How to Repurpose Vintage Fabric for Gift Wrapping
Happy December everyone! This month is all about the Holidays, decorating our home, the…
This month is all about the Holidays, decorating our home, the trees and wrapping the presents. All of these fun activities can take a toll on a person. Especially me! Today I’m going to show you how I do my gift wrapping with vintage fabric.
I love to see the presents all wrapped up and placed under the tree in time for Christmas. I remember as a little kid anxiously waiting to open those presents. And when my kids were young I’d sent them off to bed and stay up half the night wrapping boxes and adding embellishments. It had become a therapeutic ritual for me after all of the rushing around and shopping.
This of course was when the kids were little. As they grew older I tried to be frugal with the wrapping paper because it was a waste to throw all that paper away. And believe me with four kids, it was a LOT of paper. I even tried using it as a fire starter at one point but I think it was not the best paper for that idea.
In my effort to reduce all of this paper waste I started to wrap gifts with fabric scraps that I had at home – and not just for Christmas. I have lots of pieces of fabric either from old clothes or from curtains that I don’t use anymore. You can use old tablecloths, old sheets anything really as long as you like the pattern and fabric. And I know you have them too, you just need to look at them from a different perspective.
Who says we have to throw everything away? Many of these ribbons that are on the pastry box are so pretty… of course what’s inside the pastry box is also very good, but that’s another story.
If you have a ribbon with writing on it, there is a way to get the ink off. The solution was provided by L’Atelier de Marie-Anne over here. Thank you Marie-Anne, now I can use up all of my pastry ribbons! And they are aplenty!!
The lace you see below was part of a dress my girls wore when they were little and sweet. Well they are not little anymore and they don’t wear lace, and as for sweet, well, as a mama I have to say they are still sweet!
I made this tag by cutting a circle and then using an old hole punch I found to make this pattern.
I hope you have enjoyed my ideas on how to repurpose vintage fabric (or any fabric for that matter) for gift wrapping. Have you ever wrapped your gifts in unusual ways?
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I would never have thought to use material. I hate to see all that lovely paper and cards just discarded, ripped off and trashed.
Kathleen
Blogger’s Pit Stop
I love the recycling aspect and the packages are absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing, Mary!
Mary! Another fab idea! I want so much to be like you. 😉 Thanks so much for joining the To Grandma’s House We Go link party!
What a gorgeous way to wrap thing Mary I love your use of fabric
Love this eco friendly gift wrap idea Mary, thanks for sharing.
I so appreciate your eco friendly approach to wrapping gifts, Mary! I love that everything used can either be reused or repurposed.
This is wonderful and a great way to give vintage fabric a new life! Thank you, Shared. 🙂
Dropped by from #BloggersPitStop and so glad I did. 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you kindly. 🙂
I found your link on Handmade Monday. What gorgeous wrapping!! Thank you for all these ideas. I have provided a link to your site in my newest blog “10 Ways to Wrap with Fabric”. https://whatsnanamaking.com/10-ways-to-wrap-with-fabric/
Thank you so much Nana! I wish you all the best for the holidays!
This is such a cute idea, and my family would so totally expect it from me lol. since I do a lot of sewing andf am pretty frugal. Thanks for sharing on Bloggers Pit Stop. Hope to see you next week.
I find wrapping presents really therapeutic too, Mary! Yours all look beautiful – and what a wonderfully frugal, environmentally friendly and meaningful way to wrap gifts. Thank you so much for sharing with the Hearth and Soul Link Party. I’m featuring this post at the party this week. Hope to ‘see’ you there! Have a great week ahead!
Loved your idea Mary. With 2 kids (now grown) we considered it a good Christmas when we filled the woodstove 4x with the wrapping paper. Is there ANYTHING green in that statement? My Depression-era mom saved and ironed paper and ribbon. I consider it a fire hazaard and buy the cheapest stuff I can find after Christmas! Well, I started sewing cloth bags with pretty ribbons/cord/lace set into the side seam for my church’s bazaar and family. One friend and I sent it back and forth for 3 years! My kids could have cared less about keeping these bags so they’d come back home with me! Then I started using my cooky tins and vintage tins, too. I’m not above saving an oatmeal box either! This last year I wrapped cereal boxes (top cut off) in wrapped paper, added yarn/ribbon handles for gift box/bags and made toilet paper roll “pillow packs” for jewelry. Sold sets of 4 different sizes as a set at the bazaar for a measly $1. My town’s transfer station does not recycle lightweight cardboard and THAT hurts my Scotch-Irish-Polish sense of thrift!