The Ultimate Scrunchie Sewing Masterclass

1. Introduction: Scrunchies are cute versatile hair accessory that are fun to wear and gifts. If you want to learn how to make five different kinds of scrunchy, then this is the class for you. In this scrunchy sewing masterclass, I cover fabric selection, essential sewing tools, how to read the sewing pattern, and even teach you how to make your own jumbo scratchy sewing pattern. Hi, my name is Julicia James. I'm a designer based in the United States. I teach beginner sewing at Made Institute of Fashion Design School based in Philadelphia. I'm also a writer and artist and owner of the business Julicia Rose. You can visit my website @juliciarose.com. After taking this class, you will learn how to sew the classic everyday scratchy. But that's not all. I'll also show you how to customize this scrunchy in two different ways. First by making a per-key pop, and then by making a thick glamorous spill with the one you see in my hair right now. This class is bonus lessons including sessions where I teach you how to make a jumbo scratchy and how to make a confetti scrunchy. We will sow with both stretchy fabrics and non-stretchy fabrics. You will need access to a sewing machine for this class. Follow me here on Skillshare so you get updated when I post new classes. You can also follow me on Instagram @juliciarose, where you can see my latest projects and follow my life as a designer, writer, and artist. Let's get started with sewing up these scrunchies. I'll see you in the class. 2. Class Project: For this class, your project can be completed in three simple steps. Step 1, choose a fabric, and upload a photo of it to your class project. Let us know if you chose a woven fabric, or a knit fabric. Woven fabrics are non-stretchy, and knit fabrics are stretchy. I'll go into that more in the fabric selection module. If it's a woven fabric, let us know how you plan to finish the edges of your scrunchie. Step 2, sew a classic or jumbo scrunchie. Step 3, upload a photo of your completed scrunchie to your class project. As a bonus, you may also wish to jazz up your scrunchie. Maybe you add a perky bow, or a glamorous ribbon tie to your classic scrunchie. Or maybe you add confetti on the inside of your jumbo scrunchie. Have fun with it, and do whatever makes you happy for this class project. You can download the supply list and the sewing pattern for this class in the Projects and Resources tab underneath this video. You can access that tab when you're on a laptop, or a desktop computer. Let's go into the next lesson. 3. Sewing Tools: Let's talk about the supplies you'll need. First, you'll need access to a sewing machine. Next, you'll want scissors or a rotary cutter. Make sure you buy fabric scissors. Don't use fabric scissors to cut anything else like paper because that can dull the blade which will make it harder for you to cut through your fabric. A rotary cutter will allow you to cut your fabric a bit quicker than scissors but you'll need a cutting mat like the one my supplies are on here to use a rotary cutter. A safety pin will help you to push the elastic through the body of the scrunchie. Straight pins hold the fabric in place while you sew. Pattern weights are very helpful because you can place them on your fabric to hold it in place while you cut. If you don't have pattern weights, don't worry about it. You can use something heavy like a cell phone or a smooth stone that won't tear your fabric. See you in the next lesson. 4. Anatomy of a Scrunchie: Let's take a close look at the anatomy of a scrunchie. Have a look at this classic scrunchie. It's made up of just three things. Fabric, thread, and then elastic. The elastic is on the inside of the scrunchie where we can't see it. There are quite a few steps we have to take to create the scrunchie. But at the end of the day, it's just made up of these three things: Fabric, thread and elastic. 5. Assembling and Cutting the Pattern Pieces: [MUSIC] In this section, we'll learn the right way to assemble a sewing pattern and how to read a sewing pattern. First things first, download this scrunchie sewing pattern in the Projects & Resources tab below this video. The way the Skillshare platform is set up, I believe you have to be on a desktop to download the sewing pattern. Now, a sewing pattern is a template that we use to lay on top of fabric. It's a guide that tells us how to cut out our fabric. Once we cut out our fabric, we can start to sew it. This pattern piece is the scrunchie base, which looks like this after it's assembled. This pattern piece is the bow of this scrunchie, which looks like this after it is all sewn up. Before we grab our scissors, let's talk about how to cut this out. You can see that there's a solid black line around this rectangle and a solid black line around this rectangle. Then there's a gray line within A1 here and here. This is telling us that we need to cut out both rectangles at the black solid line and tape them together at the A1. Cut along the solid black line of one rectangle. Leave some paper at the end of this rectangle here, because that'll help make it easier to tape the two pieces together. One more thing I want to point out is this test square. This test square should be one inch by one inch if you measure it with a ruler. Sometimes printers can scale down when they print an image. If you measure this test