TECHNIQUE
hand sewing
SKILL LEVEL
Easy
Create in a morning
YOU WILL NEED

  • Scraps of floral and plain fabrics
  • Matching thread
  • Contrasting thread for tacking
  • Tracing Paper
  • Card
  • Thick paper – an old brown envelope is ideal
  • Pins and sewing needle
  • Scissors – for paper and fabric
  • Pencil
  • Dried lavender
  • Iron
 
PREPARATION WORK
 
1 Print out and carefully trace the provided hexagon onto card and cut out to make your own template. Use to make 14 hexagons from the thick paper.
 
 
2 Pin seven paper hexagons to the reverse of the floral fabric and cut out adding 0.75cm (3⁄4in.) seam allowance. Repeat on plain fabric.
 
OTHER IDEAS
  • A ribbon can be added to hang the sachet in a wardrobe or on a coat hanger.
  • By enlarging the hexagon size you can make a pretty pincushion the same way. Alternatively by adding more rows of hexagon "petals" to the flower shape you can make a cushion cover – or even a quilt!
 
3 Carefully fold back the seam allowance over the paper and tack it down around each hexagon, and remove pins.

Tips:
 
Accuracy is vital at the preparation stage so don’t rush it.
 
Be careful not to overfill the sachet. It is easier to add the lavender if you use a funnel or a cone made from a piece of paper.
 
MAKING UP
 
1 Arrange patches into two flower shapes. One should have a plain hexagon for the centre surrounded by six floral hexagons and the other a floral centre with plain petals.
 
2 Take a centre hexagon and one of its petals and place right sides together. Oversew along one edge with the matching thread. DO NOT SEW THROUGH THE PAPER. Take the next petal and oversew in place. Continue until all the petals have been stitched into the flower. Repeat for the second flower shape.
 
3 Put the flower shapes right sides together. Oversew around the outside edge taking care not to leave any gaps at the points. Leave 2 of the inward pointing edges unsewn. Remove the tacking threads and backing papers and turn the sachet the right side out. Press.
 
4 To finish fill with dried lavender and sew up the remaining 2 edges turning in the seam allowance as you go. PC
 
SUPPLIERS
Lavender is available from Fred Aldous Ltd
Tel: 01612364224
or visit www.fredaldous.co.uk
 
All other materials for this project can be found at HobbyCraft stores.

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