Fun with Fabric Yo-Yos!

My sister and I went to a craft fair a few weeks ago and saw cute headbands made out of fabric circles.  We had never seen them before and immediately rushed home to try to re-create them.  As it turns out, they have a name: yo-yos.  (I guess this is common knowledge for most crafters, news to me.)

I was finishing up a patchwork skirt for a 5 year old's birthday present and I put a few on a shirt to give the outfit a sense of completion:



A super simple tutorial for the skirt can be found here.  I just followed her basic directions but mine was made with a patchwork style using fabric that I made a quilt out of for the same little girl.: http://www.dana-made-it.com/2011/04/simple-skirt-simple-tutorial.html

 As coincidence would have it a friend of my mom's was getting rid of a big bag of these so my sister got super crafty and decided to sew them on a dress that someone handed down to her.  Apparently the dress had some other ugly flowers on it and she didn't think she would ever dress her daughter in it, but now with the yo-yos on there, voila!  It is tranformed and looks super cute.  Too bad we don't have two of them and her daughter and mine could wear them for the wedding they are going to be in this summer!  Great job, Sis! 

Here are some other fun things to do with yo-yos and the links where they can be found:
Super cute fabric yo-yo pillow: http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2009/08/elizabeths-fabric-focus-yo-yos/


Here is an entire dress if someone is super motivated: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=299010.0


If anyone has their own ideas for using yo-yos of sees some great uses for them, feel free to share!