Scrunchie Making Made Easy

Scrunchie Making

It’s that time of the year again where gift giving is at its highest, and what better way to say “I love you” “Thank you”, or even just “I’m here for you” by gifting someone you know and love the gift of HANDMADE.

A couple of years ago I was making scrunchies and it suddenly dawned on me, why am I fiddling around with elastic and long tubes turning in and out and getting frustrated constantly lol. So I turned to my overlocker and thought “Why not just do a rolled hem, like you would on sleeves or a skirt hem?” So my addiction started lol. I had my girls and I making scrunchies to sell in order to buy Christmas Stocking for children who are in Fost

er care and by golly they were a massive hit. We made and sold more than we thought we would and it was such a lovely moment to share with my family the gift of giving to those less fortunate than ourselves.

How To Make Scrunchies Faster and Easier

First things first, you’ll need some stretch fabric, I find Cotton Lycra, Swim

or Sports Performance to be so much softer and nicer to use for making scrunchies. The best part is measurements for these scrunchies can be whatever you choose.

I manage to get 2 scrunchies from the width of my fabric. I start with 5 inches  X 30 inches. This can fluctuate as you want or need. I’ve made slightly narrower ones at 4″ and made wider ones at 6″, The choice is yours.

Then sew your 2 shorts ends together with a 1/4″ SA. I find using my sewing machine better for this step over my overlocker as its not as bulky at the seam join when you go to your hem.

Elastic

This is now another personal choice step, you can use a 6mm braided elastic for this step, but to simplify it more and make it faster I use these hair ties with no metal joins. You can find these online or at your local shops.

Next you’re going to place your hair tie or elastic in the middles of your loop of fabric, keeping right side of the fabric together

Next, you’re going open up the seam so its nice and flat, and join it together,

WRONG sides together. I use a clip here to hold it in place and ready for the next step.

This is what your scrunchie should look like now right before you’re ready to sew your raw edges together. Remember your elastic hair tie is in the middle now and will be enclosed  within your fabric loop

Now for the FUN part, adding your rolled hem. Now settings for every overlocker will be different, but the basics you need to know are:

1. Remove Left needles – rolled hems only using your right needle.’

2. I use Maxilock Stretch in both my loopers, it closes the gaps on the rolled hem to make it look fuller and neater.

3. Set your Diff Feed to the lowest

4. Ensure your stitch length is set to rolled hem and on the lowest number – I use setting 1.

5. As for tensions, this is going to vary depending on your machine, I would strongly suggest using your machines manual to help start you off, then tweak as necessary