Wedding Blog

Even though I planned ahead to reuse / recycle as much wedding stuff as I could, inevitably there were leftovers. So here I am, with a friggin’ couple lifetime supplies of various teas in my pantry (mostly from the tea buffet, which I knew I had purchased too much tea for. But I needed variety!), so I figure that I better get creative.

I love the scent of tea; it’s pleasant and subtle. I decided to make a little tea sachet for my dear friend to include in the package returning my borrowed veil. She was unfortunately not able to attend the main event, even though she was the most involved female in my planning. I really wanted to thank her with a piece of the wedding.

I have nearly no sewing skillz*, so this project had to be simple and forgiving. I decided to make a little fortune cookie-shaped sachet:

I don’t know how useful this tutorial is, but I took pictures dammit, so you’re getting instructions whether you like it or not. Here it goes:

1. Draw a circle on a piece of muslin. I used a glass as template, approximately 4″ diameter.

2. Cut the circle out. It needs not be perfect. (I doubled up because I was figuring this out as I went and knew I’d mess up at least one, which I did.)

3. Fold in half as pictured.

4. Sew a little ’T’ along the straight edge, centered, as pictured (approx. 1″ wide x 1/2″ tall). I used red so it’d show up well in pics, but it’s probably better if you use thread with colors close to the fabric.

5. Crease and fold along the perpendicular diameter (along short stitches) of circle as pictured:

6. Match up the edges and pin to secure.

7. Sew the edges together, leaving an opening at one end (approx. 1″).

8. Turn the whole thing inside out through the opening. Fluff to attain fortune cookie shape.

9. Stuff tea (or filler of your choice) inside the ’cookie’.

10. Tuck edges of opening inside and sew it shut (use thread that matches the fabric now!). Add ribbon (mine is another wedding leftover, of course) as pictured if desired.

Voila!

*To those with real sewing powers - please forgive my crappy job and lack of correct sewing terms, for I know no better (though I’d love to be enlightened in comments).

If nothing else, I hope this get you thinking about creative ways to use your wedding stuff after the fact, instead of just tossing it away.

What were some of your wedding items that you reused and how did you reuse them?