How To - DIY Scrunchie

Hola fellow DIY'ers!! In today's post I shall be sharing my wonderful tutorial of how to make your own SCRUNCHIE.
SO YE I FINALLY GOT ROUND TO DOING THIS.

If you, like me are a curly (big haired) girly and the majority of hairbands snap after a weeks use, then scrunchies are a beautiful solution. And they look fab.
My ever growing collection has now branched with matching previous DIY jobs, like my 'Halterneck Top.' Which I have made matching scrunchies for, how adorable. Link for that DIY is heeeeeeeere.
Below are a "small" selection of one's I have previously made, however not all as I couldn't fit them all on my arm:

From left to right:
Velvet, Velvet, Silk, Cotton, Denim, Cotton, Silk, Velvet

YOU WILL NEED:

• Material of your choice
• Sewing machine or a lot of patience
• A needle
• Thread that matches your chosen material
• An elastic band
• Fabric scissors

THE MAKING:

So to start you will need to measure and cut a piece of your material, I normally do it around 3.5" across and 22" wide, but obviously that is personal choice and preference to how thick you want the scrunchie and how 'scrunchie' you want the scrunchie.

Cutting really doesn't need to be neat you wont see any of the seems. The next step is to simply fold the material in half length-ways INSIDE-OUT and pin it vertically. Pinning vertically is magical in the sense that it means you can sew the fabric in a sewing machine without removing the pins as you go along, this is much quicker and ensures the material stays exactly where you want it.

Sew the whole length, and back-stitch the beginning and end so the thread doesn't unravel.

I do this stitching twice, because through previous experience if it snaps, the scrunchie will stay 'whole.'

Now you need to turn the fabric back the right way round, thread it through itself so to speak. And it should look something like the picture below:

Cut your elastic band at one point and then using a safety pin, attach the pin through one end of the band.

Use the pin to thread the band through your 'tube' of fabric, making sure you hold onto the end of the elastic band that isn't attached to the pin.

Then simply tie the elastic in a double knot, checking it fits your wrist snugly with a bit of room to avoid hand suffocation. And cut off excess elastic band as this will just become annoying when sewing up the scrunchie.

Finally, take your matching thread (or as close as you can get) and double thread a needle making sure the knot at the end is large enough that it won't pull through the fabric. Fold 'in' one side of the fabric to make a seem and tuck the other side of the tube inside that tube... if you know what I mean. Then proceed to sew the whole way round, try to only sew the side of the tube you are sewing to the opposite tube as opposed to sewing through all 4 pieces of fabric. Something like this:

ET VOILA, 

la finished scunchie:

*Blue Peter Voice*

[Here's one I made earlier]

Hope that was easy to understand, once you make one you will get the hang of it pretty quickly. They only take me about 10 minutes to make now, from start to finished product in hair.

Anyway, I have gone a little DIY-mad but these halterneck's are so so cute and although I did try (and fail) to make matching shorts I didn't have enough material left so I made matching scrunchies instead. Thinking about maybe selling these, let me know if you would be interested in having one as I can always buy more material!

These tops look quite strange on the hanger, but if you pop over to here or here you can see what it looks like on.

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Baggy Shorts and a Little Feminism

Tie-Dye T - DIY Cropped (you can tell) but used to be GAP (cool)

Shorts - Champion Tennis Shorts... Mens

Bodychain - eBay

Sunglasses - Primark

Necklace - Israel

I've been noticing a lot of 'androgynous' outfits recently and I thought I would jump on the bandwagon and post about one of my own. Androgynous, literally meaning a male with female characteristics and vice versa, has always been present on the catwalk, but is recently becoming part of high street fashion. The Style goes both ways, with Burberry recently flaunting the more chiseled masculine look of Nina Porter on the runway whilst using the extremely feminine Rosie Huntington-Whitely in their beauty campaigns.
Even Vivienne Westwood played with the idea, by putting red lipstick on all her male models at Milan Fashion week. H&M too, decided to launch a unisex 'Fashion Against AIDS' campaign, showing how the disease affects both sexes. Other brands include Wild Fang, one of the 'Top 10 Androgynous Clothing Lines' and Boohoo who made a video to promote theirs:

Anyway, this post was actually inspired by a Blogger called Mika Francis, who posted on a similar topic. (click on her name to see her post) and my friend Ruby, and her blog 'Rubyccino'
But aside from the feminism inspo, feminism, cross dressing and unisex styling is something designers and high street makes have always taken interest in. And now me.

