2 DIY fabric Gift wraps (How to wrap your Gifts with any fabric)

What do you need to make fabric gift wraps

Fabric piece, ofcourse. The fabric gift wrap is a simple square piece of fabric. The size of this fabric piece will depend on the size of the gift you have. If you have a scrabble board box, the size of the fabric piece to wrap it should be bigger than for a small watch box. Common sense.

Choose jute, burlap, or handwoven fabric for a rugged-looking wrap. Choose a metallic fabric for a festive-looking wrap. Add an embroidered patch or applique design for a unique take. Or embroider your own small motifs. If you do not have the fabric with the pattern you want, you can make one with patchwork – ie joining different fabric pieces together. Just add a backing and you have your own designer gift wrap.

Related posts : Make an embroidered patch; How to do applique work; Monogram Design Techniques; How to embroider. 

Use ribbon or thin gold or silver metallic cord or colorful strings for tying the present – even if you do not need to, opening of the tie is symbolic. Add fabric bows, fabric flowers , trims as embellishments. 

Finish the edges of your gift wrap fabric – any thing goes here. If you are lazy just use your pinking shears. If you can sew, sew the edges with a roller (hemmer) foot or just turn under and stitch the edges as you would do for a handkerchief or napkin.

Covering a box with fabric gift wrap

This gift wrap is used to wrap rectangular or squarish gift boxes. For this simple tucking wrap, you need a fabric piece which is of the following dimension

Width = Three times as wide as the gift you have + 2 inches + twice the depth of the box.

Length = Length of the gift you have + 6 inches ( add more to tuck for bigger boxes)

Step 1 Keep the gift box on the fabric. Turn the width wise edges to the inside (1.5 inches) as in the picture below

Step 2  Bring the edges over the box one over the other

Step 3 Tuck the upper front edge under the box as in the picture below.

Step 4 Tuck the remaining flap through the same space 

Step 5. Do this for both the edges. Tuck everything nicely inside . Use a scale or something to tuck smoothly.

Step 6 Embellish the gift wrap with trims or flowers. Or label your gift as it is.

A super simple tying fabric gift wrap

Step 1 Keep your gift diagonally inside your wrap.

Step 2 Bring the side edges across the gift and tie once

Step 3 Bring the other edges over this tie and tie – tie twice.

Step 4 Decorate

You can add some embellishments on top. Make a bow with ribbons and add a rose or another fabric flower. Check out the tutorials to make these – make fabric bows; Ribbon bows DIY; How to make flowers out of ribbon ; easy to make felt roses ; DIY felt flowers; make ribbon roses; Fabric roses DIY.

Or decorate with DIY rosettes.

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