How To Sew A Scrunchie

How To Sew A Scrunchie

Scrunchies are a great way to use up long fabric scraps leftover from other sewing projects.

Here’s how I make mine:

• Draw a rectangle onto your piece of fabric which is approximately 26 inches by 3 inches.  Light to medium weight fabrics are best.

• Cut this out.

• Fold the length of fabric in half, right sides together, pin  and sew the raw edges together.  I’m using a three / eighths of an inch seam allowance.  Start and stop about two inches from either end and remember to back stitch.

• Turn the length of fabric right sides out.  Mine is quite slippery but if you struggle, try using a loop turner.

• Now turn it back on itself again so that the two short ends are right sides together.

• Align the raw edges and sew them together with a three eighths of an inch seam allowance.

• Pull the fabric along until you reveal the gap in the seam.

• Sew this up following the same seam allowance but leave about three quarters of an inch open.

• Make sure you are only sewing through the two seam allowances and not through the fabric inside of the tube.

• Now turn the scrunchie right sides out through the hole that you left.

• Cut a length of elastic about 6 - 7 inches long and thread it through the scrunchie with a safety pin - securing the other end with another pin to ensure it doesn’t get lost.

• Join the two ends of elastic with a zig zag stitch.

• Let the elastic spring back inside the scrunchie.

• And sew up the small gap with some ladder stitches

Let me know below if you sew your own scrunchies! Do you use this method or a different one?