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Fragrance stones tutorial

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Homemade Fragrance Stones from Good Clean Luv

Make your own sophisticated potpourri that will last for months! This recipe can be used to make little balls of fragrance stones, or rolled out like sugar cookie dough, and cut into shapes with cookie cutters.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 cup salt
1/4 tsp cornstarch
2/3 cup boiling water
1 Tbl fragrance oil
Coloring, glitter or add-ins

Mix together all of the dry ingredients. Add the fragrance oil and coloring to the boiling water, then stir into the flour mixture. Mix thoroughly, then knead the dough with your hands.

The dough should begin to look like pie or cookie dough. Pinch off small pieces and roll into small balls. You can also roll the dough out into a sheet, as you would with sugar cookie dough and use cookie cutters to cut the dough into shapes.

Let the dough dry – it will get as hard as rocks and will last for months. You can refresh the scents by spritzing with the same fragrance oil, if desired.

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But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own. 

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to. 

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag. 

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]