Lavender Crafts
| Lavender Eye Pillows | Lavender Sachets | Lavender Bath Salts |
| Lavender Salt Scrub | Lavender Wands | Lavender Ink |
| Lavender Pillow Cover | Lavender Drawer Liners | Lavender Bubble Bath |
Lavender Eye Pillows
Be sure you can relax by using lavender eye pillows…
Lavender eye pillows are easy to make and beautiful.
They are great to block out the light and to relax when meditating. Try them for headache relief, too. Don’t worry about exact size. As long as it covers your eyes it’ll work.
Piece of fabric (silk preferred) 5 inches by 20 inches or 10 by 10 inches
1 cup of flaxseed
1/2 cup of lavender buds
- Fold fabric with right sides together so it is about 5 by 10 inches
- Stitch the fabric together leaving a small opening at the end.
- Turn fabric right side out.
- Mix flaxseed and lavender buds.
- Fill the fabric with the lavender flaxseed mixture.
- Sew closed.
Lavender Sachets
That wonderful aroma! Lavender! It’s been used in closets and dresser drawers for centuries….
Cut two 5 by 7 inch pieces of fabric. Make sure you have matching thread.
¼ cup dried organic lavender (or more – you can use the amount you’d like to use!)
- With right sides of fabric together, facing each other, stitch 3 sides together leaving one of the smaller sides open.
- With a hot iron, press the seams open on three sides. Turn right side out and press corners all the way through using the tip of a pencil. Press the sachet with a hot iron.
- Fill dried lavender.
- Fold fabric ends in for a clean finish & stitch open end together.
OR Fill a baby bootie with lavender, sew it closed and decorate it with a ribbon. Or sew a longer ribbon on it and hang in the baby’s room or to give as a baby present.
Bath Salts
Relax your worries away in a wonderfully aromatic bath!
2 cups Epsom salts
2 cups sea salt
2 tbsp baking soda
5 drops lavender essential oil
2 tbsp dried lavender
- Mix Epsom salts, sea salt, baking soda and essential oil together in a bowl – make sure not to get lavender essential oil on a wooden spoon. Mix until oil disperses.
- Mix in 2 tablespoons dried lavender.
Makes plenty to put in containers and give as a gift!
Lavender Salt Scrub
Lavender salt scrubs help to remove dead skin. It also softens the skin and adds a nice glow to the skin. Leave the scrub on for about 5 to 20 minutes, then rinse. Not recommended for use on delicate facial skin.
Mix together
3 to 5 tbsp of sea salt
5 drops of lavender essential oil
1 tsp of olive oil
Water
Moisten with the water and rub onto your skin. Rinse off. This makes enough for one use.
Lavender Wands
Lavender bottles or wands have been used to freshen linens and impart fragrance for centuries. Use them to fragrance linen or lingerie drawers, or wherever you would use a sachet.
Approximately 15 fresh stems of lavender at least 12 inches long
Narrow ribbon
- Take a small bunch of lavender stems. Align the flower clusters so that the bottom bud is in the same place when holding them. Bind them together (fishing line works great, just be careful not to break any stems) just below the last flower buds.
- Carefully bend each stem down one at a time down over the blossom heads being careful to avoid breakage. The stems look like a cage around the lavender flower heads, encasing them inside.
- Weave the ribbon in the lavender stems taking care to keep it flat and basket weave around until all the flower heads are encased. Pack the weaving gently as you proceed so that each new row touches the previous row.
- Wrap the rest of the ribbon binding the stems together tightly (they will shrink when they dry) down to the ends and then back up to the base of the flower heads. Tie a pretty bow.
Lavender Ink
Scented ink adds a delicate fragrance to your personal correspondence, a fragrance that will hit the air as soon as the envelope is opened and linger as your reader examines your words.
½ oz. dried lavender flowers
6 tbsp water
1 small bottle ink
- Crush the lavender and put into a small saucepan along with the water.
- Bring to a boil.
- Simmer for about 30 minutes or until there’s about 2 tablespoons brown, opaque liquid remaining. Strain well, pressing down hard.
- Mix the liquid with the ink.
Lavender Pillow Cover
Squeezing the pillow will release the wonderful scent!
Piece of fabric (silk preferred) smaller than the size of the pillow
2 cups flaxseed
1 cup of lavender buds
- Fold fabric with right sides together
- Stitch the fabric together leaving a small opening at the end.
- Turn fabric right side out.
- Mix flaxseed and lavender buds.
- Fill the fabric with the lavender flaxseed mixture.
- Sew closed.
Lavender Drawer Liners
Now your drawers can have the wonderful, clean aroma of lavender!
- Cut two pieces of cheesecloth ½ inch longer than the size of the bureau drawer.
- Cut 2 pieces of thin cotton padding a bit smaller than the drawer.
- Lay one piece of cotton flat on a table, sprinkle it with a layer of lavender, and cover with the second piece of cotton.
- Baste the cheesecloth around the edges, and then make tackings of threads through the cloths. This will scent the whole drawer.
Lavender Bubble Bath
Relax your worries away in a wonderfully aromatic bath!
1 bunch Lavender
1 large bottle clear unscented shampoo
5 drops oil of Lavender
Clean wide-neck jar with screw top and place lavender head down in the jar. Cut down to fit into the jar. Add shampoo and Lavender oil. Keep this in a sunny window to infuse the scent into the shampoo. Add to your bath when water is running.
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