Choosing Fabric for Sewing a Sachet

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Candi Cane-Canncel with Expert Village. So, in this clip we are going make a cute little beaded sachet filled with yummy smelling lavender. That you could use in your lingerie drawer or hang it in your closet or even in your luggage to make your luggage smell fresh while traveling. So, the first thing you want to do is figure out what type of fabrics you want to use. Because it's something that's really delicate and sweet you can go with any type of fabrics. I found this, actually, it's Valentine's Day type of fabric and I found this last year and I just really loved it. It's a satin on one side and then the other side is just a plain kind of woven nylon. It has all these cute little embroidered hearts unto it. Then I have just this cotton little polka dotted just woven fabric. So, what I'm going to do is use this fabric as the actually sachet itself and then this is going to be a little heart decoration that goes on top of it. When you're thinking about sachets you want to think about fillings. You can use potpourri or I just have some little lavender leafs that just smell so wonderful. You can also fresh lavender. I also have some hibiscus flowers and something as hibiscus flowers doesn't smell as much as lavender but they are really porous so you can always take some accentual oils and just drop unto the hibiscus flowers themselves while your stuffing your sachet and then you will have this very, very good smelling sachet that is personal to you because it's personal oil that you really like. So there are lots and lots of options for filling it as well as using fabrics to create it."