how to knit hair scrunchies with ruffles hi I'm Kristen and welcome back to my
channel Studio Knit hair scrunchies they are a new fun quick
knit pattern that I have for you it's a great yarn busting project and really
fun to make they're great to give as gifts or you could have a scrunchie sale
at craft fairies this holiday season oh and if you are excited to knit up some
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materials we are using worsted weighted yarn any fiber any color and you'll want
about 42 yards we also have this braided elastic that is a quarter inch and some
thread we are using a long circular needle this is size 8 mine is 24 inches
124 inches are longer we also have our tapestry needle of sewing needle safety
pin scissors and some straight pins as well so let's and knit it up we're using
a circular needle because we need all of that length mine here is 24 inches in
length you can have that length or longer and we need all of that length
because we are casting on a whopping 200 stitches and to help you out I
calculated that you should unravel about a hundred and twenty two inches of a
yarn tail before you begin to cast on so you might have some extra long yarn tail
left over but this prevents you from casting on all of those stitches and
running out of yarn right so I hope that's helpful to you and we are casting
on 200 stitches and I think I'll go ahead and just jump to the end of that
for me here and this is what our needle looks like now because we are knitting
straight we don't need to worry about straightening out our stitches we can
leave everything kind of kind of all curled around it's not a big deal
it's an issue because we are actually
knitting straight not in the round now you want to make sure that your yarn
ball is on the right and because you do not want to join you don't want to knit
in the round and you have all of those stitches on the Left needle and you are
knitting them on to your right needle and I make sure that I do not have my
stitches join so that I don't get confused and I don't accidentally knit
in the round because that is what I'm used to doing when I am knitting with a
circular needle so Row 1 is simply knitting the entire row and again we're
gonna fast forward so that you do not have to watch me omit all of these
stitches here and then Row 2 is going to be knitting two together so these 200
stitches we have here will go down to 100 stitches very quickly because
instead of getting that one stitch we're knitting two stitches together two
stitches together so two becomes 1 so we are decreasing by 1/2 just in this one
row row 2 and when you're ready for Row 3 all it is is knitting I'm choosing to
change my yarn here row 3 this is the scrunchie that just has that one little
edge of the hot pink color so I am changing my yarn right here and row 3 is
simply knitting all the way down the row and finishing up row 3 we have one more
row this yarn is so splitty we have one more row row 4 of decreases that is k2
together knit two together and you're just knitting two together all the way
down row 4 so now we have 50 stitches which is much more manageable and you
can see the little ruffles are already forming because they're all all those
stitches are bunched up because we knit so many of them together
now from here row five through 20 is simply knitting every single row just a
knit stitch we are sticking with these 50 stitches nothing else
tricky going on you can of course change yarn color whatever you would like to do
to design your personal hair scrunchie and here is how it looks when we're done
with those 20 rows it's so cute it kind of looks like a little ruffly skirt very
pretty and then we are just going to bind off our edge and cut our yarn now
we want a nice long yarn tail before we cut because we are going to use that to
sew the elastic in side on the edge right there so I'll just take my
tapestry needle get that last little stitch and now we are ready to add the
elastic so here is how the right side looks because I changed colors it's
pretty obvious this is the right side because the edge looks so nice and clean
and then here is the wrong side so I'm going to lay my piece down so that I see
the wrong side facing me and I'm going to cut 9 inches of the elastic and then
place it on the edge and hold it securely with my safety pin so while I'm
sewing it doesn't move around too much and to help with that I'm also going to
use those pins and pin them down from the right side right there and pin it
all the way down to sort of help keep everything stay in place so let's just
say sewing is not my jam so if anybody here is an expert sower and has any
other little tips please leave those in the comments to help people out I am
just folding my knitted worked over and I'm using my tapestry needle in my yarn
and I'm just seaming the elastic into my piece just pretty simply right here just
going back and forth so I'm just gonna grab my elastic there pull it to the end
and continue knitting up my scrunchie and
once I make sure that both of those elastic ends are available for me to
grab I can take out the safety pin and then I can just sew the edges together
and I'm just sewing until I feel that it is nice and secure and then continue
with the tapestry needle and your yarn to just seam up the edges of your
scrunchie weave in your ends cut off those yarn tails and you are done very
very super cute I hope you are inspired to knit up some hair scrunchies if you
do please tag me in social post pictures studio knit hash tag studio knit and I
will see you next time
BYE!