Want a quick and easy gift for a female friend? Are you looking for a quick project to use up scrap yarn? Make a scrunchie in less than an hour!
Steps
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Make a chain 10 - 12 chain stitches long. Pass one end of the chain through the hair band, and slip stitch the two ends of the chain together to form a loop. You will want the loop to go through the hair band so that you have two interlocked circles. This will be the "base round".
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Make 3 chain stitches. Hold the base round horizontal with the 3 new stitches standing upright.
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Work a treble stitch (see warnings) into each of the remaining chain stitches on the base round. When you reach the end, work a slip stitch from your current stitch to the third chain stitch from Step 2 to form a round.
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Repeat Step 3 ten to twenty times. You will notice that you are making a tube that encases the hair band. The tube will follow the hair band around into a circle.
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When your tube has followed the hair band all the way around to the beginning again, it is time to attach the two ends. Check that your last round will reach the bottom of your base round without stretching. You may be tempted to cheat, but this will result in a scrunchie that looks small and flat rather than a full, ruffled scrunchie.
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Join the two ends of the tube into a doughnut shape. You can do this by sewing with a blunt wool needle. Break off the yarn, leaving about 40cm of yarn from the hook. Thread a blunt needle onto the end of the yarn and sew the two edges together. Make sure that the stitches on both rounds line up so that you get a smooth join. Tie a knot in the end of the yarn, break off the yarn leaving about 10cm left, and pull this thread to the inside of the scrunchie.
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You have just made a scrunchie!
Tips
- Use different types of yarn to get different textures. Fun fur yarn, chenille, ribbon and mercerised cotton will all produce different textures. However, textured yarns are generally more difficult to work with than plain or smooth yarns.
- To create more volume or ruffles in the hair band, make a longer tube on the same sized hair band.
- To jazz up a basic scrunchie, you could glue or sew on sequins, beads or other ornaments or embroider a design.
- If you are a more advanced crocheter, you can make a smoother join by placing the two edges next to each other (both facing up) and work a round of double crochet (one wrap around hook) stitches, putting the hook through BOTH edges to work them together.
Warnings
- Crochet terminology changes between countries. If you have learnt to crochet in the United States, you will know the stitch used here as a double crochet stitch. If you learnt to crochet in the United Kingdom or another Commonwealth country, you will know this as treble or triple crochet. The stitch used in this pattern is the one that requires you to wrap the yarn around your hook TWICE before pushing the hook through the work.
Things You'll Need
- Basic crochet skills. If you can form a treble (or double, see warning) stitch and you can crochet in the round, you can make a scrunchie.
- A crochet hook (for 8-ply or double knitting yarn, as being used here, you will need a 3mm - 4mm hook).
- 8-ply yarn. A ball of yarn the size of your fist (or about 30 grams) should be plenty for this project.
- A hair band.
