Lovely Lavender Bags — Free Tutorial

Before Christ­mas last year I shared a very quick tutori­al for these Lovely Lav­ender bags on Ins­tagram.   Today, I’m happy to be bring­ing that tutori­al here for you all with step-by-step dir­ec­tions to make things super easy. Ready???

First things first.… time to gath­er up your supplies.

You will need:

  • scraps of fab­ric at least 3 12″ x 7″
  • a bag of lav­ender heads (avail­able from most big box craft stores)
  • 14″ wide rib­bon.  For each set of lav­ender bags you will need a 25″ piece)
  • Chop­stick or corner pok­ing thingy to turn the corners of your bags out
  • fun­nel & meas­ur­ing cup
  • gen­er­al sew­ing sup­plies such as a rotary cut­ter, mat, thread, sew­ing mach­ing, scis­sors, pins, etc

1.   Cut  3 12″ squares from the fab­ric scraps.   You will need a total of six squares, two each of three dif­fer­ent fab­rics to make one set.

2.   With right sides togeth­er sew around the edge, leav­ing a 1″ gap on one side, using a 14″ seam allow­ance.   Trim the corners of the squares tak­ing care not to cut into the stitch­ing line.

3.   Turn the bags out the right way and use the chop­stick to push the corners out.  Press well.

4.   Place the fun­nel spout in the open­ing of the bags and then pour in approx­im­ately 1 13 cups of lav­ender heads.   Depend­ing on the lav­ender heads you may use slightly more or, slightly less.   The import­ant part is to make sure that they are nice and full.

5.   Using a need and coordin­at­ing thread sew the open­ing of each lav­ender bag closed.

6.   Finally, tie the three bags togeth­er with the 25″ piece of rib­bon and voila, you are done.

Just one word of warn­ing.  These little guys are highly addict­ive!   Once you start mak­ing them you won’t be able to stop.   Before you know it you’ll have a whole bunch of them ready and wait­ing to use your­self or give away.

Have a great week!

18 thoughts on “Lovely Lavender Bags — Free Tutorial

  1. Thanks. I made up a set of these to pop in a cus­tom­er­’s order as a thank you tonight. I used up all but the last 1/4cup of my lav­ender too!!

  2. Thank you for the great idea! I can­’t wait to pick out some pretty fab­ric and start my Christ­mas gifts!!

    1. I use these to freshen laun­dry and place one or two in the dry­er with my clothes in place of dry­er sheets! You can also place them in your dress or draw­ers, clothes stor­age boxes, or closet to make your clothes smell nice.

    2. Hi… I was a recip­i­ent of a lavender’sachet’ from my Vis­it­ing nurse after going through sur­ger­ies. A gift to me of incred­ible joy!
      Just squeeze and inhale .… such a beau­ti­ful thera­peut­ic tool. For any­one exper­i­en­cing pain, anxiety.……🥰everday!!! Hon­estly a lovely remind­er to Stay Calm and Carry On!
      My Vis­it­ing nurse gave one to every patient, it is her way of encour­age­ment long after the pro­fes­sion­al med­ic­al atten­tion is over. Stay Blessed!!

    3. Thanky­ou for this won­der­ful tutori­al! I had a big har­vest of French lav­ender from the garden this year dried and ready to use. I made these little lovlies as Christ­mas gifts for my sew­ing group, they looked and smelled gorgeous!

    1. Hi Kaye,
      I received one as a gift in 2016 and it still is scen­ted lovely. Just squeeze the sachet and the buds give off a lovely scent.

  3. Thanky­ou for this won­der­ful tutori­al! I had a big har­vest of French lav­ender from the garden this year dried and ready to use. I made these little lovlies as Christ­mas gifts for my sew­ing group, they looked and smelled gorgeous!

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