After making some scrunchies out of reversible sequin fabric, I thought the size would make a nice fidgit toy. My sister had made us fidgit toys using a crocheted tube formed into a bracelet with a marble inside.
I started with a 15" x 3" strip of reversible sequin fabric with the sequins reversing the long way.
Then I sewed the strip into a long tube with right sides together. My machine sews over the sequins fairly easily, especially when they are inside.
Turning the tube right side out took some finessing. I used my hook and also a chop stick. Sometimes the sequin fabric is easy to work with and other times not so much.
I added a 1/4" x 8" of elastic to go inside. First I snaked the elastic through with a safety pin, then I secured the elastic towards each end with a straight pin, and finally I overlapped the elastic ends and sewed them together.
The sequined fabric ends needed to be hand sewn together. But beforehand, I inserted a marble inside.
Then I folded under a small edge of the sequin fabric and tucked the other end inside. Finally I stitched the ends together by hand with a blind stitch.
I have tested it myself along with my family members and then took it to school and some sixth and seventh graders tried it out too. So far the response has been very positive with most people wishing they too had a reversible sequin marble fidget toy.