square and it's one inch by one inch, that should ensure that everything is printed out the size it should be. After you have both scrunchie base pieces cut out, tape them together where the A1 is indicated. Tape the two gray lines together. I like to tape the back and the front so that the flap in the back won't get caught on anything. Now, for the bow, there [LAUGHTER] is no assembly required. All we have to do is cut it out on the black solid line. We now have the pattern pieces for our scrunchie base and our bow. Let's talk about the markings on our sewing pattern pieces. First, let's talk about these arrows. These arrows indicate where to place the patterns in relation to the salvage edge of the fabric. The salvage edge of the fabric is the finished edge of the fabric that runs lengthwise. It prevents the fabric from fraying when it's on the bulb and may be a different color from the rest of the fabric. Place your pattern pieces so that these arrows run parallel to the salvage edge. I'll show you what I mean when it's time for us to cut out our fabric. Another symbol that you'll notice on your pattern pieces are these red triangles that are called notches. Notches are where we cut tiny snips in the fabric. They tell us when to start and stop sewing. I'll share more about notches in a future clip. Well done, you've cut out your sewing pattern. Now it's time for us to move on to the fabrics. As a reminder, you can download the sewing pattern in the Projects & Resources tab below the video. See you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 6. Fabric Selection: [MUSIC] There are a plethora of fabrics that exist in the world, but most fall into two main categories, woven fabrics, which are not stretchy and knit fabrics which are stretchy. Let's have a look at this golden silk linen blend, this is a woven fabric, it does not stretch when I pull it, this pink silk charmeuse fabric is knit, when I pull on it, You can see that it has some give, it stretches. Why is it important to know of the fabric you're sewing with is a knit or a woven. Well, how we finish the inside seams of Your scrunchie will differ according to the type of fabric you're using. Woven fabrics fray at the edges, look at what happens when I run my fingers along the edges of this woven golden fabric, the threads immediately start to pop off, You will have to secure these edges with a zigzag stitch, a surging stitch or pinking shears, otherwise, Your scrunchie, will unravel at the edges and could potentially fall apart over time. Here's another woven fabric, You can see that as I pull the edges, threads pop off. Let's think about how we use a scrunchie, when You use a scrunchie, you're constantly pulling at it, put it in Your hair, and take it out Your hair, you're going to want the inside edges to stay intact. However, when you're working with a knit fabric like this sparkly white fabric, there is no need for You to secure the raw edges with a zigzag stitch or a surging stitch. As You can see, this fabric is super stretchy, it's even stretchier than the pink fabric, knit fabrics do not fray at the edges. Let's look closely at this pink fabric, there are barely any threads hanging out. We can see a few tiny threads, but it's not fraying as wildly as the woven fabrics were. There are absolutely no threads popping out of this purple jersey fabric. This sparkly white fabric is uneven at the edges, but when I pull at it, it's not becoming unraveled. You can use both woven and knit fabric to create Your scrunchie, just remember that with a woven fabric, you'll have the additional step of securing the raw edges with a zigzag stitch or a surging stitch or pinking shears. Your scrunchie will come together a lot more quickly if You use a knit, that is a stretchy fabric. I will show You how to sew a classic scrunchie with a knit fabric, and then I'll show You how to make a jumbo scrunchie from a woven fabric, this way, You'll know how to use both woven and knit fabrics to create Your scrunchie. Go to Your local fabric store, ask questions and see which fabrics You prefer, whether it be knit fabrics or woven fabrics. See You in the next lesson [MUSIC]. 7. Cutting the Fabric for the Classic Scrunchie: Now that you've got your sewing pattern ready, it's time to cut the fabric out for your classic scrunchie base. Lay your sowing pattern on your fabric so that the arrow runs parallel to the salvage edge. Go back to the video on assembling your pattern piece if you need a refresher on what the salvage edge is. Here I'm using a scrap of fabric, so you can't see where the salvage edge is. But I know from memory where it was since I worked with this fabric before. I prefer to use a rotary cutter to cut my fabric, but you can use fabric scissors too. Before you cut the pattern piece out, you may want to use pattern weights to keep your sewing pattern from moving as you cut. You can also use something heavy, like a cell phone or a rock if you don't have pattern weights. Now, I'm going to expose the blade of the rotary cutter and firmly press down on the rotary mat to cut through the fabric. You'll want to use a sharp rotary blade for this. If your rotary blade is dull like mine was, you may have to snip off a few threads afterwards with a pair of fabric scissors like you see me doing here. 8. Pinning the Classic Scrunchie: Let's pin our scrunchie base. Ensure that