Lavender Bags

Lavender bags - the insides

Much of my time over the Easter break was spent sewing a dress, and getting out of the house with Paul, which made a nice change! (Photos to follow.) Yesterday and today however, have been mostly spent working on lavender bags for the EMPORIUM.

In the box above are 65 little pouches made from recycled sheeting, each containing about 10g of dried Yorkshire lavender. The little pile on the floor was intended to be the filling for the 66th. Oops…

Lavender bags

Having made up the outer pouches yesterday, all from my ridiculously large box of scraps, I spent today stuffing the insides into the outsides, and ladder-stitching them closed. I’ve still got just less than half to do, but I have now printed out all the labels and packaged up all of the completed bags.

These are most of the fabric choices, there are a couple more that I only had enough of to make one or two. As you can see, there are quite a lot of skulls left over from the old GothStuff days!

I reckon I need one more long afternoon (on a day when my hands are inclined to cooperate) to finish the rest. For now they’ll be sealed in a couple of layers of plastic bags so that they don’t make everything else smell of lavender, until they come out again at the Steampunk Extravaganza next month. I’m currently trying not to worry about how soon that is and how few days off work I have in the meantime. The list of things I need to make is definitely getting smaller, and I WILL get it all done!

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