Gift Wrapping Bags

Carol Evans, in the Redwoods

Ro asked if I had a recipe for the gift wrapping bags, and the answer is Idon't use a pattern. I started off making drawstring pouches for small stocking stuffers and gradually began making larger envelope type containers with velcro closures. Then I met the gift wrap bags for sale and made some shopping bag sized gift wrap bags.

To make the bags, start off with a rectangle of fabric, fold it in half, stitch up the sides, serge the top edges, attach a ribbon and tie. To make envelopes, take a longer rectangle, divide it into fourths, serge both ends fold 1/4 over to make the cover, take the remaining 3/4ths and divide in half, stitch up the sides. Attach a self-stick velcro fastener to close the cover.The post holiday sales at the various fabric stores are an opportunity to get holiday fabrics cheap. Usually there is another sale mid-year. You don't really need to do anything more than buy the fabric, serge the edges and just use it to wrap the packages, tho I usually make it into bags and envelope type containers. Ribbon is also easy to make just cut the fabric into strips and serge the edges. Somewhere I have a pattern for making bows from two strips of fabric, they collapse for storage. If I can find it soon, I will share it by posting on this list. Right now, my sewing room is in great need of reorganization, amazing what my Holiday projects did to my neat room. Life would be so much easier if Ididn't have all that fabric stashed! Not to mention all the other notions that I have collected over the years, that the kitties love to stir around and run away with. They seem to work in combination with the puppy, they get down a spool of thread for the pup to chew on. Did you ever try to use a spool of thread that has been worked over by a Rottweiler pup?

Carol in the Redwoods(^..^) purrrrrr...........