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By: Shelley Rodgers
hair scrunchies
You'll need a piece of fabric that is full width, that is,
from selvage to selvage. Cut off a 5" wide strip. You'll
have a strip 5" wide by (about) 45" long. ANY fabric will
do. Even stuff like netting, knits, lame', *anything*.
Fold the fabric strip in half lengthwise, right sides
together and sew with a 1/4" seam. The width of the seam is
not really important, so don't get hung up on it. The main
thing is to sew the fabric strip into a tube.
Now, turn the tube right side out. Don't worry about
ironing the seam, you can if you want, or not.
Get some elastic, 1/4" wide. Cut it about 10" long. Now
thread the elastic through the fabric tube. The easiest
way is to put a big old safety pin on one end of the
elastic. Stick that end into the fabric tube and begin to
scrunch the fabric over the elastic. Be sure and pin the
*other* end of the elastic to the fabric tube so it doesn't
slip through!
When the safety-pinned end of the elastic comes through the
end of the fabric tube, sew it to the *other* end of the
elastic, so that the elastic forms a circle. I just
whip-stitch by hand. The fabric tube will be *very* scrunched
up.
The open ends of the fabric tube need to be finished off,
so they are nice and neat. All you have to do is tuck them
under (to the inside of the tube). Just fold them to the
inside a little bit, say about 1/2". The amount isn't
critical, but you want the folded amount to stay inside and
not pop back out.
To secure the ends of the fabric tube, tuck one end inside
the other. You can either stitch through all the layers of
fabric and elastic (which will result in a *flat* spot in
your scrunchie; yuck :-( ) or hand-stitch the fabric tube
closed so it forms a tube without being attached to the
elastic inside.
You're done! This results in a scrunchie that goes around
your head. If you want a ponytail scrunchie, cut the
fabric strip 3-1/2" x 22" (so you can get 2 scrunchies out
of a full-width strip) and cut the elastic 5-1/2" long.
Proceed as above.
One very interesting effect is to make the scrunchie out of
small-holed netting or tulle. Just before you sew the ends
of the fabric tube together, pour some fancy confetti
shapes into the netting tube (you know, the loose stuff
that gets put in party envelopes that when you open the
invitation the blasted stuff spills all over the carpet and
is *&^% to get up!!!). This looks *really* neat.
Two very good scrunchie books to look at are:
* Bunchies by Nancy J. Smith and Lynda S. Milligan.
Published by Possibilities, Denver, CO. ISBN
1-880972-03-4, (c) 1992. The price at that time was $7.99,
but WELL worth it. It contains many, many variations and
they are *all* easy to do.
* Hair Wear from Gick Publishing, Inc. 9 Studebaker Drive,
Irvine, CA 92718. (c) 1992. The price at that time was
$5.98. It contains not only a basic scrunchie, but how to
make many kinds of bows for barrettes and hair combs &
clips.