you have all your notches cut out. There should be four notches. Make sure you have your pins close by. We're going to fold this fabric in half with the right sides together. The right side of the fabric is the side that has the design on it. If your fabric doesn't have a design, the right side of the fabric is the side that perhaps is shinier or looks more pleasant than the wrong side. The right side of the fabric will be visible when you finish your scrunchie and are wearing it in your hair. This is the wrong side of the fabric which will not be visible after we finish sowing the scrunchie. Let's fold this fabric right sides together aligning the notches. Use pins to pin in between the notches from notch to notch. I like to pin the notches first so I have a guide of where to start and stop pinning. Once these two notches are pinned, I add pins in between. Great. O we've pinned our scrunchie base. Let's move on to sewing on our sewing machine in the next lesson. 9. Sewing the Classic Scrunchie Base: Let's sew our scrunchie base. Ensure that you have your scrunchie pinned right sides together from notch to notch. Use the right stitch for your fabric. Since I'm using a stretch fabric, I'm going to use a zigzag stitch. If you are using a woven fabric, use a straight stitch. We're going to sew with a quarter inch seam allowance. This means that your needle should be a quarter-inch from the raw edge of your fabric. I put my needle down, slide out the first pin, and start to stitch. I remove the pins as I go so the needle doesn't get caught in them. Remember to backstitch at the end to lock your stitches in place. Since I used the knit fabric, I can move right on to the next step. I do not need to finish the raw edge. However, if you used the woven fabric, that is a fabric that is not stretchy, you will need to finish the raw edge with a zigzag stitch or an overlap stitch. You can see that for this golden woven scrunchie fabric, I'm overlocking the edge. Go back to the lesson on fabric selection for a refresher on why this is important for woven fabrics. As you can see, I stitched right up until the notch. My stitching is from notch to notch. You'll see why this is so important in the next lesson, when we turn the scrunchie inside-out. 10. Turning the Scrunchie Inside Out: Now that we've got our scrunchie base also, now we're going to turn it inside out. We want the right side of the fabric to be facing outwards. Now, grab one end of the fabric and start pushing it upwards with your fingers like you see me doing here. I'm also pulling the fabric up with the fingers of one hand. This is why we only sewed in-between the notches to facilitate turning this scrunchie inside out. You can see I've already done half of it. This takes a little while so you can play some music or have your favorite YouTube videos or stay calm on, in the background. This part takes some practice. I'm slowly pulling the fabric out. Remember to enjoy the process. Our scrunchie is completely turned inside out with the right side of the fabric facing out. Next, we want to fold our scrunchie in half and pin the lower edges together with the right sides of the fabric together. We're going to sew the scrunchie base shed. Grab your pins and pin the lower edges together. It should look like this when you're done. We will stitch these edges together with a quarter-inch seam allowance. When you finish stitching the short edge, it should look like this. Notice I stitched with a quarter-inch seam allowance. I did not finish the edges since this is a knit fabric. Pop the short edge into your scrunchie by gently pulling on either end of this scrunchie loop. You should now have a loop that looks like this. This is what we'll put our elastic into. See you in the next lesson. 11. Cutting the Elastic: Let's cut out our elastic for our scrunchie. Cut a length of elastic that can comfortably and snugly fit around your wrists. Remember to account for seam allowance. If six inches comfortably fits around your wrists, cut around 6.5 inches. This will account for the length you will lose when you sew your elastic together or tied in a knot. I'm cutting around six inches of elastic. Here, I'm checking to see whether it's a good fit by putting it around my wrist and just moving my wrist back and forth. Don't be afraid to cut another length of elastic if the first length you cut is too short. See you in the next lesson. 12. Inserting the Elastic into the Classic Scrunchie: [LAUGHTER] We made it to one of the most exciting parts of your scrunchie make game journey. You have the base of your scrunchie and now it's time to grab your elastic. Get out your elastic and we're going to insert it into this scrunchie base. You're going to see the magic of what happens and how it turns into this scrunchie once we add the elastic. Grab a safety pin, and you're going stick it into one end of the elastic. Once you've done that, you're going to close the pin, so you've got your safety pin on one end of the elastic and the other end is free. Now, pick up your scrunchie base, and you see this part that we left open, the part that has this gap here, you see that? We're going to grab the safety pin end of the elastic and shove it up [LAUGHTER] that scrunchie. Just put it inside and you're going to push the pin in through the fabric. You see what I'm doing here, I am sewing it through the scrunchie