Ribbon embroidery on lavender bags
Nov 6th, 2006 by iHanna
I’ve been making small lavender bags in white fabric, filling them with dried lavender flowers from my parents garden.
When you bring the flowers out, they are still lilac and smells very strong, but put in the bag the smell gets more subtle and it is pure lovely.
I’ve been experimenting with how to decorate them, appliqué, lace or just a plain ribbon? When I started I didn’t know, but the white fabric is really romantic, so I went with that.
I remembered I had some ribbons for Ribbon Embroidery and started to make small roses in pink, white and red. It was time consuming, but fun, and the result makes me smile. They all turned out different but nice.
I also added some felt fabric as leafs, and embroidered green shafts for the roses.
What do you think? I’ve made quite a few now!
This skull was cut out many months ago and has moved around the house for a while since. I really like the shape of it, but didn’t know what to add it to… So now I sewed it to a black linen fabric and gave it to my mom, she liked it a lot. Guess she’ll have to show this one to the skull enthusiast at her work.
♥ I want to do more skulls, they are just everywhere and the shape are really appealing to me!
12 people call this photo a favorite, and I only took it yesterday at a winter walk with no sunlight but lots of inspiration. I just had to take the camera out all the time! The world was covered with snow, and everything was just beautiful for a while. This morning the bike ride was a mess, with ice, running water, dirt and snow (snöblask!) on the road.
I’d rather sit inside, drink coffe and remember how Swedish summers can be:
Such sweet sachets! I can almost smell the lavendar.
Fy för snö och svensk vinter! (jag hade tur som åkte iväg lagom till snökaoset). Jättesöta påsar, jag beundrar dig som har tålamod att brodera vackra rosor.
I love your winter pictures! The red berries and dark twigs against the snow! The dry grasses in the snow, with the forest and sky in the background! The bare trees! Wonderful.
i love the little skull lavendar bags, very cool idea, you should make more of them, they would make really good christmas presents :)
The sachets look gorgeous and the photo is just beautiful.
Sweet!
And yesterday was so beautiful with all that snow. I had to take my camera and go out! Lovely!
These are really sweet! I love the skull too!
oh - lovely lavender! fabulous bags - I must stop reading blogs right now and go and make something!!!
thank you
Oh, I can almost smell those sachets! They’re beautiful! And your flickr photos bring a whole new world, too. The berries are beautiful and also that mushroom you once posted a picture of. Don’t tell anyone, but I didn’t even know such polka dotted red mushrooms really existed!
Häftigt med döskalle och lavendel. Inte riktigt vad man brukar kombinera ihop.
Jag fotade också rönnbärsklasarna under sina snötäcken häromdan, då när världen blev vit här i Umeå…hur fint som helst! Tråkigt att det töade sedan. Nu är det ju bara halt överallt, och inte alls lika vackert.
Love from France.
I will tell my friends about your shop too, it is full of treasures.
keep on with the hand-made with heart ….
Violette
they look really cool. I just made a rice heating bag with some lavendar in it too. it smells so good when i heat it up, just makes me relax.
De er så vakre lavendelposene dine; tittet innom shopen om de var der jeg :-) Ønsker deg en god skapende uke!!
These lavender bags are adorable. You should put them on an Etsy shop and sell them. What cute little stocking stuffers they would be:) I live outside of St. Louis, Missouri and there is a lavender farm not a mile down the road. I love driving by with the windows down….smelling the sweet smell the flowers bring. They have a little shop on the property where they sell lotions, pillows, shampoo, soap etc. all made from their lavender. You can also pay 12.00 and cut a bouquet of lavender yourself. Really lovely little treat!
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The bags are delightful. I also make them out of white material, with gingham tops, onto which I have embroidered small flowers, so they look very like your lovely bags. How lovely to see the photos too. Best wishes