How to Make Moth Repellent Sachet Bags

After discovering moth damage to cashmere sweaters, I sought the advice from readers in this post a few days ago on ways to prevent moths from setting up housekeeping among favorite clothing items.

All advice was excellent; I appreciated each comment. Now I am on a mission to make sachet bags filled with herbs and spices known to be effective in deterring these pesky insects.

I was fortunate enough to gather the rosemary, thyme and mint from the garden, and had on hand bay leaves, stick cinnamon and cloves.

Today I assembled the ingredients for my bags:

Rosemary, bay leaves, mint leaves, thyme, cinnamon and cloves.

I  had unused lavender buds stashed away and decided to add them as the "bulk" ingredient in my little bags:

Lavender buds

Not wanting to sew, I remembered I had these little silk organza bags with a drawstring ribbon that would be perfect bags for this project:

These bags are from Chico's, received when a piece of costume jewelry was purchased there last year. I have more packed away "somewhere" and home I can find them (unless of course, they were part of my crash and burn clearing-out-the-clutter project recently!)

Here's a photo of the assembled ingredients. I may wait a few days -- until the fresh herbs have dried -- before I fill the bags.

A potpourri of herbs and spices

This mix is pretty enough to leave in a bowl and use as a holiday decoration!

My new bags will go onto shelves in the closet, where I keep my sweaters.

Here are some lavender-filled sachet bags I made several years ago and placed in bureau drawers. All these involved sewing, which I didn't want to do this time.

This morning, I also have begun the process of rewashing each and every cashmere sweater, as well as the scarf and gloves I used last winter.

Thank you, thank you, to all who contributed to my knowledge on this subject.

And one more thing: my sister has promised to give me some of her excess cedar shavings, which I also will put to good use.

So there, take that, you hateful sweater destroyers!!!