Easy Ponytail Holder

He has brought to you courtesy if you courtesy all free crochet calm and what we're going to make today are these cute little ponytail holders for little girls that go in their hair and what I love about this is. It makes a really cute little flower to the few if you twist it like to see you're, eight and then reach under and pull one end through just a little bit believe it or not. That is like a really flat little cute little flower. That could be like with a piece of yarn and your tax renewal could be attached to the front of a purse or or something, and then it doubles as a ponytail holder afterwards, and I just thought they were really cute now. One more thing I want to say about these: you you go to any store like Walgreens, Walmart, CVS or somewhere, like that, and you buy these little ponytail holders that these thick ones not, and I I prefer the stick ones - cuz they're a little bit more sturdy Than the skinnier ones, you could try the skinnier ones, but really these really work the best and another little thing about about doing this, really the only thing young that really works and makes them really pretty and and frilly almost lettuce leaf. Looking like like this is to use the sugar and cream yarn, and I like to use the variegated, because it's really pretty that this is the stripes and all the other ones. I'Ve used is very good. You can just use a plain color, but the variegated really is very pretty and makes them look pretty little girls like bright colors, so those are a lot of fun to do. It really does not work with with other yarns. This yarn is a it's called red horse, soft yarn, it's just in a multi color. It'S a number four worsted weight, which you know the sugar cream is also a worship weight, but it just doesn't give you no matter how tight those loops are in there. It really just does not give you the fluffiness as as fluffy as using the sugar and cream, and you can see the difference here. It'S just it's just not the same, and so it doesn't really look as good. So I I really what need to use that and you think well, switching to maybe using a thicker wait like a bulky weight. Yarn would work but also get there again. It just doesn't work. This is the Burnett super softy chunky, and I did this just so. I could show you and I went ahead and put all my loops and started doing my my change. This is for my loops and it's the same thing, no matter how close they are together. It'S just they're. Just not, you know sloppy wiggly enough and attenders sort of just just sort of stand straight up on edge instead of rustling in on themselves and making themselves making. It look pretty like these, because this is just very, very roughly and very, very pretty, and so just my opinion. The the sugar and cream is just this. It'S just the best yarn to use for this. So what we're going to start out with they're? Very, very simple is a slipknot and I'm using an H hook. You can go up or down a size hook depending on. If you need to, and then you just do a slipknot fit on your hook and then let me just move these out of the way. A little bit so you can see better and then I'm just going to take and hold my working yarn in my left hand and I'm going to go through the rubber band and I'm just going to pull that loop on the other side through the Slipknot that I have on my hook and basically, what I'm doing is just attaching and getting that that beginning just to attach to the rubber band and then all we're going to do is we're just going to single crochet around the whole rubber band and after you do that. First, one you can sort of snug that one up a little tighter if you need to - and I like to just sort of hold my my tail yarn with my rubberband as I go along and as I go through and I hear and start doing my single Crochets all the way around really no no pattern or number of stitches to to put on the rubber band. You just want to get it very full, so you just keep going around around like so, and then you have to like every once in a while. You have to sort of scrunch them up and see I'm pulling that tail yarn, because you want them to be scrunched up as close and as tight together as they can be, and then I'm just going to I've already went under that or over top of that Tail yarn a good bit, so I'm just letting that just sort of hang out hang out there and I'm just sort of holding the the rubber band. The covered rubber band hair thing with my left hand, as I'm single crocheting all the way around, and you like said yes, there's really not a rhyme or reason as as far as like to count you just have to just keep going like. I said this sugar a cream really our peaches and cream, and I would think any kind of a 100 % cotton dishcloth cotton type of of yarn work, but I have tried so many other different ones and I've just been disappointed every time, because it's just they're Not they're, just not fluffy enough, I don't give enough russell's to make it really look. Look good! So now you see it's like I'm almost getting to the end there, but the last thing you'll do. Is you just you still want to just sort of snug those up just a little bit you don't you don't really want to pull the rubber band completely out of shape. I mean you want it, let it relax, but you do want to make sure that you've got a nurse that is completely covered and it'll still stretch. You'Ll still go around the hair, I'm just going to keep going almost to the end. I'Ll show you what you do next, I get one more in there. Okay, so I went all the way around with my with my single crochets and now I'm going to do make start making the little the little rustles. Because you see, I've got my single crochet row all the way around there, and now we're going to make these chain loops that are going to become the actual that makes it look so roughly and so how we do. That is we're going to just immediately start. I'M not turning, I'm just going to immediately start in this next in the next stitch and the next uh. I don't have to turn it around like this. I mean you can turn it around if you want to, but you don't have to, and so now I'm just going to chain 4 and then after I've chain 4, I'm going to go across to that first double crochet, that ideas and going to the top of That I mean, that's, I'm sorry, not double crochet single crochet and I'm just going to single crochet in the top of that single crochet. I did on that first round and then I'm going to chain four again and then I'm going to see how I'm going to sort of pull it with my hands so that I can see the next single crochet and then do a single crochet again one two: Three four pull it apart. So you see the next one. Do a single crochet one, two three four four chains into the next one: do a single crochet one, two, three, four pull it apart, another single crochet, one, two, three, four pull it apart, another single crochet - and you just do this all the way around you're, your Pony tail holder one, actually, I don't think I did a enough service that won't really work, show one two, three four: it just sort of help helps account a lot of times. What I'll do is I'll, while I'm doing my single crochet I'll count, one two, three. Four and then five and really what is it still just four chains, but I've counted pulling through that single crochet as a stitch. But you just continue around doing that single crochet and then the chain four and then the single crochet down into the next single crochet. Just sort of moving as you go and you just continue to do that all the way around until you get to the to this side and then, when you get to this side, you just do a slip stitch down into the bottom of this first place, where You went and just tie your yarn I'll use your tapestry needle and go through it down there and hide your yarn, and you have made your ponytail holder and it's just a lot of fun to make these in the any little girl would just love to have These to put in her hair, so I hope you enjoyed that - have fun and I'll see you next time.