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Puffy Ponytail Bows made from my book ♥ふわふわリボンゴムたくさん作りました♥

I stayed up late last night to put together these "puffy ponytail bows" for my oldest girl. As you may already know from my previous post, my fourteen year old loves pastel colors, hence she selected these fabrics.

♫母さんが～夜なべをして～リボンゴムを作りました～♪　すみません字余りですが（笑）昨夜は深夜までこんなの作っていた母さんです。前回に引き続いて今回も中学生長女からのリクエスト作品です。

These were made for my daughter and her friends. I had to rush to make these last night because she wanted to bring these to school on Monday morning for some sort of school activity. (And today is Sunday)!

月曜日に学校のイベント？で使うらしく慌てて作りました（今日は日曜日です）。。。

Here's the view of the back side of the ponytail bows...

リボンゴムの裏側はこんな感じになっています。

The project is featured in my book, Zakka Handmades.

作り方は私の著書に掲載されています。→★

***Love, Amy***

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Hair Scrunchies Assembly Line ♪ シュシュ大量生産しました ♪

Guess how many hair scrunchies I whipped up last week for our oldest girl's cheer team?

先週、長女が所属するスポーツチームのお友達用に大量のシュシュを作りました。

... A total of twenty hair scrunchies! (I made a couple more after shooting the above pic).

全部で20個もシュシュを作りました～。(上の写真を撮影後にもいくつか作りました)。

My fourteen year old picked the fabrics for her teammates. Can you tell that she likes checkered prints and polka dots but dislikes florals? For some reason, she thinks that floral prints are for middle‐aged people (like her mom)!

例によって生地選びは長女が行いました。我が家の14才、お気に入りはチェックと水玉なようで、花柄は「オバさんぽい」からひとつも選びません。母は花柄好きなんだけどな。。。(やはりオバさん？！)

I sewed and sewed...

ミシンが大活躍。

Then pressed and pressed.

アイロン作業も大変でした～。

While I made these, my sewing area literally turned into an assembly line of hair scrunchies!

シュシュを大量生産中、私のミシン周りは完全に生産ライン状態でした～(苦笑)。

All in all, I am so relieved that the order is now complete!

でも無事に出来上がってよかったです^^

After making a myriad of hair scrunchies for the teenage girls, I decided to make one for myself. How do you like the crocheted edges that I added to my *special* version?

長女の「注文」を作り終えて一安心。ほっと一息ついたところでもうひとつ自分用にも作ってみました。自分用のシュシュにはかぎ針編みで縁編みもしちゃいました♪

***Love, Amy***

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Making hair scrunchies ♪最近作ったもの(シュシュたくさん)♪

Per request from our fourteen and twelve year old girls, I've made a couple of hair scrunchies recently.

我が家の娘達からの注文品（？）として、シュシュをいくつか作りました。娘二人は現在14才と12才です。

The girls selected the fabric from my stash, and I did the stitching. Actually, I wanted to make these hair accessories more decorative by mix-and-matching the fabrics or adding trims to the edges, but our girls didn't like the idea of "excessive embellishment" suggested by their mom...

娘が生地を選び、私が一気にミシンで仕上げました。シュシュ作り、私の好みとしてはパッチワークにしてみたり、レースをはさんだり、もう少し手を加えてみたかったのですが娘らには不評だったようで…。ゴチャゴチャと飾り立てるのはオバサンぽいらしいです（苦笑）。

Instead, they liked it simple :D

というわけで仕上がりはいたってシンプルに。

I used this braided elastic to make these scrunchies. This elastic is very durable and strong, which stands the wear-and-tear even after frequent wash (which is important for hair accessories making)!

シュシュ作りにはこちらの洋裁用のゴムを使っています。毎日使ってどんどん洗濯しても、かなり丈夫で長持ちすると思います。

All of these scrunchies were given away to their friends as gifts.

出来上がったシュシュはすべて娘二人のそれぞれのお友達へのプレゼントとなりました。

Hope the recipients make good use of them!

Happy hair scrunchie making♪♪

シンプル極まりないシュシュですが…お友達に使ってもらえたら母は嬉しい限りです^^

***Love, Amy***

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Puffy ponytail bows for my girl 　ふっくらリボンゴムを色違いで。

I made a couple of puffy ponytail bows for my girl and her friends. I like to make these bows nice and fluffy by lightly filling them with polyfill.

娘とお友達用に、ふっくらリボンのヘアアクセサリーを数点作りました。このリボンゴム、ふんわり化繊綿を詰めているのでとても柔らかです～。

Back side of the bows shown above.　裏側はこんな感じです。

This is a very straight forward project that can be made quickly with small pieces of fabric and hair elastic. It can even be sewn by hand if you prefer not to use the sewing machine. If you're interested in making some for the sweetest girls around you (including yourself!), the project is featured in my book.

このヘアアクセサリーは、小さなハギレと髪ゴムがあればすぐに出来上がりますし、ミシンがなくても手縫いでもＯＫ。作りかたは著書に掲載していますので興味のある方は是非作ってみてくださいね！

My eleven year old wearing the red puffy ponytail bow. It makes her mommy happy (and relieved) to see her girl wearing this bow to school, because we all know how picky this girl can be when it comes to her hair and hair accessories. Phew!

