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hey everyone so today we're making scrunchies and I'm really excited about this because Haley
showed me a way to do it that's really really fast and easy it's the fastest
and easiest way I've ever seen to make a scrunchie so Haley's here to show us how
to do it so Haley what makes this so special it makes this a really cool way to sew scrunchies
so in a lot of sewing scrunchies tutorials that I've seen what you're doing is you're creating
your Loop and then you're joining the two ends of that and what is different about this is you
were actually sewing your scrunchie in this kind of continuous loop you're joining the two ends
first and then sewing a continuous loop so it makes it feel kind of like a magic trick I find
it so satisfying to sew and I love teaching people this little trick I love sewing magic but before
we get to that if you're someone who's interested in making your own clothing with more intention
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on notifications so you can follow along with us and never miss one of our weekly videos I really
love sewing scrunchies especially for the holidays because they make such great gifts they're really
easy to sew and it's a great way to use up your scraps because I always have all these really
beautiful scraps laying around I have a really hard time getting rid of scraps especially if
they're really pretty so making scrunchies is a great way to use them up and make something
that's useful for somebody else too so what are you going to show us today Haley so I'm going
to be showing you guys two different things the first thing is how to cut your rectangles for your
scrunchies into the perfect size sometimes this can actually feel kind of like the most confusing
and hard part I'm going to show you my three tried and true sizes then give you some pointers on how
to create custom size scrunchies then I'm going to walk you through all of the steps for sewing this
project all right so what supplies do we need here so first you're going to need some fabric
scraps for your fabric scraps you can really use a huge variety of different types of fabrics velvet
silk you can even use knits what I have here are some yarn dyed Fabrics that are about the weight
of quilting cotton I think quilting Cottons are fabulous for this type of project you need your
scraps to be at least 18 by 3 Inches in order to make a you know decent size scrunchie after that
you're going to need some elastic you can either use quarter inch like I have here or 3 8 inch The
Wider width is better if you have thicker hair and you just need eight inch long lengths of
elastic and then you'll need a Bodkin or a safety pin I personally prefer a vodka but a safety pin
Works totally fine as well I think nailing the size is the hardest part about making scrunchies
so let's get into cutting yeah definitely so I have made a lot of scrunchies and what I have
here are my tried and true sizes so first here I have the what I like to call the jumbo scrunchie
and for this I use a 40 by 6 inch piece of fabric then for my classic size scrunchie I really like
to use a 28 inch by four inch rectangle and for this cute little mini I like to use an
18 inch by 3 inch rectangle you can totally experiment with the sizes of the rectangles
to get different looks but as a general rule I like to keep the height of my rectangle between
three and six inches and the length between two and a half and six times the length of
my elastic it's also worth noting that all of these sizes that I just showed you are based
off of an eight inch length of elastic which is what I have here to demonstrate today if you're
using a different length elastic if you have a lot of hair or maybe you want to make them a
little smaller then you'll want to take that into consideration so first we are going to start by
sewing our rectangle into a loop so we're going to match those short ends right sides together
and we're going to sew I use a 3 8 inch seam allowance when I'm sewing scrunchies foreign
scrunchies I am super lazy and I don't press anything with an iron I find that
a finger press does the job just fine so I'm just going to take my fingers and press that
seam allowance open next I am going to take the side with the seam and face it down on my table
and I have two layers of my scrunchie here the top layer I am going to fold into thirds
just to get them out of the way and then that has revealed the cut edge of oath
of the under layer pieces and I'm just going to fold this in half right sides
together and I'm going to place a pin just at that seam allowance so that it aligns
and what I'm going to do is I'm going to sew along this cut Edge at 3 8 of
an inch and I want to make sure that I'm only sewing through two layers as
I do this I don't want to catch that layer that is hiding away in there
so start with a little back stitch
and sew along this length
then once you get to the point where you don't think you can sew any longer
without catching additional layers you are going to put your needle down
just to stabilize everything and you're going to pull fabric through
and make sure as you do this you're tucking
that inner layer away so you're only sewing through two layers
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foreign then you'll just repeat that action again needle down and pull your fabric through
always tucking away that extra fabric as you go
so you're only sewing through two layers that's really the trick here
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back at your stop your starting point you're going to want to leave about a two inch Gap
you don't need to measure and Mark this by any means just leave something that looks to
your eye roughly about two inches and then do a little back stitch to secure before we turn
this right side out we'll trim our threads so to have good sewing hygiene and now for my favorite
part we are going to turn this right side out so you're just going to reach through that Gap
and pull
out
and you'll have something that looks like this
a continuous loop look my stripes even match so now it's time to put in our elastic so
I'm going to secure my eight inch length of elastic to my Bodkin and I'm going to insert
it through that Gap we left and I like to pin the end of my elastic at the opening
just so I don't lose it now we can feed our elastic through with the help of our Bodkin
and you'll notice that I did not stress about pressing here I think that this is a project
this is the only time you'll hear me say this that pressing doesn't really add a whole lot to
the finished product now I am back at the start I'm going to pin the two ends of my elastic so
that they're overlapping by about a half inch and I'm just double checking that my elastic
doesn't feel like it's twisted if it is Twisted again I don't think it particularly matters
and I'm going to use a straight Stitch to back stitch over the end
of the elastic to secure it a few times so that it's really strong
now all that's left to do is close this little Gap that we've created when we were sewing our
scrunchie so I like to just again use my fingers to finger press this Edge to give it a nice little
crease for me to line everything up with and those raw edges are tucked away inside of the
channel then I Edge Stitch to close it all up then trim your little threads and you are done
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