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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

My tutorial on 'Yo yo'

I promised to show you how to make yo-yos. Now I'm posting about it. Yo-yo was originated in England in18th century and was called "camomile". From 1930, it was given the name "yo-yo".


This is not appropriate if we don't translate the word yo-yo into Mongolian. So I suggest it to be called  "khumbaga" as it looks like something called "khombogo", some kind of bag with its opening puckered up and hung from the saddle on a horse. This bag has many uses including transporting liquid in it. The yo-yo, before being flattened, is no different from "hombogo".

Now lets make some yo-yo.
1. First, circles draw on the wrong side of your fabric. You can use a compass to draw out your pattern, or find a bowl or lid to trace.


2. Cut out circles of fabric.



3. Fold under a scant 1/4" along the edge of your circle, as you stitch close to the folded edge. Use strong thread and make sure it's long enough to go around the full circumference of the circle, with some to spare.


4. Use strong thread and make sure it's long enough to go around the full circumference of the circle, with some to spare.



5. Gentle pull your thread. It looks like hombogo.


6. Squash your yo-yo flat, with the gathers centered on the top of the yo-yo. That's it!



I made the ones below.
Making yo-yo, playing yo-yo:)

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