How to Sew Hair Scrunchies

Hi, in this video I'm going to show you how to make your own scrunchies

They're really easy to make. Any sewer can do this. Have them to match every outfit you want

make them as gifts, even make them to sell. So I'm Christine of Christine's Crafts.com

and this channel is dedicated to crafting on a budget. So what are you going to need

Really, very little to make your scrunchies. You're just going to need some elastic

which I've chosen to use 0.5 of an inch wide elastic. It doesn't matter if it's a bit wider or a bit

a bit narrower, whatever you've got available. And you want to cut it seven and a half inches long

Now that's entirely up to you. You can make it a different size if you want. You can measure

round your wrist and then add an inch on or you can make the standard size that I'm suggesting

Perhaps play around with it, make them different sizes. You're also going to need a piece of fabric

that you're going to make your scrunchy out of and you want to cut it six inches by 28 inches

Again, you can play around with these measurements. Once you've made one, try different sizes

Make them fuller by making them longer and make them more defined by making them shorter and narrower

But that's something to play with later. Firstly, you want to take your fabric and you want to at either end of the length onto the wrong side, you want to press a small hem

Just two or three inches along the length and then the same at the other end

and then turn it over so that you've got the right side facing up

and fold all the way along the length. Okay, so either end where you've got your little

hemps pressed, you haven't sewn anything, you've just pressed them, leave that open

and then pin the two pieces of fabric together. You're pinning your edges together

And you're gonna do that all the way along. So remember that we've left two inches at the end

not fastened together. So we're going to work your way along. You'll see I've used pins for half of it

and clips for half of it. So it doesn't matter how you hold them together as long as you're holding them

together. Then when you get to the other end, you're going to find your pressed edges again

And you need to measure about two inches. They're not exact measurements. It's only so you've got

space to work. And mark where you're going to sew to again. And you're going to sew all the way along that edge

So take it over to your machine if you're using a machine. If your hand sew these, that's absolutely fine

It's just going to take you longer. Move yourself along until you've got a good couple of inches and then start sewing

So you're going to sew a little way, reverse to make sure it doesn't come undone

and then sew all the way along the length. Take your time work your way along get all your clips and your pins out the way Make sure your edges are staying together and keep going I not going to say until you get to the other end because remember we not going all the way to the other end

So keep going until you get to a couple of inches from the end

You'll see your pressed Hems and then you're going to reverse and finish off at the end

Again it's just so it doesn't come undone. Take it out the machine and then we're going to have to turn it

turn our tube out the right way round. So at the moment, the right side is on the inside and we've got

those two open bits at either end. So if you've got a thing to turn tubes out, one of those

devices that you can buy, great. If not, remember we're doing it all on a budget here. Just find

yourself a safety pin, clip it in one end and feed that end into the tube. And the reason you've

put a safety pin on is so that you can feed that safety pin all the way through. You can feel it with your fingers and you can just push it through

So you can keep pushing it, pulling it with one hand, pushing it with the other

Keep pushing the other end through and work your way all the way along until you get that safety pin out the other end

And then once you reach the other end, you'll be able to just pull that safety pin and turn it the right way out

Then take your safety pin away and that was just a safety pin away. That was just a tool

And now you've got a tube of fabric. It's all ready to be your scrunchy. Okay

But remember we've got it open at either end. And so that's what we're going to deal with now

We're going to take either end of the tube, that's six inch length

and we're going to sew the two of them together. So you want the right sides facing each other

and you want to make sure you haven't twisted the tube as you do this

It's really easy to twist the tube and make sure you don't. And then you're just going to pin those edges together

And not surprisingly, we're then going to sew them together. So this will mean that you have actually formed a ring with your tube ready to make your scrunchy

We're just going to sew along that seam. And as you can see, we've made a ring now

And we've made sure that we haven't twisted the tube. So just take it over to the machine or hand sew it if that's what you're doing

And once again, you need your little bit of reversing to start with

So you go forwards, reverse and then sew along your seam. just means it won come undone that not what you want later on when you wearing it just work you a steadily along And then once you get to the other end you going to reverse again just to make sure it can come undone

And then remove it from the machine, cut off your threads. And you're going to be ready to start

to be ready to start adding your elastic. So once you've got it out of the machine

you can see you've got that seam, just pull either side and it'll disappear inside your tube

But we've left a fair size hole that we can now feed our elastic through

So get your piece of elastic and get your trusty safety pin and pop it through one end

And then through that hole, you just going to feed it in and again you're using the safety pin so you can feel it all the way along

So just keep feeding it round making sure that you hold on to the other end of the elastic

The last thing you want is that disappearing inside. So we want to get to the point where we've both ends of the elastic

poking out the hole that we've got left. So once it's all the way around you'll probably have to

pull your fabric a little bit and adjust it so you can get it away. Now you've got your two pieces

of elastic, your two ends of your elastic, should I say. And you just need to overlap them like that and we're going to sew them together

So I recommend putting a pin in because as you go to the machine this is all going to try and move

and it's all going to be a little bit fiddly. So just secure them with a pin or a clip and then then sew it

Now there's lots of different ways you can sew these two ends together. these two ends together, I generally form a box. So on the square where they're

overlapped, run a seam down one side, making sure you've reversed to start with so

that it can't come and done. And then go across the elastic at one end of your

little overlap. As you can see I've had to turn the scrunchy and run across

there. And then again, turn through another 90 degree. and go along the other side of the elastic

And then you're going to go back across your elastic to where you started

And you've basically just formed a little box. So every time you turn it, remember, make sure your needle is in the elastic to hold it in place

while you've lifted the foot. And remember to reverse at the end

You really don't want your elastic coming undone later. So if you're doing this by hand, I suggest you

you do a similar technique just doing it by hand to make sure there are plenty of stitches holding that elastic and now you find you got something looking like a scrunchy

but we've still got a big hole so we're going to remember that we pressed

those seam allowances so he's going to naturally go where we want it to go I

recommend you look where your two seams are match them up making sure that

those little hems are folded in and put a pin in. Hold that in place. And then you can work

either side of that, put a couple of pins in or a couple of clips on, just to hold those

edges together. And then we're going to sew that shut. You have a choice here where you

could use a slip stitch or a ladder stitch, some people call it, and sew the two edges

together invisibly. That's probably the tidiest way of doing this. But if you're in a hurry

you could do like I've done here, which is just run along that seam edge with the machine

So the choice is yours. A nice little ladder stitch to make it invisible. Or as I'm doing here

take the whole thing to the machine and run a little seam along the edge. And I do mean along the

the edge, you're going to go right along the edge. Just making sure you catch both edges

but as close to the edge as you think you can go. Again, reverse at either end to make sure

it holds it in place and doesn't come undone. And you're going to have completed your scrunchy

So whether you've done it on the machine or you've done it by hand, that's the last of the

sewing. So make sure you clip off any threads so that it's all tidy. And then there's only one

little thing left to do. You can see we've got that seam on the outside there. We want our

seam really to be on the inner side of the scrunchy. So just pull it through so that the seam

lies on the inside of the circle. It's just going to give you a really nice edge when it's

in your hair. It's not going to be any seam out there for people to see really. And there you go

You've completed your scrunchy. Well done. You can make as many as you like. Make them bigger

make them smaller. And you can see when you're not wearing it, because of the size you made it

fits nicely on your wrist. So when you want to take your hair down, just pop it on your wrist

and then you've got it available to put back in your hair when you want. So I hope you've enjoyed

this video and I hope you enjoy making your scrunchies. Please give me a thumbs up below and any

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for watching. Good luck with your scrunchy