How to Make a Basic Scrunchie, Plus a Variation.
Recently there was a fun, in house, colour team challenge at my daughter's gymnastics. The girls were put into 6 teams, each of which was allotted a different colour; then the parents had a mad dash to try and get gym wear and accessories in that colour for their daughters. As gymnasts have to wear their hair up most of the time, they like to wear scrunchies to add a bit of fun to that severe bun, so I usually make them for the women's gymnastics to sell as a fundraiser and the box was nearly empty. While we were decorating scrunchie making had been on hold, but now I have my sewing machines set up again, I thought I ought to get some of those colours topped up and it seems I timed it well. The orange and yellow ones disappeared almost as quickly as I put them in. They're not an easy colour to find.
I have a couple of main methods I use to make scrunchies, depending on the fabric, and this is the one I've been using at the moment. I start with a long strip of fabric. The size depends on how scrunched and volumous you like the scrunchie to be. I like it long enough that the fabric stays scrunched even when it's been stretched around a bun a couple of times and wide enough that it shows, rather than disappearing into the hair. This strip is approximately 9cm (3.5in) wide by 60cm (2ft) long:
Fold it lengthwise, with the right side facing in and sew down the edge to create a tube.
I use a safety pin to help me turn it the right way round. A safety pin also helps me to thread a 20cm (8in) long piece of elastic through the tube, gathering the fabric up as I go.
Then I stitch the elastic together and hand stitch the ends of the scrunchie using ladder stitch, keeping the seam on the inside.
As you can probably see, the finished scrunchie in this picture actually has a second colour along the seam. I achieved this by sewing in a narrower strip in a different colour. That strip was about 2.5cm (1in) wide and the same length as the main fabric. Sew it, again folded lengthwise, inside of the main fabric, but with the wrong sides facing instead of the right sides.
I hope this all made some sense. I don't often get time for sewing much, these days, so it's nice to fit a little project in now and again.
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The orange ones are really pretty, no wonder they evaporated XD
Your gymnasts have to do their hair in buns? Ours are two braids. They still love their scrunchies in training though XD (and my child and her gaggle have started wearing scrunchies as wrist and ankle bands because yes?)
Well, when they're that pretty, why not?!
Every club is different. Girls at ours can get away with just looping it for training, if it's not too long, but they encourage buns because that's what they mandate at competitions. As the skills get harder, not having bits flapping around becomes more of a priority for them, as a plait in the face can become painful, so they generally move over to buns by choice anyway.
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It’s great to have another seamstress join us! I’m taking in all notes while I am learning how to sew. I love the shiny velvets you use for the scrunchies. I really like how you added an additional color, it looks really good. I’m glad you were able to get some sewing in and hopefully you’ll be sharing with us again soon!
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Thank you for the welcome. I don't often get time to sew much these days, so may not be able to join in often, but I want to try to remember to check in more often on the tags. I still love to pick up new ideas and tips.
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Awesome that’s great to know! We’ll be here whenever you want to stop by!
One hobby I intend to pick up when I finally have the time.
Time is so elusive! We live in hope of that day of retirement when we have more of it, but it's becoming less and less likely...sigh.
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Wonderful tutorial and cute scrunchies. I wear them the hole day and your color choices are so refreshing (instead of all the black ones). I also tried to make one from scrap fabric, but being my usual impatient me, I used a much too short stripe of fabric and ended up with a weird litte ball 🤣😂
So, thank you for this detailed explanation.
Haha! Yes, putting together lots of little scraps didn't work out how I envisioned it when I did that, either! These days I try to incorporate the smaller bits in with larger stretches. It seems to balance the look better. I had a couple of strips the right length, but not really wide enough, recently, so I sewed them together to get the width and that ended up looking good. A bit like that one with the seam.
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This is a clever technique, maybe I will give it another try. I am currently sewing a sweatshirt and the scraps are so cute (in my eyes) in teal with burgundy....
In my mid-late teens my mum made thousands of wheatbags as a side hustle.
They were only just getting popular, and she did alright out of it. I remember because I was the guy who hauled the big sacks of wheat around :)
Family business, eh? Perhaps I should enlist the help of my girls. 😁
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