How to make your own lavender eye pillow

Resting with a lavender eye pillow can relax you and ease stress. According to Prevention magazine, lavender can help improve sleep and relieve anxiety. The weight of the small fabric pouch soothes the muscles around the eyes. Some migraine sufferers use eye pillows to shield their eyes from light when a headache comes on. You can make your own lavender eye pillow in about 30 minutes. Choose a durable but luxurious fabric such as cotton, jacquard or silk shantung in a pleasing pattern.

Things You'll Need

• Fabric
• Tape measure
• Scissors
• Needle
• Thread
• 2 cups flaxseed
• 2 tbsp. dried lavender
• Bowl
• Pins

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Instructions

• 1

  Measure a 9-inch by 7-inch rectangle of fabric with your tape measure.

• 2

  Cut out your fabric rectangle with scissors.

• 3

  Thread your needle.

• 4

  Place the fabric face up and sew the two 9-inch sides of the fabric together with a straight stitch (see Resources) to make a 9-inch-long tube with two open ends of 3 1/2 inches each. Do not tie off the thread.

• 5

  Stitch the perpendicular open end of your fabric tube closed. Tie off the thread when finished.

• 6

  Mix flaxseed and lavender in a bowl.

• 7

  Turn the fabric tube inside out, so that the fabric is facing outward and no seams are visible.

• 8

  Pour the flaxseed and lavender mixture into your fabric tube until it is approximately 2/3 full. Don't stuff the pillow completely. It should feel like a small bean bag.

• 9

  Fold both sides of fabric on the open end toward one another. Secure the seam with pins.

• 10

  Hand-sew the pinned fabric together using an oversewing stitch (see Resources). Tie off the end of the thread.