How to Crochet Around a Rubber Band
You can make your own hair scrunchies by crocheting yarn, crochet cotton or embroidery floss around a regular rubber band. Crochet technique allows you to work in rings and circles, covering round objects with fiber. Crocheted scrunchies are a quick craft project ideal for using up extra bits of yarn. You can use any weight of yarn, from thin sock yarn to bulky wool. Worsted weight yarn is a medium thickness and works up fast using a basic single crochet stitch.
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Instructions
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Make a slip knot and hang it on your crochet hook just behind the hooked end.
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Insert the hook into the center of the rubber band so that the slip knot is in front of the band and the hook is behind it.
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Wrap your yarn counterclockwise around the hook, or from left to right.
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Pull the hook underneath and to the front of the rubber band so that you have two loops on the hook. The hook with the two loops on it will be on the side of the band closest to you. The working yarn will be behind the rubber band.
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Lift your hook so that the two loops are slightly above the rubber band. Wrap the hook again. The working yarn will now be wrapped underneath the band.
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Pull the third wrap through the first two to make your first single crochet stitch. This stitch will now be secured around the rubber band.
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Repeat steps two through six until your rubber band is filled with single crochet stitches all the way around. Push each stitch up close against the previous stitch to completely hide the rubber band.
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Remove your hook from the last loop, break your yarn and pull the tail through the last loop to make a knot.
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Thread the tail of your yarn through a darning needle. Insert the needle underneath several crochet stitches and pull it through to hide the tail inside your stitches.
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