Crochet Ponytail Holders

Hi girls today we're doing a lesson on the ponytail holders. I'Ve got a few out here to show you. This is chain 20, there's 10 on each side of the bead, so you chain 10 place a bead and then you chain down the 10 again. So this has long wavy lots of lots of stitches on that one. So this one is same thing. You can see how big and long little dangles are. It'S chain 10 place the bead chain 10. So these are 20 in length. If you think this is too long for you, you can go to a chain 5. This is excuse me it's chain 10 to there's 5 and then you go back 5, so this would be chain 10 and then join it again to the ponytail. So this is a total of 10, where the others were 20 and if you still think that's too much, you can always just do single crochets all the way around. If you want to just go around a ponytail and just cover the ponytail holder, you could do something like this as well, so I'm going to show you how to get started and the first thing we want to do is take tie a slip. Knot. We'Ve learned this before in class, but basically you're just going to make a loop and the tail is behind the working yarn right here. Working yarn goes to the ball of yarn, so you take the tail and you're going to bring it up into the center, pull on the tail in the working yarn and make a loop and you're gon na put the hook in there. Tighten it up on the crochet hook. Okay, then you're gon na grab your ponytail and just get the yard, on your left hand, so you're getting ready to crochet and take the tail and just kind of let it flow here to the left around around the ponytail. See how that flows to the left? Okay, so then you're going to go in the middle of the ponytail, go right in the center okay right in the middle pull back. Your working yarn and you'll have two stitches on your crochet you're, going to yarn over and take off both okay. So we're going to do this of the chain 5. So we'll do one two three four five! Then I'm going to go back in the center of the ponytail back through yarn over and take off both of those okay. So I'm going to show you a few more times here chain: five: okay, they're gon na go in the center of the ponytail and bring the working yarn back through. So you'll have two stitches on your hook: okay, grab the working yarn and go through both okay and then once you've attached. It just slide it down next to the rest of them chain, 5, again, three, four, five and notice: each time that we go in the center of the ponytail, we're also working over that tail, so we're kind of hiding the tail as we go so go in Bring it back through both of them slide it down chain. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. So I'm going to do this several times, for you guys go in bring it back through. I'Ve got two on the hook yarn over and take them both off one. Two three four: five go back in the center: come back through yarn over and take those off slide it down. Keep it keep your stitches tight together. So so that things you know, so they stay together down here. So you can see how much you still have to get around the whole ponytail. Three four five go in the center, bring it back through yarn over take off to chain 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Ok, go ahead, bring it back yarn over take off 2 and then slide these down. 2. 3. 4. 5. Ok, sometimes I take the loop. That'S on my my crochet hook and I hold it with my thumb, so I can kind of pull it out of the way. So when I go in to bring it back through, then I like might go. Let go of my thumb. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. So I cannot hold that, with my thumb. Go back in to grab the working learn back up. Take them both off slide stuff down. 2. 3. 4. 5. Go in. I get back up. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 can't go in bring it back through yarn over and take them both off slide things down. Ok, so if I ever needed to stop what I'm doing just pull up a really big loop and then you can set this down to do something else, so you can see what this is looking like, it's a really pretty ruffle. That'S all the way around the ponytail holder and I'm going to show you what you do when you get to the end. I'M going to pick up this one over here and you can see how I've made this ruffle, and this is also a chain 5 and I've done this all the way around looks like I would have about, maybe two more that I could put there. So I'm going to count my chains here see the braids 1 2, 3, 4 5 and get us count those again there's. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Ok! So I'm going to put my hook in tighten it up and go down bring my working yarn back through and take them both off and tighten things up slide that down, and I think I'm going to get one more on there. So, let's chain, 5. 1. 2. 3, 4. 5. Ok and then put one more in there, so bring it back up, take two off and I'm done. I don't think I'm gon na get any more on there see how tight that is. Okay. So what I'm gon na do is pull up about. Four or five inches okay, then get my scissors and let's see I thought that I had them here, but I guess they're missing. So let me grab some scissors. Okay, so we're just going to cut the yarn. Okay, we're gon na have about five inches here and then just cut it. Okay then pull this up and then you're gon na get your yarn needle thread this on. Okay and what you want to do is tie it to the beginning, stitches. Okay, so see how I have the yarn needle on here like this and what I'm gon na do. Is I'm going to come through here and pull them together and join and I'm going to go back through and then through the center here? So it kind of ties a knot? Okay, so it's it's joined together, so I've tied it into a knot and I pulled the yarn out of my needle. So I need to thread it again here: okay, so once I've tied them together to where it's joined, then I can just weave it through a few of them and just keep going around the ponytail holder underneath all of those it's definitely easier to do this with A yarn needle okay see how I'm just following it right along the ponytail holder, underneath all those stitches so you're going to want to go for a good four or five inches the further you go, the less chance it's going to have of coming out. So I'm just threading it through okay and then once I get it through several, then I'm just going to cut off