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Posted: Dec 01 2011 at 7:49am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
I love the idea of wrapping a book a day for Advent, but I won't do it because 1) I hate wrapping and 2) I hate the idea of buying and throwing away all that paper and having to do it every year.

It's not an environmental thing, per se. It's more like being cheap and I want to be practical.

So I was thinking that I found purple fabric and made some "book wraps" that could be used year after year, that might make things better.

I was thinking maybe something with velcro? Ties? I have sandwich wraps, but books vary in size, so I want it to be adaptable.

I don't want to do anything too fiddly, but just looking for ideas and inspiration.

The other idea was just to make little gift bags for the book, which might be the easiest solution. Little tags for the day...maybe out of chalkboard oilcloth?

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Posted: Dec 01 2011 at 8:39am | IP Logged Quote SusanMc
I like the way you think Jennifer! I too was a little uncomfortable with the waste associated with wrapping a book each day. I love the idea of using fabric. Is there a reason you can't just scotch tape the fabric? Also love the tags idea.

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Posted: Dec 01 2011 at 8:53am | IP Logged Quote A-Lil
Fabric is a great idea! I was also wanting to unwrap a book a day, but I have too many other things to wrap! This would solve the problem of time and waste. I would love to see how yours turn out.

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Posted: Dec 01 2011 at 11:13am | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom
Ties or velcro would work, however, I have wrapped gifts in fabric, and for something like a book, simply using a length of ribbon or string works well. I just center the book on the fabric (or dish towel as I'm prone to do for weddings) centered on the ribbon, fold the fabric as I would paper, bring ribbon up, twist to the sides, flip the book (this is the trickiest part unless your cloth is big enough to make it back to the middle and remain caught under the "twist"), and bring it up to tie in the middle. I usually pass the ends under the taut piece so I can tie onto that piece. It makes it more sturdy.

Basically, it is how people wrapped gifts before scotch tape (brown paper packages and all that).

You could even just get some muslin or burlap and using pinking shears to cut it. No need to sew, really, since you probably wouldn't need to wash it unless it met with an accident. Just iron it after storage. Of course, you could wind the ribbon back onto a spool and use the same ribbon every year. Grosgrain and velvet are both very resilient.

I think that the ties and such would be sweet but a lot of work--especially since it would probably need to be made to different sizes.

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Posted: Dec 01 2011 at 12:50pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Such good ideas, Lindsay. That's one of my hang ups, having frayed edges, but the pinking sheers would be a great idea.

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Posted: Dec 01 2011 at 2:13pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
If you make the fabric big enough it'll be more adaptable then paper wrapping.. just fold the sides over and "roll" the book so that the open end is also covered.. and you end up with only one flap to tie down with the ribbon instead of the multiple flaps like wrapping with paper and tape.

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Posted: Dec 01 2011 at 2:16pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
but I'd do drawstring bags.. more work at first but how much work you'll save each year by being able to just drop in a book.



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Posted: Dec 01 2011 at 2:41pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
You could just make one fabric wrap. Instead of setting out all of the books at once, you could stash the books, and then set out one each evening (for the kids to find in the morning), re-using the single wrap each time.

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Posted: Dec 01 2011 at 5:13pm | IP Logged Quote MicheleQ
lapazfarm wrote:
You could just make one fabric wrap. Instead of setting out all of the books at once, you could stash the books, and then set out one each evening (for the kids to find in the morning), re-using the single wrap each time.


That's so simply brilliant!

I use fabric for Christmas too (though I got some rolls of paper at JAF for 99 cents on the Sat. after Thanksgiving).

Like Lindsay wrote above it's not hard to wrap a book without anything but a ribbon.

And I have found you can use tape too. Masking tape sticks to fabric well. That's more wasteful though it really doesn't take much.

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Posted: Dec 01 2011 at 7:52pm | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
Even simpler than draw string: a pillow case. Just drop the book in and fold over the top.

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Posted: Dec 10 2011 at 10:35am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Alice Cantrell just posted about fabric gift bags, too.

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Posted: Dec 10 2011 at 4:10pm | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom
Very cute!

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Posted: Dec 10 2011 at 5:02pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
How would you reuse the branch gift tags?

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Posted: Dec 10 2011 at 5:04pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
JodieLyn wrote:
How would you reuse the branch gift tags?


No idea! I was thinking sanding? But I was looking over to find the answer myself!

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I wondered that as well. I suppose if it is family names and everyone gets roughly the same number of gifts every year, you just put them on the appropriate gift?

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