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HOW TO SEW THE BEST HAIR SCRUNCHIES THAT PEOPLE WANT - Great Scrap Busting Project for Beginners
Jan 10, 2025
This video will show you how to easily make the best scrunchies for your hair even if you are a beginner! These can be made with or without a sewing machine. Make loads of them to match every outfit and look super stylish. Scrunchies are better for your hair than simple bands and they are super on trend at the moment.
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hi in this video i'm going to show you
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how to make your own scrunchies
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they're really easy to make any sewer
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can do this
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have them to match every outfit you want
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make them as gifts even make them to
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sell
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so i'm christine of christinescrass.com
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and this channel is dedicated to
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crafting on a budget
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so what are you going to need really
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very little to make your scrunchies
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you're just going to need some elastic
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which
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i've chosen to use 0.5 of an inch wide
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elastic
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it doesn't matter if it's a bit wider or
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a bit narrower whatever you've got
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available
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and you want to cut it seven and a half
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inches long
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now that's entirely up to you you can
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make it a different size if you want you
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can measure round your wrist
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and then add an inch on or you can make
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the standard size that i'm suggesting
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perhaps play around with it make them
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different sizes
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you're also going to need a piece of
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fabric that you're going to make your
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scrunchie out of
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and you want to cut it six inches
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by 28 inches again you can play around
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with these measurements once you've made
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one
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try different sizes make them fuller by
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putting
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making them longer and make them more
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defined
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by making them shorter and narrower but
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that's something to play with later
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firstly you want to take your fabric and
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you want to
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at either end of the length onto the
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wrong side you want to press
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a small hem just two or three inches
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along the length and then the same at
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the other end
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and then turn it over so that you've got
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the right side facing up
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and fold all the way along the length
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okay so either end where you've got your
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little
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hems pressed you haven't sewn anything
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you've just pressed them
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leave that open and then pin the two
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pieces of fabric together you're pinning
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your edges together
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and you're going to do that all the way
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along so remember that we've left
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two inches at the end not fastened
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together
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so we're going to work your way along
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you'll see i've used pins for half of it
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and clips for half of it so it doesn't
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matter how you hold them together as
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long as you're holding them together
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then when you get to the other end
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you're going to find your pressed edges
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again
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and you need to measure about two inches
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they're not exact measurements it's only
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so you've got space to work
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and mark where you're going to sew to
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again
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and you're going to sew all the way
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along that edge
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so take it over to your machine if
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you're using a machine if you hand sew
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these that's absolutely fine it's just
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going to take you longer
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move yourself along until you've got a
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good couple of inches
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and then start sewing
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so you're going to sew a little way
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reverse to make sure it doesn't come
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undone
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and then sew all the way along the
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length
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just take your time work your way along
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get all your clips and your pins out the
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way
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make sure your edges are staying
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together and keep going
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i'm not going to say until you get to
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the other end because remember we're not
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going all the way to the other end
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so keep going until you get to a couple
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of inches from the end
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you'll see your pressed hems and then
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you're going to reverse
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and finish off at the end again it's
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just so it doesn't come undone take it
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out the machine
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and then we're going to have to turn our
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tube out the right way round
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so at the moment the right side is on
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the inside
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and we've got those two open bits at
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either end
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so if you've got a thing to turn tubes
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out one of those devices that you can
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buy great
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if not remember we're doing it all on a
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budget here just find yourself a safety
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pin
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clip it in one end and feed
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that end into the tube and the reason
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you've put a safety pin on is so that
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you can feed that safety pin all the way
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through
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you can feel it with your fingers and
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you can just push it through
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so you can keep pushing it pulling it
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with one hand pushing it with the other
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and keep pushing the other end through
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and work your way all the way along
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until you get that safety pin
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out the other end and then once you
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reach the other end
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you'll be able to just pull that safety
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pin
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and turn it the right way out and then
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take your safety pin away
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and that was just a tool and now you've
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got a tube of fabric
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it's all ready to be your scrunchie okay
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but remember we've got it open at either
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end and so that's what we're going to
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deal with
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now we're going to take either end of
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the tube
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that's six inch length and we're going
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to sew the two of them together
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so you want the right sides facing each
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other
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and you want to make sure you haven't
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twisted the tube as you do this
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it's really easy to twist the tube and
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make sure you don't
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and then you're just going to pin those
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edges together
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and not surprisingly we're then going to
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sew them together
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so this will mean that you have actually
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formed a ring
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with your tube ready to make your
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scrunchie
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i'm just going to sew along that seam