the excess right here. Okay and then I'm all done so that's how you complete it when you're all done! Okay, now I'm going to show you how to attach the beads okay, so I go. I'Ve only got just a few more here to complete. You can see. I'Ve just got a few more. So the way that I'm doing the beads is I chain three and then I place a bead and then I chain three again, okay, so I've already got this one done and what you have to do is before you even start. Attaching anything is you have to thread beads, so you're gon na put at least 30 beads on your yarn first, okay. So before you do anything, you're gon na put a whole bunch of beads on there, so I had about 40 on this. So it's better to have more than not enough! Okay, because you never know how many you're gon na get all the way around a ponytail holder, so you're gon na need to put on at least 30 beat and then you're gon na attach the yarn to your ponytail holder. Just like I showed you before. Okay and so then, once you get going, this one is chain three one: two, three okay, then you're gon na get a bead and you're gon na slide it down. Okay, just let the thing slide all the way down and then you're gon na chain again to secure the bead. Okay, then you're going to chain three more one. Two three so you've got basically seven chains, total one, two, three, four, five, six, seven! You see those there's one, two, three, four five, six, seven okay, then go back down and go in the ponytail holder come back through and take them both off to attach it to the ponytail holder. Okay, then I'm going to chain three again. Okay, then I'm gon na get a bead. Then I'm gon na slide it down. Okay, then I got to put the yarn back on my left hand, so I can crochet again chain one to secure that bead and then chain an additional three. So you don't have to do seven, you could do eleven, but I think it's good to do an odd number so that you have a certain amount of number here. Then you've got your bead and whatever you how many ever change that you did before your bead. You need to do the same amount afterwards, so if you've got ten you're gon na chain, five place a bead and then chain five, so you have a total of eleven. So I think it would always be odd numbers if you want your beads to be placed evenly okay. So then, I'm going to chain one two, three pull up another bead slide it down chain, one okay and then chain an additional three more okay. Then I need to go and attach it to the ponytail: go back in pull it up and pull off to chain three and pull up another bead, and this takes a little bit of time, because each time that you slide a bead down, you have to position The yarn back on your left hand to work again, so I'm going to attach the bead by chaining one. Then I'm going to chain three more okay, then I'm almost done looks like, and I can maybe do this two more times slide these down chain. Three. Okay, bring up a bead. Can you chain one to touch the bead then chain? Three okay, then you're gon na go in the ponytail again bring the yarn back through yarn over take off to slide it down. I'M going to chain three bring up a bead again chain, one to attach the bead and then chain three more okay, and then I'm gon na go down and bring it up and take off two, and I think I'm gon na quit well looks like I could Probably do one more: let's do one more chain: three bring up a bead, okay touch the bead by doing one chain and then do chain three more okay. So now we're just ready to finish it. So I'm going to bring it down, bring this up. Okay! So once I attached it to the ponytail holder, remember just bring up about four or five inches: okay, get your scissors cut the yarn and just go ahead and pull it all the way through, so that you've got about a six or seven-inch tail thread on your Yarn needle oops, okay and then you're going to attach it to the beginning one okay, so I'm going to go through here and go back through the middle tie, a knot I'm going to do that again, i careful not to hook any of your beads okay. So now I've got it tied. Then I'm just going to go back this direction and just keep slipping underneath all of those loops that go around the ponytail holder. Okay, just like that, once you've gone a few inches, then you can cut it off. Okay and then I've got one less thing to show you, okay, so there we have finished this one. It'S really cute be very pretty for Valentine's Day. Okay. The last thing I wanted to show you is, if you want to just do single crochets and also by the way you can see, I have like three beads left, then you can just you know, undo those and put them back in your bead box, but I Had put 40 beads on there so, like I said it's better to have more than not enough because I almost ran out of beads, so let me show you what to do if you just wanted to go around a ponytail holder and there's already a slipknot on Here so I'm gon na go ahead and use that Slipknot. Okay, put the yarn, on your left hand, put the tail along the ponytail and we're going to attach it to the ponytail. So I'm gon na go in the middle, bring up the working yarn yarn over and take off okay, and that's basically, all I'm going to do the entire time see what I'm doing. I'M just gon na go in bring it up yarn over and take off to go in the middle, bring it up yarn over and take them both off, and this is basically just doing single crochets around the ponytail holder, and this is how you would put an Edging on blankets, this is what you would do on flip-flops, it's basically just attaching to anything. Am i doing all these single crochets just go in the middle? Bring the working yarn back up you're an over take off two okay. So if you keep doing this, I'm working over the tail see that's the tail there. This is what you get all the way around and then, if you keep going, it'll look like this and what Ruthie did to finish it off, which she took a hook or her. You can use your fingernail and just pulled up with this back loop, just pulled it out like that, made it more loopy, so that kind of gave it a little bit of a flower petal effect, but anyways. That'S what you would do if you just want to cover a ponytail holder and make it look prettier. You could do something like that. Okay! Well, that's the end of the lesson for ponytail holders. I hope you've enjoyed that and good luck and make some for some pretty things for your hair. Bye, bye,