How to sew a hair scrunchie - in DL

[cinnamama]

I hope this works!

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How to Make a Hair Scrunchie


My mother in law asked me to make her a few of these and I had a difficult time finding a tutorial for them so I thought I’d make my own.

You can use knit or woven fabrics. I used all knits for these but wovens work just fine.

Supplies
Strip of Fabric - if using knit fabric cut it 20” long x 4” wide
if using woven cut it 30” long x4” wide

¼” elastic - 9”

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Fold your fabric in half lengthwise and press. (It is obvious I didn’t press this strip!) Stitch along the length of the fabric leaving a 1” opening on each end.

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Turn your tube right side out.

Stitch your short ends together right sides together.

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Insert the elastic. I put a pin through one end of the elastic and push it through, holding onto the free end of elastic. Sew up the ends of the elastic.

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Stitch up the hole that is left. Since the scrunchie is gathered by the elastic and your stitching probably won’t be seen you can just top stitch. I used a ladder stitch to sew it shut.




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[SewManyPatterns]

Awesome, we go through these like disposables around here, alwasy losing them...it'll be nice to use up scraps instead of re-buying them every time I go to the store!

Laurie

[bronzfrog]

Wow. You are the first person that makes Scrunchies like I do.

I do a few things differently though. I use cotton fabric cut 4 to 4.5 inches wide, 2.5 to 3 inches if I am doing them for a small child. The length is 1/2 of the width of my piece of fabric (22" ?) or 1/3 the width for a small child. I think I cut my elastic about 7 inches if I remember right. Not sure of the length for a child.

When threading the elastic through I pin the elastic to the outside of the Scrunchie so I don't accidently pull it all the way through and have to thread it again.