As I may have mentioned, I am posting questions throughout the day that will enable you to be eligible to win prizes during the Black Friday Sew-in. Some of the prizes will be awarded in a random drawing, but if I really like an answer, I might award that person a prize as well. My blog, my rules. If you object, don’t enter.
Task 1 / Question #2: Make a gift bag. I have posted a link on my tutorial page for a few years that shows you how to make holiday gift bags. You do not have to make a Christmas gift bag (kind of silly, if you don’t celebrate Christmas!). You can make a bag to use for birthdays or general gift giving.
Reasons to make and use gift bags:
- Festive gift bags save time during gift giving times, because they are quick to use.
- Great use of all that festive fabric now that you have decided not to make a Christmas or ___fill in the holiday blank___ quilt.
- You are not using paper that will get ripped off and recycled in a month anyway.
- No tape.
- Easy to open and look in if the gift tag falls off.
Fair warning: You will can only win or be entered in the drawing if you make a gift bag and show a picture of it somewhere.
I have the following books to giveaway:
Master’s Art Quilts v.1 (see review)
Master’s Art Quilts v.2 (see review)
Art Quilt Portfolio (see review )
Quilt it with Love: The Project Linus Story
Shape Workshop for Quilters
+ 3 older charm packs
Thanks to Shannon at Lark Crafts and to Ray Hemachandra for sending along the books and being supportive of the Black Friday Sew-in.
Sent you my pic on twitter. Thanks for the idea. We adopted a new dog 2 weeks ago, and it’s obvious why he’s a rescue. We didn’t have him home 10 minutes before he found a shallow spot under the fence and wriggled through. On Wednesday afternoon he got out again, but this time we couldn’t catch him. We searched for 2 hours before getting a phone call that a neighbor had found him wandering in the middle of the road and put him in their fenced yard with their own dog. I wanted to bring them a little thank you with some treats for their dog and a gift card to our local ice cream parlor for their teen daughter who actually found him. Gracie made a thank you note on the computer, and this bag makes the gift extra special!
I went looking at the gift bag and lo and behold! saw the Journal Cover! YES! I made two of them. Maybe gift bags later………love the way you do the Journal Covers, it was like finding the missing piece of the puzzle for me!
glen
nonniequiltingdreams@gmail.com
Never know if I am NO REPLY poster or not…..
No pictures cause they are in with the Christmas decorations. I have made a series of fabric bags of all sizes every year for the past 10 to 15 years. All the adults get the fabric bags… the kids get paper cause …. 1/ their gifts are from Santa 2/ They love to rip the paper off in their excitement. When they are older they start getting the fabric wrapped gifts too; usually about age of 12 years. It becomes a badge of HONOR with the teens… they are no longer babies.
The fabric bags are recirculated among the adults every year…. I put dates on them when I started making them. It is really funny for the guys to give a little gift in a BIG BAG. THEY think it is funny… the girls do not seem to mind too much because the SMALL gifts usually sparkle.
Nonnie
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No such thing as a no-reply poster on my blog. Either you put in your info or you can’t post a comment. Tricky, huh? Would love to see photos of your gift bags. Did you post about them previously?
I have made gift bags in the past and will be making some to put the infinity scarves I am making for my nieces. This week I made little bags for my kids to keep their little iPods in so they don’t get lost so easily. Not sure that those count as gift bags though. 🙂
Here are this week’s bags harriethomemakerstrikesagain.blogspot.com/2012/11/sewing-and-sick.html
And the Christmas gift bag from 2 years ago: harriethomemakerstrikesagain.blogspot.com/2010/12/wip-wednesday_15.html
Thanks for the fun questions and giveaway!
I made totes filled with School supplies for my kids’ teachers too, but I can’t find the post.