{"id":460,"date":"2008-04-08T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/gifts-bags-spread\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T07:47:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:47:28","slug":"gifts-bags-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/gifts-bags-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts Bags Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> It is a little too early in the year for me to be encouraging you to get out your fabric and make fabric bags to wrap your gifts in (though it really is never too early), but Deirdre pointed me to the site below and I thought I would share another option for wrapping gifts in fabric. <\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 4px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin: 12px 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; width: 100%; clear: left;\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:5E40C973-5343-4D61-AD3B-8480CCDE8CC9:0 CLIPMARKS.COM --><\/p>\n<div class=\"CM_CTB_Content_Wrap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\n<div style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); background-image: url(http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/images\/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/clip-to-blog\/\" title=\"clipmarks' clip-to-blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content.clipmarks.com\/blog_icon\/3c3683f3-d41d-42d0-b269-4eedf834a828\/5E40C973-5343-4D61-AD3B-8480CCDE8CC9\/\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: medium none ; margin: 0px 4px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline; float: none;\" border=\"0\" height=\"19\" width=\"19\" \/><\/a>clipped from <a title=\"http:\/\/www.env.go.jp\/en\/focus\/060403.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.env.go.jp\/en\/focus\/060403.html\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\">www.env.go.jp<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"border: medium none ; margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 8px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: left; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\" cite=\"http:\/\/www.env.go.jp\/en\/focus\/060403.html\">\n<h1>Minister Koike created the &#8220;<em>Mottainai Furoshiki<\/em>&#8221; as a symbol of Japanese culture to reduce wastes.<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 2px 4px; background: rgb(220, 220, 220) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; height: 2px; font-size: 2px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"border: medium none ; margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 8px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: left; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\" cite=\"http:\/\/www.env.go.jp\/en\/focus\/060403.html\">\n<p>Ms Yuriko Koike, Minister of the Environment, has created the &#8220;<em>Mottainai Furoshiki<\/em>&#8221; as a symbol of Japanese culture to reduce waste. 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