Diy Giant Scrunchie + Hairband // Hair Accessories With Fabric Scraps

Okay, so here's the thing i've been spending a lot of time on instagram and pinterest. Recently, i've been seeing a lot of these like oversized scrunchies and like different hair accessories like those hair bands that are like fabric - and i think they're really cute. So i went ahead and i checked like some of the stores here i can show you like look at how cute this is like look at that, so these are some of the things that i've been seeing a lot of recently and i really want my own. I think these hair accessories are really cute and i've been trying to sew a lot recently like, like i've, been trying to learn how to make my own clothes. I'Ve been trying to learn how to pattern. I'Ve been trying to learn how to use different fabrics and all those things um. I don't have a lot of sewing experience. I'Ve made a few things, but because i'm trying to learn i've accumulated a lot of fabric scraps. So i would, i thought that it would be a good idea to use them to make smaller things like scrunchies and these other hair accessories, that i keep seeing all over pinterest and instagram. The thing is, i don't have a plan on how i want to do this, but i'm going to in a way wing it um yeah. So let's get to it. So a scrunchie is basically a long tube of fabric around the piece of elastic. So to start. First, we're going to cut out a rectangle from this fabric, strap a quick tip to make it easier to cut straight. You can fold the fabric over itself several times, so you end up making one shortcut on several layers of fabric the size of the rectangle. For a normal scrunchie is three and a half by 22 inches. Then we're going to fold it down and sew it right sides, together with a sewing machine. Okay. So now, once you have this tube it'll look like this. I then cut an eight inch piece of elastic to put inside, so it's so easy. So basically, what you want to do is we're going to be turning this tube inside out. Putting the elastic inside um sewing the elastic shut and then sewing the scrunchie shut. I used a safety pin to turn the fabric inside out, so i just attached it to one end and folded through the entire piece. I use the same technique with a safety pin to pull the elastic through the tube, pinning it to one end so that it doesn't get lost. While i pull the safety pin, i closed off the elastic with a bunch of forward and backward stitches to make sure that it was secure. Finally, i just folded the raw edges of the scrunchie down and sealed that, together with a straight stitch across, you should end up with something that looks like this and there you have it uh scrunchy tada. Yes, this little ponytail is weird. I just did it for the sake of demonstration, so yeah, so this is a normal size crunchy, but i really want to make the oversized crunches so now that we have this small scrunchie, we're basically going to do the same steps to make the oversized crunchy x Up with a lot more fabric, i'm going to be using this fabric, it's already kind of big, so i want to do a piece that is um instead of three and a half inches in the mini scrunchie. I want to do nine and a half inches down there, then we're gon na do 40 inches instead of 22.. So for this small scrunchie we basically did um three and a half inches by 22 inches. So for this i measured out nine and a half inches by 44.. If you don't have a piece of fabric, that's this big, especially if you're working with scraps um. What you can do is you can overlap some of the fabrics and then you can stitch them down. So what we're going to do is we're going to follow the same steps, we're going to sew it into a tube right sides together if your fabric is like that turn it inside out and put the elastic inside. So now that i have it turned inside out, i'm gon na take another eight inch piece of elastic and then i'm going to pin it down in one side just so that it doesn't um get lost when i pull it out, the other. Oh, my gosh. Look at how pretty this is so far: okay, so now we're just gon na sew, the two elastic shut. So to close it. What you can do is you can take the two seams, so here's one and here's the other, then you can pin it down and then you can just sew it inside. Okay, after you do that, you should have a little bit of space that you can no longer machine sew, so i'm just gon na hand stitch this with um a needle and some white thread. Actually i think it's really messy. I don't really. I really hate hand stitching, so what i'm just gon na do is i'm gon na sew really close to the edge with a straight stitch to seal it off, which shouldn't be seen just because of how much fabric there is all over. So here it is the oversized crunchy for reference. This is the small one we made earlier. It sits like this on my wrist just like this, and here is how both of the scrunchies turned out. She'S a mona lisa everyone's lining up to see it. There must be something bad so, on tech talk, i've been seeing a lot of people wearing these fabric, hair bands and i think they're super cute. I know that they're really simple to make so to make use of my scrap fabric one last time. Let'S make a cloth hairband so to make the final diy of this video, which is the cloth hair band. I'M going to be using this piece of scrap fabric that i use to make masks when i was cutting it. I already kind of had the idea that i wanted to use the scraps of this for a hair band, so i left this so basically again, i cut this into a rectangle with a length that would fit almost completely around my head. I followed the same technique as earlier. I folded the fabric on itself and cut it straight across. I then folded it into a tube and sewed that right sides together along the longer edge and turned it inside out. I then measured how long of a piece of elastic i would need to connect the two ends together to make it fit around my head completely. I made a second tube twice as long as that piece of elastic and pinned it to each end of the fabric. Tube, i sewed it down with a lot of forward and backward stitches and turned it inside out. Finally, i connected that scrunch, the tube to the actual hairband with a straight stitch and here's how the hairband turned out paired with another montage of me being really excited about what i mean, so that's it for this video. I hope that this was helpful or informative. One way or another, thank you so much for watching and i'll see you next time. Bye,