我が家の次女（11才）は髪型やヘアアクセサリーにはとてもうるさいので、気に入らないヘアゴムを学校につけていくことは決してありません。　このリボンゴムを学校にして行っているところを見ると、どうやら気に入ってくれたみたいなので母はひと安心（ホッ）。

Before I go, I'd like to let you know that I will be joining the CREATE 2013 Mixed Media Retreat Artists' Faire this Friday, May 31, at Hyatt Regency Irvine from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. I plan to showcase some of the sample projects from my book and to sell the autographed copies at the booth! (Sorry, cash only please).

Join us if you're around Orange County this Friday! The admission is free to public :)

お知らせです。今週金曜日、5月31日午後6時～9時までの時間帯に、カリフォルニア州アーバイン市のハイアットリージェンシーホテルのアート系イベントに参加することになりました。会場では私の著書の掲載作品を少しばかり展示して、サイン入り著書も販売する予定です。入場は無料ですのでお近くにいらっしゃる方はよかったら覗いてみてくださいね。

***Love, Amy***

Hair scrunchie for young girls　簡単シュシュを手作り

I did a quick sewing for my eleven year old daughter. I made her a hair scrunchie.

11才になる次女にシュシュを作りました。

My daughter selected the fabric. She chose this fabric with small golden hearts on pink background. It's a Japanese imported fabric.

生地は娘が選びました。　ピンク地に金色のハート柄のこの生地が気に入ったようです。　

I ended up making four hair scrunchies, one for my girl and the rest for her friends at school. Hope the girls like these handmade hair accessories!

娘の友達の分も作ったので最終的には４つ、同じものを作りました＾＾　

女の子たちが使ってくれると嬉しいな。

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Can you believe that this Friday will be the first day of March, already? Hope you all have a wonderful week!

今週金曜日はもう３月。　皆さんもどうか良い１週間をお過ごしください♪

Love, Amy

Crochet hair scrunchies with glittery yarn edging

We're in the midst of tax season right now, and I've been crunching numbers all day lately which can get really exhausting... Often times, it comes to a point where I need a good mind refresher to lift up my spirits...
So what do I do?

Yes, I crochet! I made many of these crocheted hair scrunchies recently :D For me, crocheting is a fun and inexpensive way to relieve everyday stress and to give me a sense of accomplishment, especially after a long "unaccomplished" day...

I like to carry yarns and a hook wherever I go to enjoy stitching these small projects. If you see a middle aged Japanese looking woman crocheting something while she's standing in line at a local supermarket checkout... that's got to be me!! LOL

To make these scrunchies, I used leftover acrylic yarns overall.

I really did not follow any pattern to make these, although I was inspired by this Japanese craft book. These scrunchies are simply made up of combinations of double crochets, single crochets, and chain stitches.

Black Caron glimmer yarn is used for this edging. This chenille yarn adds that soft puffiness and the sparkling effect, which I really like :)

Hair scrunchie worn by our 10 year old daughter here.

For these colorful edgings, I used Lion brand Vanna's glamour yarn, which comes in various colors.

I personally like the white/silver combination the best, I think.

How do you like this hair scrunchies "tower" on our paper towel holder? :D

Well, thanks for visiting my blog today and hope you have a relaxing weekend!!

Love, Amy xoxo

Crocheting hair scrunchies

As much as I enjoy sewing, I enjoy crocheting. For a quick crocheting project, I made these hair scrunchies for my girls this week.

To make these scrunchies, I simply crocheted the pom pom yarn around the hair elastic by repeating this process: single crochet (sc) on to elastic →　then crochet one chain stitch　→ then sc on to the elastic again, until the entire elastic is covered with stitches.

Our 10 year old likes the puffy look of this hair scrunchie.

Oops, I gotta go pick up the girls now... Hope you continue to enjoy your weekend!

Gift to a nine year old girl (hair accessory set)

I handmade a birthday gift set to a very pretty girl who just turned nine. She has a long beautiful hair so I decided to put together a pack of hair accessories for her to wear.

This is a set of two large ribbons with pony tail holders attached to the back. Poly fill is filled inside to add softness to these ribbons, and I'll tell you. These ribbons are really LARGE in size! (About a size of my palm).

Another set of ponytail holders made of covered buttons with Rilakkuma fabric.

These are crocheted flower ponytail holders. Wood beads are placed in the center of these flowers.

Hair scrunchie made of fabric scraps in pastel colors.

The entire hair accessories were placed in this Rilakkuma drawstring bag that I handmade for her. The tutorial of this usable bag can be found here.

The recipient girl seemed to like my gift, and I was told by the girl's mother that she wore the red big ribbon ponytail holder to her school on the next day :D

For me, one of the joyful moments of crafting is making handmade gifts... Especially making gifts for the little and the young people!

As long as I can craft and continue to make things for the special people around me... I'm a happy camper (I mean a crafter) :D

Crocheted ponytail holders with glitter yarns

Here are my latest crocheted additions.

These are crocheted ponytail holders using gold glitter yarns - yes, glitter! I love glitter and shimmery stuff and I just couldn't help myself but to make another *glittery* item :P

I did not follow any specific pattern to make this one, but I quite frankly played around with a ball of yarn, a crochet hook, and a elastic ponytail holder (one without metal parts).

I wanted to make a ponytail holder with a "frilled" look.

I think I'm really hooked on crocheting lately, and sometimes I feel like I shall change my blog name from "chick chick sewing" to "chick chick crocheting" one of these days...maybe? ha ha!