Have you ever wondered how to make a sock bun? This is the easiest way to do a sock bun. I’ll even walk you through it with a video.
My girls, particularly the older two are obsessed with sewing and designing. Miss Optimism, who is the oldest, can take a tablecloth and turn it into a pleated skirt in less than an hour!
Granola Girl is just starting to express an interest and only hand sews at this point, but she is the one who came up with this cute idea for a fabric hair tie. No jeans in the house were safe at that point as she wanted to make them for all of her friends!
For sock buns, you can use socks that have holes in the toes or a sock that’s lost its mate. This is perfect for reusing what would otherwise have been thrown out.
This button hair tie couldn’t be easier to make. All that is needed is an old pair of jeans, some thread and a few buttons.
Cut off a strip of fabric from the jeans and sew three (or more)Â brightly coloured buttons onto it. That’s it. You now have a cute hair tie.
This is also great practise for sewing buttons!
The sock bun is a bit more complicated to explain, so I enlisted the help of Granola Girl and Miss Optimism to make a short video demonstrating exactly how to make a sock bun.
How to make a sock bun:
- Cut the toe end of the sock off and roll it up from the other side to create the sock bun.
- Make a high ponytail in the hair.
- Slip the sock bun onto the base of the ponytail.
- Spread the hair overtop and secure with another hair elastic.
- Gather the remaining hair and wrap around, securing with bobby pins.
All that is left at this point is to wrap the button hair tie around the sock bun to cover the stray pieces and give it a finished look. You can tuck the ends underneath or leave them out.
Since this project uses old jeans and old socks, preferably ones that are ripped or stained that might otherwise end up in the trash and old socks, the only cost is the buttons and thread, so this is a very frugal activity as well as a small lesson in re-using.
My girls have been proudly wearing them everywhere. Granola Girl says she feels like Rapunzel because when her hair is in the sock bun, it looks like she has so much hair!
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