Fabrics on Spoonflower

Any home seamstresses or pattern-lovers out there? We want to recommend a site we LOVE to use for all things fabric!

Spoonflower is a website designed for those selling their own handmade patterns (like us) and those looking to use them. It is designed in a way that allows you to search for your pattern needs in a super simple way. You can choose the product you are looking for (fabric, wallpaper or gift wrap) and then narrow your search based on color, tags, availability and/or location. There is a huge variety of patterns on the site, which makes for a refreshing selection for those looking to get inspiration for a project.

Lavender Garden

We have three of our hand-designed lavender fabrics on their website available for purchase. These patterns are used for many of our handmade products (pillow mates, mug mats, eye pillows and dryer sachets to name a few) and can be used by you for any crafty ideas you may come up with! 

The patterns, Lavender Garden and Lavender Farm Road, were created for us by designer (and recent formal family member, Cata Ferreira) pictured below teaching watercolor classes at the farm.

Cata, who recently married the eldest Williamson grandchild, Marcos.

The pattern, Lavender March, was created by moi from a little watercolor I painted of one stem.  That was used to create a repeat of lavender stems on the march!

Be sure to take a look at http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/sevenoakslavenderfarm and share with us some of the crafts you've made by using Spoonflower!

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Making Our Room Sprays

Do you know and love our room sprays?

If so, than you may already know that we have 10-12 different varieties, all with their own special mixes of lavender and other floral scents. Each one is made with all natural ingredients and provides a way to add a nice fragrance to your house without the use of chemicals.

If you’ve been thinking of making your own spray – maybe you have a particular scent that you want to experiment with, or you want to make one of your favorite store-bought brand sprays more eco-friendly – than here is how we make ours to be all-natural with just the right amount of fragrance!

To begin, the items you will need to have a few items handy:

• Spray Bottles and Caps
• Essential Oil
• Water
• Vegetable Glycerin
• Eye Dropper
• Gallon Jug
• Measuring Cups
• Pouring Cylinder

Then, there is a bit of prep work.

If you are making sprays for the first time, you will need to purchase your preferred scents and experiment with their ratios. For the most part we use essential oil to scent our sprays, but in some cases when essential oil is not available to achieve a specific scent, we use fragrance oil.  If you are using small amounts, these can be found at your local health food store. Larger quantities (like we use) can be purchased online through companies like Essential Wholesale online.

Experimenting with ratios can be a bit time consuming. Using a paper towel, add different drop amounts of various oils onto separate corners of the towel creating different mixes, and see which smells are most appealing to you. If you want to use lavender as one of your scents, we have found that you normally need 5x as much lavender as most other scents because it known as an undertone and its fragrance is easily overpowered.

Next, make sure you have spray bottles purchased. We get ours through SKS Bottle & Packaging, and we typically buy a small (4 oz.) and large (8 oz.) size. For smaller purchases, you can also check your local craft store.

Collect your water, vegetable glycerin and oil. Using your gallon jug, measuring cups and cylinder, mix the water and glycerin. Typically, our water to glycerin ratio is 9/10 water to 1/10 glycerin. The glycerin is added to prevent the ingredients from separating over time. Feel free to add the liquid to any size spray bottle, but know the mixture ratio will change depending on size.

The amount of essential oil or fragrance oil added is up to you. Depending on how potent you want your spray will tell you how much oil to add – the stronger the fragrance, the more oil. Use an eye dropper to put in your preferred amounts into your spray bottles. Be sure this is washed out after completion, as some oils as so strong they can eat away the rubber on top of the eye dropper over time!

After all of this has been completed – shake and enjoy! Good luck with your mixtures and happy spraying! (And for those of you who don't have the time to make your own, you can check out our different varieties in the online shop!)

*Many essential oils are clear but a few and some fragrance oils are darker in color. You might want to pretest using them on a piece of fabric you don't love! 

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