This scrunchie was originally designed for my husband’s niece using Overture needlepoint cotton and star pony beads.   I’ve since worked it with Metallic threads and fancy beads for evening wear, chenille and holiday beads for the holidays and tapestry cotton with multicolored beads for every occasion.   You can be simple or get really fancy... the choice is yours.  

Materials:   Sport Weight thread or yarn - 22 yards 
                    10 pony beads  or other beads with large enough hole for threading on yarn 
                       *see note below 
                    size G crochet hook 
                    elastic pony tail band 

Yarn used in samples:  Lion Brand Chenille Sensations - Garnet red.  6x9 Gold pony beads 
   Lion Brand Chenille Sensations - Forest green.  Silver 6mm Sand Beads 

Substitutions include:  Any sport weight yarn or thread including, Overture 4ply needlepoint cotton by Rainbow Gallery, split and used as two strands.  Lustersheen, Cotton 8 by Susan Bates, Ruby Mills rayon chenille sport weight (available through Annie's Attic).  Also try working with one strand of metallic embroidery floss with your chenille. 

Note:   If you are using beads that have too small of a hole for your thread or yarn, try using a dental floss threader for easier threading of the beads onto the yarn.  Thread the yarn into the loop of the threader then push the long end of threader through the beads.  If this doesn’t work, thread the beads onto matching embroidery floss split into one or two strands and work it together with your thread or yarn. 

Thread 10 beads onto the yarn you are using. 

Round 1:   Make a loop with yarn and G hook, sc around the elastic band. Continue to sc around the band until there are 40 sc sts around the band.   Stretch band slightly to  fit stitches.  Join with sl st into first sc.   40 sts. 
 Round 2:   Ch 7, sc in same stitch as joining sl st. [counts as first  sc & ch 6],  Ch 6, sc in same st.,  (ch 6, sc, ch 6, sc) in each of the next 2 sts of prev. round.  * Ch 6, sc in the next stitch, ch 2, bring up 1 bead, ch 3, sc, in same stitch.  (ch 6, sc, ch 6, sc) in each of the next 3 sts of prev. round.* Repeat from * to * around with Ch 6, sc in the next stitch, ch 2, bring up 1 bead, ch 3 in last st of this round.  Sl st into first sc of round one.  Fasten off, weave in ends. 

Abbreviations:   ch  chain stitch 
                            sc  single crochet 
                            sl st  slip stitch 
                            st(s)  stitche(s) 

© 1999 Janet Rehfeldt.  All rights reserved. 

Get some nice leaves from out side---if they're green it still works.    
Maple leaves work really well.       
Turn the leaf vein side up.   
Lay a piece of tissue paper over the leaf.    
Rub the tissue paper with a peeled crayon, so that the veins will color onto the tissue paper.  
Cut around the leaf, leaving a border about a half an inch--it doesn't have to be perfect because the rubbing shows.  
Repeat this step---you can use the same leaf---but it's nice to use lots of different colors.  

Lay the tissue leaves on a piece of paper.  Manilla paper works very well.   
Arrange the leaves into a pleasing pattern.  Overlapping is nice because the two pieces of overlapped tissue create a new color.  

Mix white glue (like Elmer's) with water.  About half and half--or thinner.  Use a good sized paint brush and load it up with the glue-water.   
Start in the center of each leaf and brush outward.  
Saturate the tissue.  The color will spread some too.  That looks nice.  
If you rub too hard, you'll tear the tissue, so use a steady even stroke with the paint brush.  The glue water glues the leaves to the paper and makes them transparent.