A few months ago I cut my hair down to a long pixie which I loved, but my husband didn't like. He missed my long hair so I started looking at how much extensions would cost as an anniversary surprise. They were pretty expensive and I wasn't sure how well they would match my hair in person. Then I remembered I had a 16" braid of *my own* hair from 4 years ago sitting in a drawer and started searching how much it would cost to have someone make them into extensions for me. I couldn't actually find much info on that, but I found this awesome video that gave me the hairbrained idea to try making them myself: I did it pretty much exactly how the video said. My sewing machine's stitch length settings are a little different from hers so instead of a .5 stitch length I set mine to 20(it is usually 10 for general sewing). also, it's important to note that if you are using your own hair or an unprocessed ponytail, there will be some shorter fuzzy pieces