Gingham Plaid Hair Scrunchie

Happy Monday folks! It’s another week of needlework fun and I’m excited to share what I’ve been up to. 😃

I am still working on my mass production of hair scrunchies for the holiday market.

I really want to have a variety of color, styles and sizes for shoppers to choose from. It will help my display table to pop and hopefully entice people to come over and buy stuff 😆.

_{Let the colors mesmerize you into buying 🤭.}

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been consistently making these or not but lately I’ve noticed so many women and little girls wearing them. Scrunchies are truly a beloved hair accessory so I’m glad I chose this project. I don’t ever see any crocheted or knitted ones while I’m out and about so I’m hoping the shoppers will appreciate the uniqueness and effort.

I came across this idea to make the popular gingham plaid pattern for some of my scrunchies. I thought it was a spectacular idea as you really see this pattern in many colors especially during the holiday seasons. I always buy a shirt or a pajama set every year with gingham fabric as I’m a big fan of it myself.

At first the pattern looked a bit intimidating and seemed as if it would take forever just to make one scrunchie. As I went along and followed the pattern it was very easy to catch on to because it’s very repetitive. You are literally making four rows of double crochet and then repeating it one more time to get the fullness of the hair piece.

Here you can see I have completed only three rows of the pattern. The first two rows have full squares of the red colors. That’s the size all the squares will be at the end.

This is what it looks like when all four rows are complete. Looks pretty cool huh? I love that I will be able to customize these with so many different color combinations. Whoo Hoo!! 😄

Now, you just simply repeat rows 1-4 and you’ll be ready to form your scrunchie.

I will say that this one was my first which makes it a practice project. I will not be making any more until I get the softer yarn that I want.

With making these you really need a versatile yarn that is easy to shape. This yarn I had on hand that worked together to make the gingham is very stiff and unfriendly when it comes to shaping lol. The pattern suggests a DK weight yarn.

I also need to purchase a thicker elastic because all I had on hand was this thin size…

If you check out the pattern you’ll see that she used a thicker one and I think that helps it stretch better as well.

So once I get the right supplies I will do a proper photoshoot of the finished product. Since I wasn’t fully excited about the way this one turned out I wasn’t inspired to do a full out photoshoot yet but still wanted to share with you how I’ve been doing with preparations.

I’ll report back once I get a few completed and see how you like them. They are fun to make and I’m glad I came across them. I’m hoping they will be a popular stocking stuffer that people love. 😊