Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Fabric gift-wrapping


For my friend Emily’s wedding shower last weekend, I ditched the wrapping paper and instead covered her gift (a cookbook) in fabric! It turned out quite pretty and is a great, economical idea if you have extra fabric scraps hanging around the house.


Ready to get crafty? Here are the step-by-step directions:

1) Find some lovely fabric wide enough to cover your gift from end-to-end (just the way you would for wrapping paper.















2) Fold just the way mom would wrap a Christmas gift (but not the haphazard way dad does. Sorry, dad.)




















3) Tape down the edges just to hold everything together.
















4) Then, tie the gift using yarn, twine, ribbon or anything you wish (I used sisal twine)…and remove the tape.

5) Make into a bow. I also stuck in some imitation flowers and tied in this hand-written congrats tag.















Then, I added this great decorative teaspoon set to the top, to go along with the cooking theme. They come in so many lovely versions.



















...and voila! 

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