How To Make Scrunchies

The perfect beginner's sewing project. Really simple to make, with the needed materials readily available.



Here's what you need:



- Scrap Fabric 16" x 4"
- Elastic 7" long - I used the 3/8" kind
- Safety Pin
- Sewing Machine and Thread





Step 1

- Fold fabric in half lengthwise, right sides facing.

- Using a 1/2" seam allowance, sew along the cut edge, leaving 2" at each end unsewn, to make a tube. Remember to backstitch!

Step 2

- Turn tube right side out and spread out the ends.

Step 3

- Fold one end up to meet the other

- Pin the ends together, right sides facing and sew a 1/2" seam. Remember to backstitch!

- You will now have made a loop of fabric like a deflated donut.





Step 4

- Pull on the rest of the loop to pop the seam inside.

Step 5

- Using the safety pin, thread the elastic through the opening and all around the loop.

- Overlap 1/2" of each end (i.e. using up a total of 1" of elastic).

- Stitch the ends of the elastic together.





Step 6

- Fold in the seam allowance of the opening and topstitch the opening shut. Try to sew as close to the edge as possible.

Make a ponytail!

Here's another way of making it if you don't want the topstitched opening.


Variations: This is one way to class it up a little.

- Use two strips of fabric 16" x 2.5" each and sew them together with piping. Then begin with Step 1 to make the scrunchy as usual.

- The piping and coordinating fabrics add something to it, no?

- Here's a child-sized one for littler ponytails. They turn out smaller than the adult one on the left.

- Use a piece of fabric 12" x 3" and elastic 5.5" long and 1/4" or 1/8" wide.

credits to: ikatbag.com