Potpourri Pillows – A Handmade Gift

Here’s a very quick project you can sew up in a matter of minutes!  It’s a cute little pillow filled with potpourri!  With Mother’s Day just around the corner, I know mom always appreciates a handmade gift, made with love.  💝  You can make these any size you want.   I opted to make mine tiny (3″ pillows) so mom can put them in her purse, drawers, or wherever she likes, really.  I just think they’re way cuter when they are tiny.

I made several of them and packaged them up in pretty ribbon.  I even clipped a gift tag with a mini wooden clothespin… because it makes me smile!

Materials Needed:

• 3-1/2 Fabric Square (2 squares per pillow – I used a floral print on top and a plain white fabric on bottom, or create your own combination of beautiful prints available at my favorite fabric shop, Fat Quarter Shop!)
• Potpourri – I recommend dried lavender flowers ordered from Amazon.  They smell AMAZING!!!  Here’s the link:  Organic Dried Lavender Flowers 
• Optional Materials – Ribbon and Gift Tag

Take two fabric squares and place them right sides together.  Using 1/4″ seam allowance, sew them together.  BE SURE to leave a 1″ gap on one of the sides.  You’ll be turning them right side out AFTER you clip the corners.  ✂  It helps keeps your corners nice and not too bulky.

Turn your little square right side out through the gap.  Now it’s a pouch!  ☺

Fill your little pouch with some potpourri.  The hole is small so it is helpful to use a piece of paper to create a funnel.

Sew the opening closed.  Now it’s a potpourri pillow!  ☺✨

They’re pretty cute when you tie a few of them together.  The perfect mini gift!

I made quite a few of them.  It takes just a few minutes to sew one, and it smells SO GOOD!  It does get addicting!

Have you made these Potpourri Pillows?  Let me know what you think!