base. As I push the pin up, you see the fabric is all scratched up, so cute, turning into this scrunchie. You're just going to pull the fabric down a little bit and make sure you hold onto this elastic tail. Another thing I want to mention is try not to swivel or rotate the elastic too much. You don't want it to be too twisted in here. Again, I'm going to push up the pin in here. The fabric is going to go and switch it up. Then I'm pulling down the fabric, making sure my right hand is holding on to the other elastic end. I'm just going to do that until I see the pin again. There's the pin [LAUGHTER], so I'm pulling it through, and there we go. It's already looking like a little scrunchie, look at that [LAUGHTER]. So cute. This is like one of the most exciting parts of making a scrunchie when it actually starts to look like the thing it's supposed to be. Now, that the two elastic ends are added the scrunchie fabric, I am feeling through the fabric of the scrunchie, feeling for the elastic to make sure it's not too twisted in there. So huge deal if it's super twisted but I just like to doubt my eyes and cross my Ts. Now, I'm going to remove this safety pin, being careful that I don't lose the elastic tails back inside the scrunchie, so I take that safety pin out and we've got our two elastic tails. What we're going to do next, is sew a secure zigzag stitch over this. You can honestly just tie this in a knot and be fine. But I prefer to sew it, not necessarily because it's more secure just because I feel like it's a clean finish and this is just what I like to do. I'm going to head to the sewing machine and I'm going to sew a zigzag stitch on this. Let's pop over there. 13. Completing the Classic Scrunchie: Let's complete our scrunchie. First, we're going to sew a zigzag stitch over the elastic. Then we're going to sew our scrunchie shed. I am sewing the elastic shut here with a zigzag stitch. Here, I'm pulling on the elastic to make sure it's secure and won't pop open. It's pretty secure but I'm going to sew one more zigzag stitch parallel to my first stitch for extra security. Remember to back tack. Here it is my completed elastic. Snip any loose threads that you see. Now, tuck the elastic loop into the scrunchie. Fold the raw edges of the scrunchie inward like you see me doing here. Try to make sure that the seams are aligned. It's almost going to look like a little mouth. Sew your final stitching as close to the edge of the scrunchie as possible. We're not sewing with the quarter-inch, seam allowance, we're sewing right on the edge of this scrunchie. Use a zigzag stitch for knits and a straight stitch for woven fabric. Hurray, you've now completed your classic scrunchie. Congratulations. Now, it's time to try it on. Wear it in your hair, wear it as a bracelet, show it off. But remember, we still have more to cover. I'm going to teach you how to add a perky boat to your scrunchie, how to pattern drop a luxurious ribbon, how to create shear, jumbo scrunchies, and together, we'll even make a confetti scrunchie, which is one of my favorites. I can't wait to welcome you into the next lessons. See you there. 14. Anatomy of a Bow: This is a per-key bow which can be knotted around your scrunchie as acute detail. Your bow is made up of three main things, fabric, thread, and wire, which is inside the fabric. For your wire, use 20 gauge beading wire found at your local craft supply store. Let's cut into our fabric in the next lesson. 15. Cutting the Perky Bow Pattern Piece: [MUSIC] Let's cut the wire that goes inside of our bow. I'm using 20 gauge beading wire to give our bow that nice perky shape. Cut seven-and-a-half inches of the beading wire. I'm measuring seven-and-a-half inches on my cutting board. Once you've cut it out, pinch the ends of your wire back into a small loop with your thumb and forefinger. This will prevent it from poking through the fabric of this crunchy. You can cover this loop with electrical tape for extra security if you'd like, but that's optional. [MUSIC] Now, let's cut the fabric for the bow. We can cut it in a single layer or folded. I'll show you both ways. I'm using a rotary cutter, but not in these corners of the bow because they can be tricky to cut. You'll need a pair of scissors, whether they're large scissors or smaller scissors to cut into those crevasses. I'm going to start cutting with my rotary cutter. If the blade of my rotary cutter doesn't quite catch the fabric, I just use these smaller fabric scissors to cut them. What I'm going to do next is glide my rotary cutter around the edges like these twin peaks here and make a rough cut around this pattern piece. After I'm done with that, I'm going to grab my scissors, and I'm going to snip this little triangle shape out with my pair of scissors. [MUSIC] [LAUGHTER] Voila. I've just showed you how to cut out your bow as a single layer. Don't forget to snip out your notches because we're going to use those as guides later on. Now, I'm going to show you how to cut out this pattern piece on the fold of the fabric. Some of you may find this method easier. You only need to cut out your bow once, so just choose the method that works best for you. First things first, fold your fabric in half if you want to cut on the fold. I'm using a scrap of fabric here, but you can see it's folded in half. Then I fold the pattern piece in half as well. Place the