How To Easily Sew an Embroidered Lavender Sachet
How To Easily Sew an Embroidered Lavender Sachet
Is anything as delightful as opening a drawer or closet door to the sweet scent of lavender? I'm sharing how to sew an embroidered lavender sachet to make your own spaces lovely and inviting.
These little sachet bags are a perfect gift to give too!
With my easy to follow video tutorial and written instructions, you'll learn to embroider a sweet lavender motif on some linen cloth.
Next, you'll discover how to sew up a drawstring bag to fill with scented lavender.
My bag design and instructions can be used for any number of bag needs.
Try these bags for reusable gift wrapping, enlarge the design to jumbo and use this for laundry.
Want to protect your favorite handbag and shoes from dust?
Make a drawstring bag to keep your goodies dirt free!
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DIY Embroidered Lavender Sachet Video Tutorial
This easy to follow video tutorial begins with how to sew a drawstring bag.
Then, I teach you how to easily embroidery pretty lavender flowers.
With just a few materials you'll have these sachets made in no time for gift giving and adding delightful scents to your space!
How To Embroider a Back Stitch
Here is a terrific video on how to back stitch if you choose to embroider your sachet bag with this easy lavender sprig design.
Cutesy Crafts shows exactly how to stitch the stems of lavender in this video below.
To create you lavender petals, simply embroider mini V shapes up and down your back stitched stems.
Lavender Sachet Materials
Here are the few materials needed to make your own embroidered sachets.
Remember to sift through your scrap fabric bins to upcycle and reuse materials you already have on hand.
- 2 pieces of approximately 8" long X 6" wide open-weave material such as linen, cheesecloth, other
- 2 pieces of approximately 18" long narrow ribbon, twine, etc for the drawcords
- Tailor's chalk or other fabric marking tool
- Scissors
- Sewing Machine or needle in thread in complementary color
- Embroidery needle
- Yarn or embroidery thread in green and purple(s)
- Lavender or other nice smelling dried flower or herbs
How To Easily Sew an Embroidered Lavender Sachet
These little sachet bags filled with your favorited dried flora are a delight!
Learning to make a drawstring bag is a treat too as you can turn this pattern and technique into many uses.
If you choose to embroider your sachets, follow the technique above and use a nice sturdy embroidery needle paired with yarn or embroidery thread.
Create your design on one piece of your bag material.
To make your sachets, start by setting up your sewing machine or preparing a needle and thread.
Next, take your chalk or other fabric marker and draw a small dash at 1.5" down from the top of your fabric - lengthwise.
This is where you will begin and end sewing on each side.
Using a 1/2" seam allowance, begin sewing by sinking your seam with a back tack - sew three stitches forward, reverse and sew three stitches and then continue sewing.
When you come to the bottom corner of your bag, pivot by sinking your needle, lifting the sewing foot and rotating your fabric 90 degrees to continue sewing the bottom edge.
Pivot your fabric again when you approach the second corner and continue sewing up to your chalk mark.
Back-tack and end your seam at your chalk mark.
Next, fold 1/4" once, then again at all 4 of the edges of your bag above the chalk marks.
Sew all 4 of these seam allowances.
Now make your drawcord channels by folding the top raw edge down once approximately 1/4" and then down to meet the edge or 'line' that runs between your chalk marks.
Sew along these 2 folds to create your channels.
Use a bodkin or a safety pin to pull your ribbon or twine through each channel.
Tie your ribbon off and you're done with your bag.
Next, fill your sachet bag with sweet smelling lavender or other scented dried potpourri.
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