Comments on: Against wrapping paper

By: Cam Sculpin

Cam Sculpin — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:03:30 +0000

Gift bags look like a great idea. I’ve been meaning to run some up on the sewing machine. Just one little thing: I’ve also been meaning to learn how to use the sewing machine. *blush* And I doubt I have the patience to hand-sew the little suckers.

By: Wim

Wim — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:42:35 +0000

Since I was a kid my family has used cloth bags for presents (hmmm, not all presents, but many presents). As cissa says, there are all these festive or just interesting holiday prints available. Bags get passed back and forth, with a few new ones appearing each year.

There are some things I like about wrapping paper, though. Tearing it apart can be fun. And you can get very finicky and elaborate about a paper-wrapped present (although furoshiki looks pretty finicky and elaborate, so that’s ok too).

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:22:01 +0000

Oh, those apples are very happy!

Yeah, my plan this year is to dye a whole bunch of them in one go and use them to wrap my auntie’s cookies.

They don’t really have to be dyed either, my grandma’s and aunties have always been white. But I want to try out that batik kit.

I still have little clue on what I’m going to do for cards.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:26:26 +0000

Mmm. Mylar… That reminds me, I need to get some mylar for my dirigible project…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:49:47 +0000

I’m a HUGE fan of the gift bag. I receive enough of these to just keep giving them back, holiday after holiday, year after year. We have never purchased a single one, and yet we always seem to have a stash of them. The tissue paper keep just as well, since it doesn’t matter whether it’s fresh or four years old!

By: cissa

cissa — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:01:23 +0000

Immediate family presents get wrapped in cloth bags here. For several years I’d make a number of cloth bags out of Festive Xmas Patterns for wrapping purposes. Since I made the bags, and loathe wrapping the most, I get dibs- but lately, there ahve been enough for all.

Someday when I’m feeling charitable, I’ll start allowing their use for non-immediate-family, whereupon they’ll be part of the gift.

There are so many cool Xmas prints in cotton in the quilting depts. that I’m not much tempted to make my own. However, I do need to place another Dharma order….

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:29:27 +0000

I like to wrap things in butcher-paper and draw on it. Or cut up paper bags, the same. I also tend to obsessively save tissue-wrapping stuffing paper, smoothing it out and folding it up – and I’ve found that three to five layers of that can work. (For “draw” you should really read “write” because it is usually words and swirly abstract line thingys.)

But I’ve always admired the cloth-wrapping idea. So cool idea, and yay Cam!