Hi Folks,
Long time, no blog. It's been really busy lately but I wanted to share this gift wrapping idea with everyone before the holidays!
In part of our effort to cut down on waste, I have been researching Japanese gift wrapping, called Furoshiki. There are many complex wrappings but also some very simple ones. You can see a few tutorials here. Youtube is full of video tutorials as well which was extremely helpful when I attempted to wrap a wine bottle with one of the simpler methods.
Rather than get holiday themed fabric that we would only use once, we chose colors that we would be likely to use again for birthdays and some other holidays. Once the gifts are given and unwrapped you can gather up the fabric and reuse it many times over, just wash and iron between gifting.
The bolts came in at about 44 inches wide and for the largest gift the wrap is about 44x44. The smaller wraps are half that size and measure 22x22. The easiest way to measure is to unfold the bolt and then fold it diagonally to make a triangle.
I used pinking shears to cut down on the fabric fraying at the ends and it turned out very nicely.
For the gifts I wrapped in this post, I used the simple box wrap. Basically this fold is a series of two tight knots.
I will put in another post for the wrapped wine bottle because I want to practice a few more times. There were also some gifts for our dogs that I just wrapped up using the box method as well and they turned out pretty well (they are the smaller ones on the top of the biggest box).
Hope you enjoy this post and try to go paperless if you can!
