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I made a half dozen generic "turbie twist" hair drying wraps, and the price was right -- absolutely FREE! I really like those commercial things, but they can get kind of pricey, and we're just talking about something that you wrap around your wet hair, right? Well, I went through the bath towels we never use but somehow always keep just in case -- the kind that are in pretty good shape and not stained and ready for the rag bag, but perhaps faded or don't look good hanging in the bathroom anymore, and just one step ahead of being used to dry off the dog. Well, I have one of the "real" commercial things, so I used it as a template. Here's how to do it -- First you fold the towel in half the long way, and make sure the edges are exactly together, and pin them. Then you lay the folded-length-wise template down on the towel, putting the open edges along the edges of the towel, and making sure there is at least an inch of towel all the way around the curved (seamed) part of the template. Take your scissors and cut through both layers of the towel all the way around, leaving about an inch extra all the way around, which will be for your seam allowance. Next, cut a strip of elastic about 4" long. Double it and put it about 4" up from the edge at the fat end, sticking it between the layers of toweling and pinning it in place so the cut ends of the elastic are at the cut edge of the toweling. (The elastic is for the little loop you stick the long skinny tail into when you have the thing on your wet head. Trust me, you do want it! 1/2" wide elastic will work very well, or you might have wider on hand, and that would be fine, too.) Now all you do is take the thing to your machine and run a seam around parallel to the cut edges, using about a 3/4" seam allowance. Just to make sure the elastic is extra secure, you might want to run through that part an extra time or two. And that is it! The edges of your towel are already finished and you don't need to do anything at all to them, so all you are doing is one curved seam! It helps to run your new hair drying wraps through the washer and dryer just to get all the little pickies and snippies off the raw edges. They work beautifully!

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Mary
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I've never seen or heard of something called a "hair drying wrap".

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FarmI

The commercial ones are called Turbie Twist, and are sold at Walgreens and discount stores, usually in packs of two. What they are is a plush terry cloth thing that when folded is shaped like half of a tear drop, with the opening at the straight part (center of the tear drop) and a single curved seam on the rest (outside edge of the tear drop) There is an elastic loop about 4" from the edge at the bottom of the teardrop. To use it, you open it with the point at the top, put the opened bottom at your neck/bottom of your head with your wet hair in it, and then pull up gently and twist the top. When it's snug you fold the twisted part backwards and push the pointy end through the elastic loop at the bottom. Thus, it looks like a turban with a twist, which accounts for its name. When folded, the fattest part of the teardrop is about 12" wide, and the overall length is about 30". They work very well.

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Mary

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They work very well for what? Why not just towel dry and/or finger fluff your wet hair? Unless maybe it's for a quick trip out to the mailbox or to answer the door, or... while your hair is still dripping? I don't get it.

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Suzy

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Karen Officer

If you wrap your drippy wet hair in one of these, you can dry everything else without drips, keep your head a bit warmer (handy in Midwest winters), put your robe on, and when you unwrap your hair it is essentially towel-dried with no effort on your part at all.

Reply to
Mary

It depends on how long your hair is. It's mainly suited for those whose hair is somewhere in the middle between whatever your length is that won't drip all over the place and my mid-thigh-length hair, which would certainly benefit from an industrial sized hair drying wrap thingie.

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Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH

They are sold in the USA; I think I saw them for sale at Target a few years ago. I took some old bath towels that were wearing thin, split them down the center, making two long strips to use for drying my hair; much less cumbersome than using a whole towel.

What Mary described is basically what I saw for sale, but I didn't take the time to write down a description of how they were made. Sometimes, I wish I had, because two DS have had strokes and would probably appreciate something like them when they shampoo their long hair. Emily

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Emily Bengston

I've never seen or heard of Walgreens either :-))

I did a google and found this site so now know what you mean

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for sharing the info. Not sure that I need one but it could make a good gift idea.

Reply to
FarmI

Walgreen's is a drugstore that sells lots of items besides just a pharmacy. The stores are all over the USA, I suppose. I remember one in my hometown when Iwas a child; here in Houston, there seems to be one on every other block with CVS, a similar type store on the others. Emily

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Emily Bengston

The ones I have are made of microfibre in plush/terry form and have a button at the top with a little loop of elastic at the skinny end which loops over the button to hold it on.

I wouldn't be without mine either...

Reply to
melinda

Hunt around -- there's at least one free pattern for one on the web.

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Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH

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I wish i still had the need for the turbie twist so that i could make one and compare to my following comment.

i just wanted to comment that i can't be the only one here that knows how to do a hair / head wrap with a regular towel ?

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  1. holding side edge of towel grasping towel between thumb and fingers about shoulder width a part (palms out) and lift finger tips up bending wrist up (just made a 1.5" fold).
  2. lean forward place forehead in on the folded band between the hands
  3. wrap one side of towel around back of head then overlap that with the other side and tuck a bit of towel into that fold made earlier
  4. reach with opposite hand to the side that was tucked, grab the edge of towel and pull it a bit around to put some tension while fipping the dangling towel up over and toward the back of your head.

done , head and hair wrapped .

if you want it to stay put for some exercise you can tuck some towel into the back fold :)

well i don't know what that was worth but but certainly not enough to get an appraisal

robb

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robb

My daughters love these... I've been making them for several years. often embroider one big initial on the large area so they' are personalized, but try not to get too much embroidery since that makes them slower to dry.

Love using older towels for this. if they're too thick again, they take forever to dry. So worn towels are great to use.

Janet >

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Janet

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