How to Make A Drawer Sachet
A drawer sachet filled with dried herbs can help keep your clothes and linens smelling fresh long after you wash them. Drawer sachets can also be placed in your vehicles and stored luggage to prevent them from becoming musty, and they make great gifts for your friends and family. While drawer sachets are available for purchase at arts and craft stores, you can create your own with a few common household items.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Sheer fabric
- Scissors
- ¼ cup dried herbs
- Resealable plastic sandwich bag
- Rolling pin
- Rubber band
- Silk ribbon
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Cut a piece of fabric into an 8-inch square.
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Place ¼ cup of dried herbs into a resealable sandwich baggie.
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Run the rolling pin over the herbs in the baggie until they are moderately crushed and their scent is released.
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4
Place the crushed herbs in the center of the fabric you cut in Step 1.
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Draw the sides of the fabric up around the herbs and gather them in the center so the herbs form a ball in the fabric.
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Wrap a rubber band at the top of the herb mound, around the gathered cloth.
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Tie a piece of silk ribbon around the rubber band to hide it and to customize the sachet to your décor.
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