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and as you can see we've made a ring now
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and we've made sure that we haven't
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twisted the tube
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so just take it over to the machine or
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hand sew it if that's what you're doing
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and once again you need a little bit of
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reversing to start with
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so you go forwards reverse and then sew
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along your seam
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just means it won't come undone that's
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not what you want later on when you're
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wearing it
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just work your way steadily along
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and then once you get to the other end
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you're going to reverse
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again just to make sure it can't come
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undone
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and then remove it from the machine cut
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off your threads
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and you're going to be ready to start
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adding your elastic
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so once you've got it out of the machine
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you can see you've got that seam
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just pull either side and it'll
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disappear inside your tube
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but we've left a first nice hole that we
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can now feed our elastic through
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so get your piece of elastic and get
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your trusty safety pin
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and pop it through one end
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and then through that hole you're just
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going to feed it in
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and again you're using the safety pin so
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you can feel it
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all the way along so just keep feeding
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it round
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making sure that you hold on to the
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other end of the elastic the last thing
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you want is that disappearing inside
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so we want to get to the point where
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we've both ends of the elastic poking
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out the hole that we've got left
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so once it's all the way around
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you'll probably have to pull your fabric
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a little bit and adjust it so you can
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get it away
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now you've got your two pieces of
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elastic your two ends of your elastic
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should i say
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and you just need to overlap them
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like that and
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we're going to sew them together so i
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recommend putting a pin in because as
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you go to the machine this is all
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going to try and move and it's all going
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to be a little bit
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fiddly so just secure them with a pin
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or a clip and then sew it
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now there's lots of different ways you
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can sew these two ends together
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i generally form a box so on the square
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where they're overlapped
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run a seam down one side making sure
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you've reversed
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to start with so that it can't come
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undone
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and then go across the elastic at one
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end of your little
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overlap as you can see i've had to turn
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the scrunchie
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and run across there and then again
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turn through another 90 degrees and go
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along the other side
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of the elastic
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and then you're going to go back across
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your elastic to where you started
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and you've basically just formed a
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little box so every time you turn it
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remember make sure your needle
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is in the elastic to hold it in place
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while you've lifted the foot
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and remember to reverse at the end you
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really don't want your elastic coming
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undone later
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so if you're doing this by hand i
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suggest you do a similar technique
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just doing it by hand to make sure there
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are plenty of stitches holding that
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elastic
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and now you'll find you've got something
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looking like a scrunchie
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but we've still got a big hole so
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we're going to remember that we pressed
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those seam allowances
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so it's going to naturally go where we
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want it to go
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i recommend you look where your two
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seams are
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match them up making sure those little
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hems are folded in
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and put a pin in hold that in place
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and then you can work either side of
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that put a couple of pins in or a couple
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of clips on
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just to hold those edges together and
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then we're going to sew that
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shut you have a choice here where you
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could use
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a slip stitch or a ladder stitch some
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people call it and sew the two edges
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together
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invisibly that's probably the tidiest
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way of doing
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this but if you're in a hurry you could
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do like i've done here
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which is just run along that seam edge
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with the machine
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so the choice is yours a nice little
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ladder stitch to make it invisible
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or as i'm doing here take the whole
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thing to the machine
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and run a little seam along the edge and
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i do mean along the edge you're going to
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go right along the edge just making sure
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you catch both edges
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but as close to the edge as you think
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you can go
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again reverse it either end to make sure
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it holds it in place and doesn't come
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undone
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and you're going to have completed your
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scrunchie
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so whether you've done it on the machine
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or you've done it by hand that's the
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last of the sewing
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so make sure you clip off any threads
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so that it's all tidy
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and then there's only one little thing
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left to do you can see we've got that
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seam on the outside there
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we want our seam really to be on the
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inner side of the scrunchie
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so just pull it through so that the seam
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lies
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on the inside of the circle it's just
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going to give you a really nice edge
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when it's in your hair
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it's not going to be any seam out there
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for people to see really
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and there you go you've completed your
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scrunchie well done
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you can make as many as you like make
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them bigger make them smaller
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and you can see when you're not wearing
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it because of the size you made it
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fits nicely on your wrist so when you
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want to take your hair down
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just pop it on your wrist and then
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you've got it available to put back in
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your hair when you want
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so i hope you've enjoyed this video and
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i hope you enjoy making your scrunchies
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watching and good luck with your
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scrunchie
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