Scrunchies

 

In 2020, we planned to attend a Hawaiian themed gymnastics meet where the girls wear fun leotards, grass skirts, and leis.  I had suggested our level 3 girls all wear the same "fantasy flowers" leotard from Amazon.  It didn't come with a scrunchie.  I found mystique Hawaii blue which matched the flower in the leo nicely and offered to make some matching scrunchies.  The meet was cancelled along with many other things in 2020.  

Fast forward to 2022.  There is another Hawaiian themed meet and because some of the girls still have the fantasy flower leotard and I still have more mystique Hawaii blue fabric, I offered to make some more scrunchies.

What is surprising is that I did very little sewing outside of mask making since that time and no scrunchies at all.  I momentarily forgot what method I used for sewing and what dimensions I had settled on.  Fortunately, I did find a note on the sizing and I had my daughter's scrunchie to measure and verify the construction.

The whole reason I keep a blog is to remind myself of past projects and all the little details I am sure to forget.

Scrunchies

Cut 3.25" x 20"

Cut 8" strip of 3/8" elastic

Sew right sides together the long way leaving the first and last 1"+ unsewn.

Turn right side out.

With the short right sides together, sew the ends together. I saw one blog do this with the scrunchie half way turned out, but I did it all the way turned.

Install elastic and pin to hold.

Sew through elastic.  I use a 3 step zig zag.

Smooth out the side opening and topstitch closed.

Done!  Or in this case, almost done with 21 scrunchies made assembly style.