New Video: Knit a Hair Scrunchie with Youngest Knit Natter

Some of the ladies in the Knit Natters group have taught children to machine knit.  Mary has worked with a great many kids in her classrooms and had both boys and girls machine knitting, and Barbara's granddaughter is an amazing, patient little knitter - and a patient demonstrator, as well, as yesterday we worked to film her teaching us grownups how to make hair scrunchies, one of her favorite projects.  We had to film a lot of it twice, since I was having audio problems, and she was fantastic.

You can make these scrunchies with any knitting machine and most weights of yarn.  You can vary the number of rows in the loops.  With thinner yarn, you need less than an ounce to make a nice, fat ponytail scrunchie.  Play around with beads, buttons, and contrasting scraps of yarn for variations.

If you teach a child to machine knit, do stay with him or her.  It is possible to catch your hair in the machine, to prick a finger on a needle, or to damage the machine with rough handling.  This truly is a wonderful hobby to share with a child.