Diy Hair Towel Wrap With Jersey Knit Fabric

Hi, i'm heather from heather handmade and today i'm going to teach you how to make a diy hair towel wrap. Please, like this video and subscribe to my channel for lots of fun sewing projects, so this hair wrap is not actually made out of a towel. I decided to use jersey fabric just because it's better for hair and you can get it in lots of fun, prints and colors. This is a hedgehog fabric that i just happened to have, and i had a little bit left over and it was the perfect size for this project. I rely a lot on having a good way to hold plop my hair on top of my head. While it's doing a little bit of air drying, so i needed a good wrap for my hair that i could put on and i could snap it in place and it's not like a regular towel that if you bend over it, you know falls out. This is a great project because it only has two pattern pieces you can get them for free on. My blog you'll find the link in the description for this diy hair. Towel wrap we're actually not going to be using towel or towel fabric. We are going to be using um cotton, spandex jersey, it's just better for your hair and it's smoother a little bit more comfortable because it's stretchy. So i have a big piece, this hedgehog fabric, that i'm using for the main circle and then i'm using this mint fabric for kind of the band around the edge. You will also need some sort of closure, so i'm going to be using plastic snaps that i use this these pliers to set the snaps. This is the awl to poke a hole in the fabric. You can also use a button and a loop or any other sort of fastener that you prefer to use. So the first thing we're going to do is to cut out the big circle. So you take your bigger piece of fabric. It'S about three quarters of a yard and you're going to fold it in half one way, then you fold it in half but going the other way. So this is the fold i folded it this way and now i'm going to fold it this way. So this corner right here is all: is the very center there's two folds here and two folds here and then i place my big circle here. So i'm matching this edge needs a fold and this edge needs a fold. So i'm matching this up like this, make sure there's no wrinkles inside and then i will cut it out. Next, i'm going to take my mint fabric, you can use you know if you want to use the same fabric or a different fabric, it doesn't really matter as long as it is a stretchy fabric. I, like cotton, spandex jersey, the best because it's the easiest to work with and it's the easiest to find and we are going to cut the band that goes around. So you can see my fabric actually isn't wide enough, i'm using a scrap piece of fabric. So it's not wide enough, but this needs to go on the fold, so i am going to i'm going to cut this and then i'm going to have to cut another piece of fabric to go on the end. So the first thing we're going to sew is: if you have just one piece of fabric um for the band, then what you would do is you would fold it right sides together like this, and you would just sew this seam. Since i have these two extra pieces, i'm going to have a couple extra seams, so you're going to match up the short ends and pin them together. So so i'm going to sew the seam with either a zigzag or i'm going to search it now. Take this band and you're going to fold it in half. This is the wrong side. You can see the seam you're going to fold it in half with wrong sides together and match up this long edge, and if you want, if it will help you, you can press this to keep it in place. So take your band and we're going to place a pin on either your on your one seam and then we're going to find the center of the other side by holding this pin and stretching out to find the other. The exact other side. Then we're going to line up these two pins and pull on each side to find so that we're dividing this band into four equal sections, so we're finding the four quarters of the band - and this will make it so it's easier to sew it onto the wrap. Now you're going to take the wrap and since it's already divided into four because we folded it twice, i'm going to put a pin here at this fold and then here at this fold then over here there is also two folds. So i'm going to put two pins here, one on each layer. So now, when i open up this big circle, i have my four pins. So now we're going to pin the band right sides, together with the wrap so match up your four pins and pin them together. The band is slightly smaller than the wrap, but that will make it so it's easier to kind of hold on to your head as you're wearing it. So now i'm going to match up two pins to find the center of the band and the center of the wrap and match them up. So, essentially, i'm just going through and pinning the band in between each pin and kind of just distributing it evenly before we sew it. So now we're going to sew all the way around the band. You will have to stretch the band a little bit to fit the wrap behind. You can use a serger or a zigzag stitch on your sewing machine. So so so the band has been sewn completely. On and now we're going to add the snaps, so i'm adding one to the center back and one to the center front and you're going to do one side of a snap on the back and one side of the snap on the front. So let me pick the colors i want so i'm going to add one snap to the center back and it doesn't matter if you, which type of snap you use, except that the back the back the flat part of the snap needs to be on the inside And poke the the thing through and have the the part that actually snaps needs to face the outside the front needs to the snap will actually face to the inside of the wrap. So it's the opposite in the front. So let me show you how i use this, so my hair is really really long. This is a little bit small for someone who has my length of hair, so anyone who has shorter hair it will work better. This will still work for me, but i have to kind of work with my hair a little bit. So what you do is you throw your hair over like this? It doesn't work as well when my hair is dry, so just take that into account as you watch, then i take the back. That'S the part with the seam and the snap that faces out and put that along the back of your head, and you start pulling the band like this around your head, so that your hair is all inside now, since my hair is longer, you can see that The wrap is a little bit short, so i kind of pull my hair up like this and tuck it in then. I wrap my hair up inside like this, then i take my snap as you can see it's right here and i bring it back to the snap on the back. Just like that, and then all of your hair is tucked up inside. You have a nice. You know the band is kind of holding around your scalp. You can see some of my hair is coming out, but honestly it's a little bit harder when your hair is dry to wrap it up inside and there you go. You have your own diy hair. Towel wrap for your wet hair. You