Another Homemade Gift You Can Make!

Homemade Scented Cotton Doily Sachets

 These pretty, scented doilies are easy to make and instead of potpourri or sachet pellets, you can use regular old bar soap to provide the scent.

Craft Supplies:

• Cotton doily (synthetic fabrics won't hold the scent as well)
• Ribbon
• Hot glue (for children use tacky glue)
• Soap (bars, small decorator soaps, etc)
• Cheese cloth or tulle scraps

Craft Instructions:

I used a five inch doily for the homemade sachets shown here, but you can make them larger or smaller depending on the size of doilies that you choose.

First, fold a cotton doily in half and weave a strip of ribbon through the holes in the doily. Refer to the photo, beginning to weave the ribbon at one end of the fold and ending at the other end of the fold.

Gently pull the ribbon up at the center point where the bow will be. Cut the ribbon and a small shoe lace bow.

Glue each of the cut ends (at either end of the doily fold), by folding a little of each ribbon end over and gluing it to the back side of the ribbon. This will prevent the ribbon from fraying.

Tuck the ribbon ends inside the doily so they can't be seen.

You can wrap potpourri or sachet pellets in cheese cloth or tulle and insert them in the center of the doily, but small scented soap bars or shavings of soap can also be wrapped in a little cheese cloth and inserted in the center.

These homemade doily sachets make fabulous additions to your clothing drawers or to hang up in your clothes closet.

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Sock Bed for Kitty

 



 By: Berta Gilholm
There is a a way to recycle all those old fluffy worn out socks, the ones with a hole in the toe!  Make a sock bed to fit a cat or small dog. Your pet will love it!




Materials:

• 4 pair of worn out fluffy socks (any color)
• 1 yard + 2” of solid color felt (to match the main color used in socks)
• Quilting thread to match
• Thin quilt batting & cotton stuffing

Tools:

• Sewing machine
• Scissors
• Straight pins
• Ruler

Instructions:

1. Cut 2 - 18” circles out of the felt (can make larger for larger pets).
    
2. Cut 1 – 17 ¾ “circle out of quilt batting.
    
3. Stack the circles, felt on top, quilt batting in middle, felt on bottom. Sew a seam stitch around circumference of circles ¼” from the outer edge. Set aside.
    
4. Lay each sock flat and cut 1 ½” off the toe* end. Leave the heel on, it helps curve the circle. Turn the socks inside-out, seam one cuff to the other lower foot area together mixing colors for a design, until all are joined and you have a long tube. Leave the end of the tube open for stuffing.
    
5. Pin the tube to the edge of the felt circles about ¼ “ inside the circumference all the way around and sew the sock tube to the felt circles using quilting thread for a sturdy seam. Stuff the open end of the sock tube until solid and puffing up for a pillow for your pet. Sew the stuffing seam together and put in your pet. Your reward: Purrs or Wags!

*Toe End Sachets – fill the toe with dried rose, lavender, or magnolia petals wrapped inside a thin piece of batting and sew the open area together. Throw these in your drawers.