fold of your pattern piece on the fold of the fabric. Add your pattern leaps and once you have those on, you'll just take your rotary cutter or scissors and cut along the edge. Stop once you get to the fold. Once you've finished cutting along the edge, take your scissors and snip the two red notches. Since I've already cut out my bow, I'm not going to use this fabric for that. I'm going to save it for another project. Here, I have my bow pattern piece, which is all cut out and here's the wire. Now's a good time to make sure it fits within the bow. I'm checking the length and this looks good here. I'm going to set the wire to the side for now. Fold your fabric in half, right sides together. Align the notches like we did for the classic crunchy piece Grab pins and pin the bot fabric, right sides together. Now, let's get to our sewing machine. We're going to start from this edge to the notch and then from this edge to the notch. See you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 16. Sewing the Perky Bow: An alternative to using pins would be these quilting sewing clips. You can use pins and sewing clips interchangeably. I'll show you how I remove these clips as I saw. Start sewing at the corner of the bow to the notch with a quarter of an inch seam allowance. I'm sewing down to the notch and removing clips as they go. Be mindful that clips can weigh down your fabric, which can result in cricket stitches. That's why I folded up the bow, so the fabric isn't weighed down by the clips. I'm being careful not to stitch into this excess fabric that I folded up. Here's what it'll look like when you saw the first side of the bow. Let's sew the next side of the bow. First, I sew one side of the corner. Then I gently pivot it and remove this clip. I'm just looking at my fabric, making sure everything is laying flat and nothing is twisted. Now I'll continue leaving a gap in the middle. Here's what your bow should look like. I did not sew past the notches, so there's an opening for us to turn the bow inside out. 17. Completing the Perky Bow: There are four steps we need to follow to complete our bow. First, we're going to turn it inside out. Then we're going to iron it so the fabric lays nice and flat. Next we'll insert the wire inside so it has that a nice perky shape. Finally, we will sew it shut. Our bow is sewn up apart from this little gap. Let's turn it inside out, just like we did with the scrunchies base. First, I turn on one side of the bow and inside out then I'll turn the other inside out. When you turn your bow inside out, it should look like this. We want sharper corners than this for our perky bow, so grab a point turner or a pencil. This is a point turner, and here's my pencil. I'll show you how to use both. Take your pencil and gently guide it towards the tip of the bow. You're not shoving the pencil in, you're just massaging the fabric over the tip of the pencil. If you shove the pencil in, that could damage your fabric. With the point turner, it's the same concept. Ease a pointer enter into that corner to gently create a crisper corner. Now, let's press the bow. I press my bow with my iron. Now I'm grabbing my wire. You'll see the two ends of the wire that I've bent earlier. Go back to the cutting the bow pattern piece module to see that. I'm sliding one end of the wire into one end of the bow. You may need to bend it like you see me doing here to fit it into the other end of the bow. That's all right. We'll straighten the wire out after it's snugly fit into this bow. Now, I'm straightening the wire out and making sure there are no bumps inside. Remember this opening here. Let's sew that shut. As this is a knit fabric, I can use a zigzag stitch or a triple straight stitch, which is a stretchy stitch. Triple straight stitches use a lot of thread, so i don't use this stitch often, but it's a great stretch for knit fabrics. If you want a straight stitch that has stretch. For a woven fabric, just use a regular straight stitch right on the edge. So we're not sewing with a quarter inch seam allowance, we're sewing on the edge. Go slowly and take your time. Here we go. Stitches right on the edge. Our bow is complete. We made our perky bow, we completed our classic scrunchie, and now let's put the two together. Tie the bow around your classic scrunchie once, making sure that the wire is unequal sides of the bow. You see where the stitching is on your scrunchie, tie the bow around that stitching to hide it. I can feel that there's more wire on this side of the bow than this side, but that's okay. It gives it some character. Now, I'm just going to hide these stitches by folding it over like that. Voila, there you have it. An adorable little scrunchie with a perky bow. I love it so much already. In the next lesson, I'll teach you how to make a jumbo scrunchie. These giant beauties, dwarf of classic scrunchie and they're so much fun to create. I'll see you in the next lesson. 18. Bonus Lesson: Create a Sewing Pattern for the Jumbo Scrunchie: The anatomy of a jumbo scrunchie is the same as the anatomy of a classic scrunchie. The only difference is that a jumbo scrunchie uses a lot more fabric and thread. Surprisingly, it uses the same amount of elastic. