It might not sound significant, but as a baby my daughter was born with a full head of hair, most of which disappeared within a few weeks, leaving her with a few sparse wisps over her adorable little head.
This was not a problem. My daughter grew into a hat wearer.
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| M wearing a hat made by Mummy. |
Hair styling has never been my forte. Hair styling, when the hair in question is extremely fine, thin and belongs to someone who cannot stand still for more than a few minutes at a time, has proved a challenge.
Like most mothers, I’ve resorted to time honoured methods for keeping my little one’s hair in check. I’ve tried braids, but M doesn’t like to wait as I complete the task. I’ve tried alice bands, but they slip off, rarely staying in place for more than a few minutes. Pigtails were popular for a while, but as M’s hair continued to grow in length but not in body, they turned into lethal weapons on either side of her head. M took great delight in swinging her head from side to side, hair whipping her face with alternate strikes across her cheeks.
These days, the mainstay of hair restraint for M is the good old fashioned ponytail. I wanted a child sized hair tie that would stay in place, wasn’t slippery and wasn’t too big because it assumed you had a lot of hair.
I made something.
This was an experiment. I’ve never made a hair accessory before and couldn’t find anything that was just right on Ravelry, so I improvised. I tied some left over 8 core elastic into a loop, then crocheted over it to give me a base. I then added a simple chain mesh, until it had some substance.
And here we have it, a child sized lace scrunchie.
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| A simple crochet mesh scrunchie. |
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| A simple crochet mesh scrunchie with hair. |
This scrunchie is worked in a standard crochet thread (size 10) on a 2mm hook. Guage doesn’t matter in this case, it was more important to use a hook that worked well with the thread.
Method:-
I put a foundation row of dc in multiples of 5 stitches around a piece of elastic, covering it. I then worked a 5 stitch chain mesh into this row, as follows.
R1 - ch5, skip 4 dc, dc in next dc, repeat until end of round.
R2 - ch5, dc in next 5ch space of previous row, ch5, dc in same space, repeat until end of round.
R3 - ch5, dc in next 5ch space of previous row; repeat until end of round.
R4 - increase in alternate spaces.
R5 - as for R3.
M likes it. Enough said.
