland
I wanted to include my grand-girls, ages 11 and 8, in a project so I put together a little “kit” of all the supplies needed for making yo-yo’s. I put it on a wooden tray and left it out where every time they came to visit they sat down and made a few yo-yo’s! They had so much fun with it.
So I’d like to share the very sweet project they made for their Momma entirely on their own.
This is a yo-yo garland and the most simple project you could ever make. All you need are yo-yo’s, twine, and a glue gun. You can make this garland with any size Yo-Yo Maker that you desire.
The girls glued two yo-yo’s together with the twine running in between them. You can space them out on the twine as close or as far apart as you would like. They also tied a knot in between each of the yo-yo’s for fun. (If making this with young children be sure to help them with the hot glue!)
I loved this garland so much I had them make one for me too and I hung it in my kitchen on my range hood! It makes me so happy to look at it!
We had such a good time making yo-yo’s of all sizes. We have stacks of them for other projects we are dreaming up!
I hope you will try one or both of the projects shared today and gift them to the special Mothers in your life.
~ Dori ~
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