Crafting with Lavender

Lavender can be used to make fragrant treasures for your home or your gift pantry, including Lavender Wands, Scented Lavender Balls, and Lavender Eye Pillows.

Lavandula angustifolia ‘Royal Velvet’
Item # 63118 		Lavandula angustifolia ‘Royal Velvet’
Royal Velvet English Lavender

each $7.99
3 or more $7.79
Lavandula x intermedia 'Provence'
Item # 63155 		Lavandula intermedia 'Provence'
Provence French Lavender

each $7.99
3 or more $7.79
Lavandula intermedia 'Grosso'
Item # 63152 		Lavandula intermedia 'Grosso'
Fat Bud French hybrid Lavender

each $7.99
3 or more $7.79
  • Topics: Gifts from your Garden, Lavender
  • Keywords: Lavander, Lavandula, Growing Lavender, Growing Lavender, Perennials, lavenders, lavanders, lavendula, lavandulas, lavendulas
  • Date: August 2004

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Note: When choosing lavender plants to craft with, consider the following: The flowers are made up of two parts—the corolla and calyx, and each has a different color. When lavender flowers dry, the corollas shrivel and fall off and only the calyx remains. So when you choose a cultivar for dried flowers, it’s only the calyx color that you will be using.

As dried flowers for using in lavender wands and other ornaments, ‘Royal Velvet’ and ‘Grosso’ are preferred. In crafts that use lavender oil ‘Provence’ is top rated and the ‘Silver Frost’ and ‘England’ varieties are exceptionally heat tolerant in gardens.

Lavender Wands

Sometimes called dollies or baskets, these woven lengths of lavender provide aromatic scents when set in jars throughout a house or tucked in drawers. For details on how to make go to the following site: http://www.divatribe.com/content/view/302/113/

Scented Lavender Balls

Materials:

  • Styrofoam balls
  • Hot glue gun
  • Lavender buds
  • Lavender essential oil
  • Ribbon
  1. Cover a small area of the ball with hot glue. Cover the glued area with lavender buds.
  2. Continue this until the ball is completely covered. When finished, sprinkle it with lavender essential oil.
  3. Poke a hole in the bud-covered Styrofoam ball and glue the end of a ribbon into it. Tack the ribbon to a wall or the ceiling, or make several balls and place in dish. Use as an air freshener.

Lavender Eye Pillow

  1. Cut two pieces of silk or velvet fabric 5×10 inches. Sew all sides, leaving an opening in one end. Turn the pillow right side put. Fill with the following mixture:
    • 1 cup flax seed (so you can heat in microwave and have a warm eye pack)
    • 2 T dried lavender flowers
    • Add a couple drops of lavender oil to the mixture
    • Stuff the pillow, sew up the opening. Lie down and drape the pillow over your eyes and give yourself a restful night’s sleep.