This looks sooo relaxing! I made some of these pillows for our yoga class. A huge success for the relaxation segment of our classes. We especially like bags filled with buckwheat, I make ours with two pounds of buckwheat. Thanks for putting these instructions up. I do have one question. Can you point me in a good direction for buying fabric like yours? Thanks so much! The fabric I used was from a local quilt shop… it is from the Wonderland collection by Momo from Moda.
That line is about a year old and it might be hard to find. I would check out a local quilt shop. They will have something just as wonderful I am sure. I use to make these filled with just lavender, but i really like the weight of the flax seeds and so do about a 1 to 1 ratio now.
I love the fabrics you used, very pretty! Hi Pam, Lavender lasts an exceptionally long time. That will release more of the oils from the lavender and make it smell again. You can all put a few drops of lavender essential oil on the bag. Thank you so much for sharing! I wanted to make these for Christmas presents but I was still searching and thinking what I would fill them with — mental note: grow lavender!
I put some drops of lavender essencial oil instead and smells beautifully. Thanks for the pattern! I just made 4 of these as Christmas gifts for my girlfriends and it could not have been easier! I am completely charmed by your blog and all the content. I stumbled upon it by googling homemade eye pillows and have spent a couple days just poking around your site. Yours is my favorite of the only 4 blogs that I read. I am throwing a shabby chic baby shower for my girlfriend and her daughter to be.
This will be perfect. One question. After you stuff in the muslim pillow filled with lavender into the adorable cover, do you just fold over the flap or do you stich it closed? I suffer from allergies and puffy eyes. I think this will help; I will let you know as soon as I make a pillow. Thank you for sharing. Is there an easy way to make the cover for the eye pillow? Any information you can give me would be gratefully and humbly appreciated. Thanks for such a great walkthrough on making these eye pillows!
I really like your blog as well — you have so many great do-it-yourself projects. I also really liked the poem by Lowell Bennion that you had on your homepage the other day. A great reminder to live in the moment. I used this post as a guide to make 7 of them for Christmas this year; they turned out beautifully and they were a huge hit with the recipients. I also have a problem with puffy eyes.
This is a great sewing project and it would make a wonderful gift. I am in love with this pillow. To benefit from lavender's sleepy properties, you can store bed linen in a drawer or cupboard with a lavender bag, add drops of lavender oil to the tumble dryer, or sprinkle a few drops on clean, wet sheets before you hang them to dry. You can also use lavender bath oil or shower gel, perhaps with an aromatherapy product containing lavender, such as moisturiser, after the bath.
You can put a few drops of the oil into an aromatherapy diffuser in your bedroom, or a few drops on a tissue placed near the bed. And lavender sleep pillows are still popular and available today. Depression: In one recent study, participants who received an aromatherapy massage with lavender oil felt less anxious and more positive than participants who received massage alone. Lung problems: Lavender oil is beneficial for problems such as bronchitis, asthma, colds, laryngitis, throat infections and whooping cough.
It can be used in an aromatherapy diffuser, which benefits the person suffering from these respiratory conditions, and also provides a lavender scented room. Headaches: The oil may also help to relieve pain from tension headache when breathed in as vapour, either from putting drops of lavender oil in an aromatherapy diffuser or into very hot water, or rubbed directly on the skin.
Baldness: In one study of people with alopecia areata a disease of unknown cause characterised by significant hair loss , those who massaged their scalps with lavender and other essential oils daily for seven months experienced more significant hair re-growth than to those who massaged their scalps without essential oils.
Wound treatment: Lavender oil is one of the few aromatherapy oils that can be used undiluted on the skin. Use small quantities when applying directly to skin. This is useful in treating a minor burns, cuts, and scrapes.
Insect bites: The undiluted oil may be used as an antiseptic and pain reliever for insect bites and stings. Lavender oil may also be used as a mosquito repellent when added to lotions or hair products. Sunburn: For the treatment of sunburn, ten drops of oil can be diluted in twenty five milliliters of carrier oil such as almond or jojoba and rubbed on the affected area. Massage oil: A lavender aromatherapy oil can be effective in the relief of joint and muscle pain as well as pain from rheumatism and arthritis.
One milliliter of oil can be added to one ounce of carrier oil and rubbed liberally on the affected area. Menstrual Relief: Period pains are soothed by using lavender in lower back and abdomen aromatherapy massage.
A hot compress of lavender is also very comforting. Head lice: As a treatment for lice, ten drops of oil can be diluted in two cups of water to produce a hair rinse, and a few drops of undiluted lavender oil can be added to a fine comb to eliminate nits lice eggs. Moth repellent: Put dried flowers in sachets and bundles to scent drawers and to protect linens from moths.
Skin tonic: Make tonic water for delicate and sensitive skin, as well as speed skin cell replacement, by adding a few drops of lavender oil to a handful of warm water. One can also add lavender to soap and use as a face wash, or buy lavender soap as was particularly important in Victorian times. Although most essential oils blend well with one another, lavender oil blends particularly well with cedarwood oil, clary sage oil, geranium oil, pine oil, nutmeg oil, and all the citrus oils a particularly nice combination in my view is lavender mixed with bergamot essential oil.
A wonderful formula for relieving headaches is as follows: one teaspoon sweet almond oil as a carrier and two drops of lavender essential oil. Place a few drops on your temples to ease your headache. Lavender oil is one of the essential oils which blends particularly widely with a variety of other scents and fragrances.
As with other essential oils, do not use lavender oil internally without proper advice. If it is sold as lavender tea, or culinary lavender for cooking, this is different and can safely be consumed.
The oil is, of course, far more concentrated. Lavender oil should be avoided during pregnancy but is useful for controlling labor pains and strengthening contractions.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in concluded that lavender and tea tree oils may cause gynecomastia, or male breast development, in boys near puberty. That study has been criticised as it involved only 3 boys, and all were overweight. It also has a lovely-smelling floral scent, thanks to the inclusion of lavender oil.
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