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to create your own sewing pattern, so you have a template to make a jumbo scrunchie. Grab some scrap paper. Using a ruler, measure 7 inches by 17 inches. Mark this rectangle using your ruler. Then, we're going to cut out this rectangle. After you cut your rectangle, draw an arrow, as indicated in this diagram. Right cut on fold on one short end of the rectangle. The total dimensions of your jumbo scrunchie when you cut it out will be 34 inches by 7 inches before it's sewn out. However, to save on paper, we're going to use this cut on unfold trick. When you advance to the next lesson, you'll see what I mean. This is what your pattern piece should look like so far. Now, your final step is to add notches on each long side of the sewing pattern piece, about 2-3 inches from the short edge. This will indicate where we will start and stop sewing. Awesome. Let's get out our jumbo scrunchie. See you in the next lesson. 19. Bonus Lesson: Making the Jumbo Scrunchie: There are four steps to make the jumbo scrunchie. [MUSIC] These are the same steps we followed to create the classics scrunchie. First, let's cut out the fabric for our jumbo scrunchie. Here is the jumbo scrunchie pattern piece that I made. You'll notice that I forgot to add notches to my pattern piece, but please remember to add them to yours like I showed you in the last lesson. Take a look at the fabric. It is folded in half and I placed my pattern piece right up against this fold. I'm going to cut it on the fold using my rotary cutter, but first I'm going to add two pattern weights. I have these fun pattern weights that I got from Etsy that looked like donuts. This fabric is very slippery and silky, so I need to keep my pink and purple pattern weights on the edge of the fabric so it doesn't move around while I'm cutting. Cut your fabric. Because we cut it on the fold, you should now have a rectangle that's 34 inches long by seven inches wide. [MUSIC] I'm removing the pattern piece and as you can see our fabric is double the size of our pattern piece, 34 inches long by seven inches wide. After you finish cutting out your fabric, remember to snip your notches as indicated on your pattern piece, about 2-3 inches from the short edge. I refolded my pattern piece because [LAUGHTER] I forgot to snip my notches. I'm going to snip those notches now. [MUSIC] Next, fold your fabric in half with the long edges together. Pin in between the notches, just like we did for the classics scrunchie. Stitch in between the two notches, just as we did for the classic scrunchie with a quarter inch seam allowance. [MUSIC] Here we have the body of the jumbo scrunchie sewn up in between the two notches. I also finished the edges with a zigzag stitch. The raw edges won't fray since this is a woven fabric. Now, it's time for us to turn our jumbo scrunchie inside out. Put on your podcasts while you do this part as it's going to take awhile. This is a lot of fabric. [MUSIC] Now that it's inside out, I'm pinning the short edges right sides together in preparation to stitch them at the machine. Just as we did for the classic scrunchie. [MUSIC] The short edges of a jumbo scrunchie are all stitched up with a quarter inch seam allowance. I also finished the edge with a zigzag stitch. [MUSIC] If you're using a woven fabric, remember to also finish these exposed edges of the long side of the scrunchie separately. It's better to do that before you stitch the short edge, but if you forget, that's okay. You can always go back and fix your mistakes. Now, I'm going to push the short edge inside like that. Now you should have a loop that should look something like this. You can see the gap and the seam that we sowed, which is right here. [MUSIC] Now take your elastic and cut it the size of your wrists, taking into account a quarter inch seam allowance. You're going to cut it just like we did for the classic scrunchie, and you can go back to that lesson for a refresher. You're going to take this elastic and [LAUGHTER] put it in this huge tube. I know your elastic looks tiny in comparison to the jumbo scrunchie, but that is [LAUGHTER] what makes it a jumbo scrunchie. You have tons of fabric in relation to your elastic. Trust the process, everything is going to work out. Pop your pin into the elastic and insert the elastic pin side in first into the jumbo scrunchie. Make sure not to lose the tail of your elastic. You want to keep this and out of this scrunchie. [MUSIC] While you do this part, you may want to have a funny YouTube video on or an audio book playing in the background. Once the elastic is inside your scrunchie, remove the safety pin and stitch your elastic shut or tie your elastic an a nod. Now, just as with the classic scrunchie, the final step is to stitch your jumbo scrunchie shirt, fold it in by a quarter of an inch and so it shut. Remember to stitch on the edge just as we did with the classic scrunchie, as this is a woven fabric I will be using a straight stitch. All right, my laws, we're done with our jumbo scrunchie. Aren't you excited? I love this. How does it feel? I'm super stoked with the way this came out. It's so fluffy [LAUGHTER] and glamorous all at the same time. I use a straight stitch to close it shut, but you can use a slip stitch for a cleaner finish. There are tons of tutorials on YouTube. Teaching how to sew a slip stitch by hand. [LAUGHTER] The jumbo scrunchie could eat the classics grungy for breakfast. It swallows it whole. [MUSIC] Next, I'm going to show you how to create a ribbon tie for your classic scrunchie. After that, we're going to make the confetti scrunchie. I can't wait to share more of my scrunchie secrets with you guys. See you in the next lesson. 