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Creative Christmas Gift Wrapping: How To Gift Wrap With Fabric
A time for gift giving and showing your appreciation for a special someone in your life, Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year. It's a time for us to get creative in our gift giving, and what better way to do that than looking for an alternative to traditional paper gift wrapping? Fabric gift wrapping combines one's interest in infusing a crafty charm into their celebrations with a desire to reduce waste throughout the holiday season.
Fabric gift wrap and cloth wrapping paper are reusable and allow your loved one to pass on the gift of creativity to their friends and family. From linen to cotton, you can find a great range of stylish Christmas fabrics as well as all types of fabrics to wrap gifts all year round with a creative charm.
Quick Links
- A Twist On Tradition: What Is Fabric Gift Wrap?
- How To Gift Wrap With Fabric
- Ways To Secure And Decorate Your Christmas Fabric Gift Wrap
- Add the Perfect Finishing Touch With DIY Gift Tags
- Designs And Fabrics For A Very Merry Christmas
A Twist On Tradition: What Is Fabric Gift Wrap?
Paper Christmas gift wrap is often only for one-time use and can be difficult to reuse in a presentable fashion. Fabric gift wrap, on the other hand, offers a reusable twist on traditional paper Christmas wrapping. It involves using fabric secured with knots, ribbons or other forms of haberdashery, to conceal a gift. Christmas fabric is available in a variety of colours, patterns and materials and is easy to customise to the shape of your gift, making it perfect for gifts in difficult to wrap shapes such as bottles or round gifts. This method of fabric gift wrapping allows you to get creative in your gifting process and helps to create a memorable gifting experience.
How To Gift Wrap With Fabric
Whether you're a beginner crafter or an expert when it comes to the world of fabrics, wrapping gifts with fabric is easy! Anyone can learn with just a little bit of guidance. One of the most common ways of using gift wrap is highlighted here:
- Lay your fabric out flat and cut the fabric in a square-like shape to suit the size of the gift, leaving enough room so as to cover your gift completely.
- Position the gift diagonally in the centre of the fabric, so if the corners were to be folded, they would meet in the middle.
- Fold one corner over the gift, then fold the opposite corner over so it covers the gift. If the corners are too large, simply fold them down once before pulling them over the gift.
- Secure the last two remaining corners in place by knotting, tying a ribbon or pinning it in place.
- And you're done! Your fabric-wrapped gift is ready to sit pretty under your Christmas tree or hand to your loved one.
Elegant Knots
Taking your last two remaining corners of your fabric gift wrap and tying them into a knot is an easy yet stylish approach to securing your fabric gift wrap in place. You can tie it tightly to neatly secure the wrapping in place, or opt for a looser knot that makes it easy to unwrap. You can then decorate your final product with ribbons, floristry and other haberdashery.
Just trust crafter and DIY extraordinaire Sophie, also known as her Instagram username @halyardhome. Sophie demonstrated how finishing your fabric gift wrapping with elegant knots not only helps your fabric stay securely wrapped around your gift but also infuses a homely ambience in your gift wrapping. Sophie demonstrated how, with a little fabric and some DIY finessing, you can create an adorable fabric wrap for the perfect gift presentation.
Sleek Folds
You can use the traditional folding technique of wrapping a Christmas gift (usually done so with paper gift wrap) by using fabric as well! Simply secure the folds in place with pins to keep the fabric wrap from opening. This method makes learning how to gift wrap with fabric a breeze! With no need to untangle knots or ribbons, the gift wrap unfolds easily once the pin is pulled. However, it's best to avoid using pins when wrapping a gift for a child.
Safety Tip: Make sure to warn of any pins in your gift wrap to save anyone from pricking their fingers.
Ribbons
The perfect finishing touch to any gift, ribbons are both practical and stylish. You can use ribbons to secure knots in place or decorate with them as a finishing touch to your Christmas gift wrap. Use patterned ribbons to stand out against plain fabric gift wrap, or shop for a coordinating green and red colour tone for a traditional Christmas charm.
Christmas Trims
Trims can provide a great addition to your Christmas gift wrap and can serve as a base for other Christmas haberdashery, such as Christmas ribbons. Other Christmas trims offer a more delicate, decorative touch to gift wrapping. Sparkling stars, baubles and even pom poms can bring an eye-catching and decorative charm to your gift presentations. Our Krafty wrapping project provides you with inspiration on how to add the perfect finishing touch to your Christmas gifts.
Add the Perfect Finishing Touch With DIY Christmas Gift Tags
Exchanging gifts can often grow to be a loud and busy event. Gift tags make identifying for whom each gift is intended that little bit easier. They also add a heartfelt decorative final touch to your gift presentation. Creating DIY Christmas gift tags helps to add an extra homemade touch to your Christmas gifts this festive season. Instagram crafter Sophie demonstrated just how easy it is to introduce an artistic accent into your gift presentation. Completing her creations with a handy loop, Sophie made DIY Christmas gift tags that are easy to attach to her fabric gift wrapping. Simply tie your DIY Christmas gift tags onto the knots for the perfect functional and decorative final touch.
Designs And Fabrics For A Very Merry Christmas
With sewing fabric, the opportunities for creativity are endless! You can craft a wide range of Christmas projects that infuse a sense of style into your gift-giving.
Adorable Fabric Covered Boxes
Fabric unlocks a whole world of creative opportunities. With fabric, you can create elegant fabric covered boxes just like Instagram crafter, Courtney - also known by her Instagram username as @my.lovelymate.
Starting with plain gift boxes as a blank canvas, Courtney cut strips of fabric and used PVA glue to make them stick to the box. She then sealed the fabric in place with mod podge. And for the perfect finishing touch, Courtney made bows out of spare pieces of fabric. Check out Courtney's Instagram reel to see how she put this stylish gift presentation together. This project is easy to recreate with any spare pieces of fabric left over from other craft projects, or great for those looking to elevate their gift presentation.
Christmas Fabrics & Stylish Gift Bags
Our selection of Christmas fabrics has a huge range of festive patterns from surfing Santas, to Christmas themed native Australian animals for an Aussie Christmas charm, to more neutral toned fabrics, with pops of gold and red Christmas symbols for a traditional Christmas vibe.
Christmas fabric gift wrap can also be used in a number of projects, as opposed to wrapping a gift with the fabric. Create drawstring gift bags for your loved ones to reuse for many more holiday seasons to come! You can also use everyday fabrics for these bags, providing your friends and family with an additional gift they can use in their everyday lives.
Tie Dye
Add a colourful and unique touch to your Christmas gift wrap and personalise your fabric gift wrap in your loved one's favourite colours with a tie dye fabric gift wrap. This style is much more versatile than themed Christmas fabric gift wrap and may be used all year round! It infuses an artistic accent into holiday celebrations and inspires creativity.
Santa Wine Bottle Holder
Wrapping bottles can be quite difficult with traditional paper gift wrap. It usually rips easily and is sometimes too structured to cover the top of the wine bottle neatly. Our Santa Wine Bottle Holder Project helps make it easy to cover your gifted wine bottles. Perfect for beginner crafters, this project outlines how you can elegantly wrap a wine bottle, completing the presentation with a sophisticated ribbon.
Get Creative With Fabric Gift Wrapping This Christmas
The holiday season is an opportunity for you to experiment with your creativity. From crafty Christmas projects to decorating your Christmas tree like a professional, you can find a great range of Christmas styling inspiration as well as Christmas tree decorations, Christmas home decor and Christmas tableware right here at Spotlight. Explore our full Christmas range, including Christmas sewing fabrics and Christmas cards, online or at a Spotlight store near you.
