Learn how to make lavender sachets in this easy DIY for lavender sachet bags for drawers in your own home, or as homemade gifts!
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Looking for a sweet-smelling something to stick in your sock drawer and enjoy happy scents every time you get dressed?
These DIY Lavender Sachets are just what you need!
I’m sure you’ve seen tutorials for lavender sachets all across internet-land. They’ve seemed like all the rage for a long time, and they’ve therefore been on my “To Make” list for a long time.
I’m so happy I finally got around to it because it was so easy and I LOVE them! I think you will too.
These lavender sachets are totally customizable. You can make them as squares, or do what I did with a few of mine and make heart shaped lavender bags.
This easy DIY will only take an hour or two… one nap time! Pick fabrics that match who you’re making them for or that match your home decor. You can go right to the tutorial after this, OR you can skip to the bottom for a few FAQ’s before you get started.
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DIY Sachets for Drawers
These homemade pouches for lavender are perfect to stick inside your drawers to keep your socks and clothing smelling fresh.
It can also act as an all natural insect repellent.
Another idea is to keep a couple in your car to keep your car smelling fresh, or to throw one in your dryer when you do laundry.
SO many fun ways to get good use of them.
Supplies & Equipment You’ll Need:
- sewing machine
- funnel (optional)
- fabric
- dried lavender AND/OR rice and essential oils
- needle and thread
How to Make Lavender Sachets
These lavender sachets couldn’t be easier! Let’s get started:
Start by putting together your lavender. Combine two parts dried lavender buds with one part rice in a large bowl, preferably one with a spout for pouring. You can also add lavender essential oil to just rice if you don’t want to use lavender buds.
Combining the lavender buds with rice isn’t necessary (you could use straight lavender buds) but it does help you to get more sachets out of it with just as good of a smell!
Now, move on to cutting out your fabric. Cut 3.5″ squares in coordinating fabric, 2 squares of fabric per sachet.
Place two pieces of fabric right sides together (you can mix and match fabric patterns to make it double sided, or use matching fabric for each side). Start with a backstitch and then sew along the edge, 1/4″ in, leaving a 1.5″ opening on one side (for turning it right side out). Be sure to end with a backstitch as well!
Turn the square right-side out. I found the best way to do this was to stick my middle finger in to the far corner, pinch the corner with my thumb and middle finger, and then pull it out as I folded the right sides back out. You
Use chopsticks or some other pointy tool to push all of the corners out.
Next you can fill up each sachet with your lavender/rice mixture. Use a funnel, or the pouring spout of a measuring cup, to fill each fabric pouch with lavender. Fill it as full as you can.
Once full, use a needle and thread to finish sewing the opening of the sachet. If you aren’t familiar with hand sewing or closing an opening like this, HERE is a super quick video tutorial for using an invisible stitch to hand-sew an opening closed. Exactly what we’re doing:)
Once you’ve finished the hand-sewing, you’re done! wrap up few up in a bow to give to friends and family. They’d also make CUTE gift toppers around Christmas time.
On a side note: I am NOT great at hand-sewing and I don’t do it very often. Even though it was tedious and time consuming to hand sew all of these sachets shut, I was speeding through by the time I got to my last one. I gained so much confidence with my hand-sewing abilities after these, which is something I’ve wanted for a long time!
That being said, if you’re not comfortable hand sewing, you can always follow the tutorial the same but sew your fabric wrong sides together. Leave the opening and add the filling, then sew the opening shut with your machine. You’ll have sachets with an unfinished, frayed edge, but that can be just as cute!
What Material is Best for Lavender Sachets?
All you need to make lavender sachets (in terms of material) is soft, lightweight, cotton fabric. You don’t want anything too thick as it won’t let out the scent of the dried lavender or lavender essential oils as well.
Some simple, cotton scrap fabrics will work great! Any fabric that’s ‘breathable’ will be perfect. I had planned to use scrap fabric from my sewing drawer, BUT I was Walmart and saw these cute-as-can-be fat quarters in different colors and patterns from the Pioneer Woman brand. I had to have them, and this was a great project to use them up! If you want some fabric like mine you can shop it HERE.
How Long do Dried Lavender Sachets Last?
Most dried lavender (which is what we’re working with in this tutorial) will keep a strong fragrance AT LEAST up to a year. If your sachets start to lose their smell, you can gently massage them which helps the lavender buds to release oils and put out a stronger scent again.
Using high quality lavender in your sachets and taking good care of them, can make them last several years, although you may get used to the smell and not notice it as much after a while.
If your sachets start to lose some of their smell, you can massage them, OR you can simply add some lavender essential oil to the fabric.
Can You Put Fresh Lavender in Sachets?
You shouldn’t use fresh lavender in sachets, as the lavender stems are susceptible to mold when not dried correctly. You CAN dry your own lavender for sachets if you grow or purchase fresh lavender stems.
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I hope you enjoy your handmade lavender sachets and they make all of your drawers and spaces smell amazing! If you love them, share the idea with a friend, or gift them! Handmade lavender sachets would make the cutest hostess or housewarming gift for friends and family.
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Thanks for this tutorial, Jayden! As a beginner sewer, this is a great and easy project. Looking forward to making some sachets 🙂