so, I have bits of material, I have lace, I have a sewing machine, I have smelly drawers. Wait, that didn't sound right.... well, you know what I mean! :) anyway, does anyone out there know how to make a sachet? what's the smelly stuff they put inside, crushed up potpourri? something they might sell at Michaels or Hobby Lobby or something? I got some new furniture and I want to make the drawers smell all purdy and nice.
TIA!!
I use that packaged potpourri when i make sachets. it lasts quite a while, actually. Go for it, be creative, and go with the flow! Make it up as you go along.
I've made some using fabric scraps and old nylons. Actually, we made it a craft for my MOPS group :-) What we did was cut off the toes of old pantyhose, fill it with whatever potpourri we wanted, and the stuffed it into the fabric bags that we had made. Of course, if you don't want to infringe on your stash , they sell premade, drawstring bags that can work just the same.
Larisa
Jalynne wrote:
A word of warning. I just brought home some lovely lavender potpourri. The label cautions about not eating it and urges keeping it out of the reach of children. That's logical enough but then it says, " avoid contact with furniture, fabrics, carpets, finished surfaces, plastics, acrylics and painted items." Almost makes me want to call the bomb squad to have it removed. Polly
Ahhh thats from all the oils they use to make it smell nice. Homemade sachets using herbs you grow yourself wont pose the same problem. Lavender is a great bet, as someone else posted. Its traditional too! Balsam needles smell lovely too...as do dried roses. Diana
Simple dried lavender flowers all by themselves are safe! Potpourri often contains extra oils to strengthen the scent, and those oils might indeed do damage to oil-soluble surfaces. I have put bundles of dried lavender in the linen cupboard with no ill effects!
We had a holiday in Provence one summer, a lavender hotbed. Fields of the stuff on every side. We were there in July during the flower harvest. After cutting, the flowers go to distilleries, which are usually just little shacks to keep the rain off the equipment, scattered all over the place. Driving along with the windows down, one would occasionally get a blast of pure scent -amazing! And they put the flowers in all sorts of food -sprigs of lavender along with the thyme and rosemary on the roast lamb, madeleines baked with flowers, lavender sorbet. A cure for headache is to rub a drop of lavender oil on your temple. Roberta in D
I bought a bag of lavender from a place called Norfolk Lavender, based, astoundingly, in Norfolk England. I also bought a bag of mixed dried rose petals and dried lavender. I've made several sachets out of both mixtures, and it took ages to actually use the rose/lavender one up - a little goes a long way! Search the internet for dried lavender, and find where someone sells it. It helps you sleep when you're not feeling well - I put a sachet near my pillow when I have a cold. I just make 2 small - say 2 inch or 4 inch - quilt blocks and sew them right sides together with a small hole to turn them and stuff them with the lavender. That's my way to do it anyway.... Sometimes I add a loop so that I can hang them onto a coat hanger.
-- Jo in Scotland
yep, exactly. I make my own potpourri now since i have my own roses. It's a wonderful way to recycle.
Judy Kerr made me a very pretty one! I just got it last week while I was camping. What a great surprise.
Go to my photo page. Then go to QUILTS then to GIFTS to see it. (there is also a gorgeous mini quilt that Pat Storey made for me which I also got last week!!!!!)
I would put a direct link to both, but the links end up about 4 or 5 lines long.
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