How to Make a Scrunchie (and Some Memories in the Process)

When my grandmother passed away last year she left behind a massive collection of decorative handkerchiefs. My sister and I divided them up between ourselves and the ones I took have been sitting on a shelf in my closet collecting dust ever since. 

When I started working with Nickelodeon® this year to coordinate the Middle School to the Max party for the BlogU conference, I thought about Grandy a lot. My grandmother would have loved everything that BlogU stands for. She would have loved to see the connections that women were making with each other, she would have loved that I own my own business, she would have loved the creativity and the energy and the learning, and even the “creative language” that sometimes finds its way into the presentations.

I wanted a way to take her with me this year, at least in spirit. So I took one of those fancy decorative handkerchiefs and I cut it into pieces. I knew she wouldn’t care. I could just hear her saying, “Go ahead, I was only going to blow my nose in the thing.” I turned it into a scrunchie because the theme of this year’s party was #MiddleSchoolAwkward and when I was in middle school in the 90’s I always had a scrunchie on my wrist, many of them I made myself with the very method I’m about to show you. So in honor of Grandy and her fancy hankies, here is how to make a hair scrunchie: 

What you need:

• 2 long rectangular strips of fabric, about 3 inches thick.
• 1 strip of elastic, the diameter of the scrunchie you’d like to make
• 1 safety pin
• thread
• a sewing machine or needle

1. Place the right sides of the fabric together and sew the long sides together, leaving both short ends open. 
2. Turn the fabric tube you have created right-side-out.
3. Attach the safety pin to one end of the elastic and slide the elastic through the fabric tube, “scrunching” the fabric as you go.
4. Sew the ends of elastic together and place the elastic inside of the scrunched fabric.
5. Sew the fabric shut and you have yourself a genuine homemade scrunchie.    

Last Saturday night I took my newly made scrunchie with me and I wore it proudly on my left wrist all night during our Middle School to the Max party. We celebrated the premiere of Nickelodeon’s ® new show 100 Things To Do Before High School ™ and decked ourselves out in our most awkward gear. I even bought fake braces for the occasion. It was a blast and I was glad to have the memento with me to remember Grandy by.

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Nickelodeon®. All opinions are my own.