20. Bonus Lesson: Create a Ribbon/Scarf Sewing Pattern: I'm going to show you how to customize your classic scrunchie with the ribbon. First, we'll need to create a sewing pattern for the ribbon. Which is pretty simple. We're going to use our classic scrunchie base sewing pattern as a template. We're going to fold the corners of the pattern down on each short edge. Then you'll have a new ribbon pattern. This simple alteration will give us a ribbon shape. Now, I'll use my rotary cutter to cut out my fabric. You'll want to cut out two pattern pieces out of your fabric. You can lay two pieces of fabric on top of each other and cut them both out in one go. I'm cutting out one layer of fabric at a time, since I'm using fabric scraps that are oddly shaped. Here's my first half of the ribbon all cut out. Now, I'm laying the pattern piece on another section of this beautiful gold fabric and cutting out a second pattern piece. Layer pattern pieces together, right sides together and pin them. I'm going to take this to the sewing machine and sew all around it, leaving a 2-3 inch gap on this edge. So we can turn it inside out. Snip two notches where the gap will go so that you'll remember to leave a gap while sewing. Here are my two notches. See you in the next lesson. 21. Bonus Lesson: Completing the Ribbon Tie: There are four steps that we're going to walk through to complete the ribbon. The first step is to sew the ribbon leaving a small gap in the middle where we placed our notches. At the sewing machine, put your ribbon under the needle right at the notch. I'm carefully stitching with a quarter inch seam allowance. For crisp corners, raise your pressure foot of your sewing machine, leaving the needle in the fabric. Pivot the fabric so the pressure foot aligns with the edge of the fabric. Then sew until you get to the next corner, repeat. Remember to remove pins as you go. [MUSIC] As you can see, I've sewn up the ribbon, leaving a gap where the notches are. [MUSIC] I'm going to clip these corners. Be careful not to snip into the stitches. When we turn the ribbon inside out, there will be less bulk in the corners so they will be nice and crisp. As this fabric is a woven fabric, I'm going to have to finish the edges so they don't unravel on me. You can finish your edges with a zigzag stitch or an overlock stitch. Another way is through using pinking shears. These are pinking shears. They cut a zigzag into a fabric which makes it less likely to unravel. Use it like you would any other pair of scissors. Afterwards, turn the ribbon inside out like we did with the perky bow. Use a point turner to get crisp edges for your ribbon tight corners. Now, let's press the ribbon so it lays flat. You see this gap? Let's stitch that shut right on the edge. We are not using a quarter inch seam allowance. We're stitching as close to the edge as possible. We've finished creating our ribbon tie. Now, let's tie it around our classics scrunchy base. We're going to tie it around where the stitching is for our scrunchie to hide those stitches. Tie it around the scrunchy base once. We made it. Now we've got four different scrunchies down pat. A luxurious ribbon tie scrunchie, a classic scrunchie, a scrunchie with a perky bow, and a jumbo scrunchie. Let's put everything that we've learned together and adventure to the final frontier. We're going to make a confetti scrunchie. See you in the next lesson 22. Bonus Lesson: Let's Make a Confetti Scrunchie: All right, you guys. We've reached the part in our scrunchie-making journey where we're going to make the confetti scrunchie. What you're going to need for this is a jumbo scrunchie. Create the jumbo scrunchie, and you're going to want to make it in a fabric that is see-through. Get a transparent fabric, it doesn't matter if it's stretchy or if it's a woven non-stretchy fabric, that's fine. I used a stretchy mesh fabric that is white and has little sparkles in it. I don't really remember where I got it from, I've had it for so long. Once you've made your jumbo scrunchie, make sure you don't close it. You want to get to the part where you've done everything but stitch the finishing stitch. After you've done that, you're going to want to put pompoms in it. These are craft pompoms. I got these online, I think I got them on Amazon, but you can get them at your local craft supplies store. They are fuzzy so they look, I don't want this fall, but they look like this. They're super fuzzy and you can squeeze them. We're going to pack your scrunchie with them, your jumbo scrunchie. I think these confetti scrunchies are so fun because you can really fill it with anything like I'm filling mine with pompoms because they're soft, they don't make noise, and I feel like it would be really cute as a bracelet, but if you are watching this during Halloween, closer to Halloween in October, you might want to fill it with little spiders or googly eyes or something like that. I think the confetti scrunchies really fun to commemorate the season. Or if it's someone's birthday, you could fill it with actual confetti, I think. Places like Dollar Tree sometimes sells confetti that says happy birthday in scripts, and you can put those in the scrunchie too. Those are just some fun ideas for you. Let's get into the next video. I'm not going to show you all the way how to make a jumbo scrunchie because we already covered that, so let's go into the next video. 