You can get about four gift bags from 1 meter of 115 cm wide cotton fabric. Above are a few examples of holiday themed prints which by no means is complete. ¨Holiday Homecoming Novelty Stripe¨, from Henry Glass & Co., designer: Jan Shade Beach.Įvery year fabric designers come out with their holiday collection prints which are colourful and festive to take much of the guesswork out of creating a theme. From Robert Kaufman, ¨Winter Grandeur¨, designer: RK Studio 9. From Henry Glass & Co., ¨Holiday Homecoming Snowflake¨, designer: Jan Shade Beach 8. From Henry Glass & Co., ¨Holiday Tradition¨, designer: Jan Shade Beach 7. ![]() Wilmington’s ¨Frosted Holiday Presents¨, designer: Katie Doucette 6. From Wilmington Prints, ¨Woodland Holiday¨, designer Lisa Audit 5. From Pillow & Maxfield, ¨Scarlett Poinsetta¨, designer: Michael Miller 4. ¨Winter Church Scenic¨ by Spring Creative Products, designer: Susan Winget 3. From Robert Kaufman, ¨Holly Jolly¨, designer: Mary Lake-Thompson 2. Actually, anything that you have on hand!ġ. The list is short: cotton prints for exteriors, cotton stripes and solids for interiors colourful cloth ribbons, flat braids, cording, and twines for tying up and handmade hang-tags from Christmas Past and ornamental finishing touches such as jolly jiggle bells, yarn snowballs (pompoms) or dried natural pinecones. You’ll need a few supplies but as sewers and crafters you may have most of what you need covered already and it is an excellent way to tidy up your sewing room and re-purpose those odds and ends you’ve been saving or use up from your fabric stash or quilter’s fat quarters. Most of all, it creates wonderful memories and holiday traditions. ![]() I think children can be very creative and it is easy to harness their enthusiasm for the holidays. So today I thought I’d show you how to making your own lined holiday gift bags which are quick and easy to make assembly-line-style with your children. Mom would trim up the scraggly bits from the wreaths to even-out the form into a fluffy feathery halo and tie on big ribbon bows and clusters of pinecones. I recall we were a productive team of Santa’s little helpers and made wreaths for every window and door frame in our home. Once all the cutting had been completed, we all joined in with the popcorn-eating and double-knotting of the shimmering streamers to the wreath, packing them tightly together next to each other until you could no longer distinguish the coat hanger. My sisters, whenever they weren’t grabbing handfuls of popcorn and next in the assembly chain, would tie the plastic streamers one-by-one around recycled wire clothes hangers that Mom had distorted into circular shapes. Mom, second in the assembly line, would roll the plastic sheets into a tight ‘cigar’ roll and slice 1-inch ribbons from it to create piles of feathery streamers. Each flat sheet was then divided into approximately 12-inch strips. My job, being the eldest, was to cut away any printed labels from the plastic bags, then cut open the bags into a flat plastic sheets. Throughout the year, Mom collected clear dry-cleaning plastic bags and clear produce plastic bags from the grocer to be turned in feathery, shimmering holiday wreaths trimmed with pinecones and dried flowers we picked on our woodland excursions and freshly-pressed old ribbons from gifts received throughout the year. There was four of us… me, my two sisters, and my baby brother who was really too young to be of any help except eating popcorn Mom made from scratch. I suppose it was her way to keep idle little hands busy and curb our enthusiasm that Santa was coming soon. ![]() My sister and I were reminiscing about how Mom would have all us kids on holiday wreath duty at this time of year when we lived on the homestead. It was only an after-thought that I think we should have lined them as well. My sister and I used striped ticking and stencilled some crashcloth from her quilting classes to make our gift bags this past weekend but you can use almost anything fabric you want. Instead of talking about designing our own fashion bags I have a quick and easy tutorial about creating your own holiday gift bags. Something a little different from the design studio today.
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