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Sewing Hair Scrunchies

1 inch = 2.54cm

Once when i was in a shop and bought a new hair scrunchie, i thought why am i not creating my own? I thought about how to make them exactly like my favourite purple scrunchie. I have now lost my favourite purple scrunchie somewhere unknown, but i have many new to use so my lost one isnt missed anymore.

Fabric & Things: Almost any fabric is useful, but silky fabrics will slip out of the hair easily. For a scrunchie of normal size i use 55x15cm fabric, and a 20cm piece of elastic (6mm wide). Because of the small fabric pieces needed, scrunchies material is great to find in the sewing shop scraps place. I dont know if there are such everywhere, but most fabric shops probably get some "leftovers" that sell extra cheap. It can be a goldmine to find pretty (and low cost) pieces of fabric.

Oki, so here is one of my scrap finds, a piece of pink/purpleish stretch velvet i might use for a pillow, a skating skirt, or something else. But now i cut away 15cm from one edge, that will be enough for two scrunchies wich is what i wanted this time, for what...? For pigtails ofcourse.

So with my cut away piece of fabric, i can make two scrunchies i just divide it in half. My pieces i think became 60cm long but it doesnt really make much difference to end result if a fabric piece is 55cm or 60. Longer pieces make more ruffled scrunchies.

Then i fold the short edges toward inside and sew them so they stay where they should be. I usually only do this on one of the short edges, it is for the last hand sewing. If i fold both short edges i think it often becomes too noticeable extra thickness at the short seam.

After the short edges the long fabric edges need some work ofcourse. Just fold the piece with right sides together, then sew it together. When the long side is put together, fold the scrunchie inside out, so the outside comes to the outside.

Then the elastic has to get inside scrunchie. Use a safety pin and put it in one end of the elastic. Safety pin makes it easy to get elastic through the fabric. Keep the elastic end with no safety pin safe from sliding through too, i usually just hold it but one can use another safety pin to secure the first end.

So there, one elastic end peeks out from the starting end, and the other elastic end with safety pin has traveled through the inside.

Now i take a sewing needle and hand sew the elastic ends together securely.

There are ways to create scrunchies with no hand sewing, but i want mine the way i want them, so i do it this way. I want my scrunchies with barely visible seams, and elastic free inside the scrunchie. After sewing elastic ends together, only sewing the short fabric ends together is left. This can be a little tricky depending on wich fabric used. But just put one of the ends inside the other, and hand sew with small stiches all the way around short edge. This makes an almost invisible seam.

A new scrunchie for my hair.

One thing wich can be quite easily done to make variations on these hairthings, is to add a different edge. I will add some little description about that to this page, as soon as i make another like that. Welcome back to the Sewing Room. *hugs*

Sewing Room - Hair Schrunchies - How to sew them - Princess Tessy - Sewing