Turn Old Fabric into Pretty Scented Sachets for Valentine’s Day

Country Woman Magazine

What You’ll Need

• Heart pattern
• Tracing paper
• Fabric scraps
• Coordinating thread
• Embellishments, optional
• Ribbon for hanging loop, optional
• Potpourri
• Pinking shears
• Sewing needle
• Straight pins
• Sewing machine

Directions

1. Enlarge pattern by 400 percent. Trace pattern onto tracing paper and cut out. Pin tracing-paper pattern to a double thickness of desired fabric and cut out fabric heart with straight scissors. Unpin the pattern.
2. If desired, use needle and thread to hand-sew embellishments to one fabric heart, leaving space to add a button at the top center point of the heart.
3. Pin together two fabric hearts with edges matching. Leaving an opening at the top, machine-sew the fabric hearts together with a ¼-in. seam allowance. Trim edges with pinking shears.
4. Loosely fill heart with potpourri through the top opening.
5. To add the hanging loop, if desired, cut a 6-in. length of ribbon, fold in half and insert the ends into the center of the heart opening. Hand-sew the opening closed.
6. Hand-sew button to sachet at the top center point.

Originally Published in Country Woman