23. Bonus Lesson: Filling the Confetti Scrunchie: To make your pom-pom scrunchy, you want us up yours scrunchy until you're at this point. The point where you sewn up the base, insert the elastic and sown elastic in a loop or tied it in knot and you don't want to close it off. You just want to get it to a point where it's mainly sewn up and you're at what would be the last step to sew it up. But we're not going to sew it up because now we're going to add [NOISE] pom-poms [LAUGHTER] I'm just grabbing a handful. You've got a whole bunch of pom-poms everywhere. We're going to fill this scrunchy up with these pom-poms. Put them in your jumbo scrunchy. We're going to fill it so that you can see them. We're going to put a decent amount in but we're not going to fill it to the maximum capacity, because if you fill it too much, that it might be hard to actually wear your scrunchy on your wrist. This so fun you can see inside. You know what this reminds me of when you were a little kid, and you would go to those indoor amusement places like Turkey to use and they would have those, what do they call it? Ball pits. Yeah. We're making a ball pit, but [LAUGHTER] in a scrunchy. Let me see. It looks like we could use some more pom-poms here. I'm going to push these down with my finger, and some of them might fall out, like is happening now, that's okay. We are going to get those back in there. Right now I'm focusing on filling this area here. I'm pushing pom-poms further down, with two fingers of my right hand and using my left hand to help facilitate that. [MUSIC] Let's see. We simply fill this a little bit more, but it is getting better. [LAUGHTER] You are going to make a mess in this process, but that is okay. [LAUGHTER] [MUSIC] Look at that. I think this is so fun. You might want to do now is instead of directly sewing it up, you might want to base it first and see what the scrunchy looks like with all the pom-poms and if you want to add more or if you want to take some out and have less. I'm going to baste this. A baste stitch is a loose stitch that's temporary, which will take out eventually. I'm going to base this with a long stitch. On your machine to do basting stitch, you can use a straight stitch with a length of four and that's usually long enough so that you can take it out easily. I'm going to do that and see where we are with this scrunchy and I'll be right back. 24. Bonus Lesson: Completing the Confetti Scrunchie: Here is our pom pom confetti scrunchie and I think it's so cute and so fun because it reminds me of a ball pit and confetti and a pillow all at once. It's just so fluffy. Remember we're not finished with this yet we just close it with a basting stitch. That is a temporary stitch. We use a temporary stitch because we want to see how does this scrunchie look on our wrist. Are there too many pom poms? Are they too little? I wouldn't necessarily put this in my hair because I feel like there are too many pom poms and this scrunchie is mainly meant as an accessory for your wrist, like a bracelet. Especially if you fill it with something hard like plastic spiders, they might be hard to wear in your hair. Let's see what this looks like on my wrist. I think this is so fun. [MUSIC] You could even selectively choose the color pom poms if you were making this for Valentine's day, you can put pink and red. If you're making it for Christmas, you can put green and red. If you are making it for pride month, you would probably put well all these colors. Yeah, it's just like so fun, I love this. I think this is just the right amount of pom poms in here for this confetti scrunchie. I'm going to carefully take out these basting stitches with my seam ripper. Then I'm going to sow the scratchy shut with a permanent stitch. For this knit fabric, I can use either a zigzag stitch or a triple straight stitch, which is stretchy. [MUSIC] I'm taking out the base things stitches here. [MUSIC] Now I'm stitching the scrunchie shut. I'm being careful to remove the selling clips as I go. I'll speed this bit up for you. [MUSIC] Here we have our pom pom confetti scrunchie which looks a little like a doughnut. Imagine if donuts were translucent and had sprinkles on the inside. If they were, this is what it would look like. [LAUGHTER] This is so fun. I'll see you in the next lesson. 25. Final Thoughts: We've made it to the end of our scrunchie making journey. I hope that you had a lot of fun making all the different scrunchies. Together we learned how to make five different scrunchies. A classic scrunchie, a scrunchie with a per-key bot, a scrunchie with a ribbon tie, a jumbo scrunchie, and a confetti scrunchie. Scrunchies are so versatile, they make a great project for a beginner sewers, but they're great for advanced sewers as well because you can customize this hair accessory to your liking. I hope you enjoyed taking this class and that you've learned something new. If so, please remember to leave me a review and I would love to see your scrunchies. Please remember to post photos of the fabric selection that you made and also your completed scrunchie. Thank you so much for joining me and for taking the ultimate scrunchie sewing masterclass. Until next time.