Like most of my other posts and projects, this one come from a personal need. I have super thin, fine hair and over the past couple years I’ve noticed my hair breaking more and more around my hairband line. I switched to fabric hairbands for a while but they didn’t have enough structure for a messy top knot or high pony.
I saw a few tutorials online for how to crochet your own scrunchie. But most of them had fancy edges, dangles, or “patterns” built into the 2 or 3 rows of crochet. They looked so complicated and intricate for something getting twisted up anyway. I just wanted a simple, straight-forward way to crochet a scrunchie. So here it is!
Materials Needed:
- Thick hair tie(s)
- Yarn. Between 25 – 30 yards depending on the type of yarn used
- A small hook – 4mm for thin yarn or 5mm for chunky/thicker yarn
Stitches you need to know:
*Pattern is written in US terms.
- Chain
- Slip Stitch
- Single Crochet
- Double Crochet
The first step is to tie a tight double knot around the hair tie. Align yourself so that the working end of the yarn is on the left.
Yarn over and insert your hook into hair tie. Yarn over and pull through. Yarn over again. You should end up with the picture on the right. Two loops on your hook and a yarn over. Pull through both loops to create your first SC around the hair tie.
Continue with SC around the width of the hair tie. There’s so defined number of stitches because it will vary depending on size of hair tie and thickness of yarn. Keep stitches loose and aligned. My first few attempts at this project were with thin and floppy hair ties. All of the stitches kept getting twisted and it was frustrating. If you find this happening with your project, I suggest grabbing some thicker, sturdier hair ties.
Continue, continue! Remember to keep all stitches aligned to to outer edge.
When you get to the end, make sure there are enough but not too many stitches. At this point the hair tie shouldn’t be stretched or scrunched. It’s OK if a bit of the hair tie color is showing through. Once in your hair, I promise you won’t see it.
When your hair tie is full of stitches, slip stitch to connect the first and last stitch.
Chain 2 to get the height needed to start the next row.
Starting in the next stitch, put 2 double crochets in each stitch all the way around the ring.
It may start to get a little bit bunchy, but that’s OK! It’s rare that you’ll see that in project instructions, but that’s what a scrunchie is meant to do.
Go all the way around until you come to the place where we chained for the start of row 2. Slip stitch to join row 2.
Chain 2 again to get started for row 3. In this row put 3 DC in each stitch all the way around.
After putting the first few stitches in, it will start to get very bunchy. Again, that’s a good thing! The clustering of stitches is what will make the scrunchie, scrunch.
When you get to the end of row 3, SC to close the gap from the last stitch to the chain 2 that started the row. Snip the end and pull the tail through the last stitch to tie off. Weave in ends.
And that’s it! Even when mine it’s in my hair, I wear it on my wrist. I have to say, it’s more comfortable than a normal hair tie. I think much cuter too!
Great for buns or high pony tails.