I wouldn't say I am especially interested in Politics as a whole, but after reading so much about women's politics and rights around the time of the local elections I have become much more involved. In particular, the issue of/surrounding feminism. One article I read that was on a group of 16-18 girls really shocked me, it is quite disgusting that in the 21st Century people still don't think its acceptable for women to voice their opinions on matters such as rights and sexuality, worth a read- (feminism). The twitter trending hashtag #yesallwomen opened my eyes to very mundane things women worldwide do that belittles themselves and women around them to satisfy peers and male attention. Like covering up to avoid wold whistles, or telling someone that you have a boyfriend, because everyone knows a man will respect another male's "possesion" more than they respect the woman's disinterest in them.

So anyway, as I casually chilled in this the other day. I thought to myself; this outfit is so 'summer androgynous' and I think it's almost acceptable to wear out, although maybe more beachwear than dining. I know the shorts aren't unisex, they are just men's, but they are so comfy and the perfect balance of boys for girls. This body-chain will be my muse for the summer, it is so tacky n I love it, eBay sell them from china for like £1, you can actually make them yourself, but when they're that cheap it seems pointless to waste time trying to DIY it.

Although I am all for 'dressing for yourself', when wearing something baggy and 'androgynous' I think it will always work best with something dainty and cute, like this crop. I know the sewing looks messy but it actually isn't, I hemmed it and everything. You know when you wear something and it stretches and then looks 'off' well that's what happened, but after wearing this outfit all day I didn't it was worth washing purely for the post, soz.


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Motel Rocks OOTD

Jacket - Levi, Vintage Pop-up Shop, Motel Rocks

Top - Ski gear, thermal.. Sexy

Tights - Primark

Hoops - Spanish Market

Necklace - Israel, the Country not a shop

Shoes - Reebok Classics

Leather Rucksack - Radley

Dog - Archie 

The Sample Sale-

So Danie and I made our way up to Great Portland Street at 10am yesterday morning, which by the way wasn't early enough and we ended up queuing for an hour and a half. But finally we got in, and among the other jumble of 16-18 year old girls, we started to fling through what looked like my room, a floordrobe. Due to the lack of changing rooms, it was a complete madness, but we searched and eventually found a few items we wanted. I did mean to take pictures when I was there but it was too busy and small, and taking pictures of semi naked girls wasn't really what I set out to do. So alas, no pictures of the actual sale, but take my word for it, if you've been to a Kilo Sale before, that's what it looked like.

Anyway, another faux-pas I made was wearing this above outfit... When there aren't any fitting rooms, and only one mirror, wearing an oversized tee with tights was extremely inconvenient. If I had any sense, I would have worn jeans/leggins with a vest, easy changing, no nudity. Alas, no. But anyway, re-discovering this tee was the best moment of my winter, I am aware it's technically summer, but I was cold. And ye, it is lined with fleece, so basically it is perfect. Trainers, standard. Plaits, obviously and hoops, well I didn't want to let Vicky Pollard down. My dog, Archie, decided to get in loads of these pictures... so I decided to dress him up, but he slyly loved it anyway.

The Jacket-
SO
As well as the Motel Rocks Sample Sale, they had a 'Pop-Up' Vintage Shop going on too. This is where I found this jacket, and it was dirt cheap. They had some gorgeous playsuits in reds and purples, but I'm not really the playsuit type so just stuck with the jacket. Denim Jackets are one of those things that never seem to go out of fashion, whether they're tight and small or over-sized like this one. So I basically decided 'why not' and got it. As a girl notorious for 'borrowing' people's clothes, I can't mind when people borrow mine back, however after showing this "unisex" jacket to my Dad, he's decided he likes it and will borrow it... so he will continue to rock the double denim combinations that he is so fond of, good.

But hey! Good news, the sale does actually continue today so if you didn't get a chance to go today and decide that revision just isn't worth the hassle, pop down it's open till 7pm.




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