Fabric gift bags?

[Wrinklyeyes]

Those of you who use these for your Christmas wrapping, would you mind sharing where you get them from please? I have had a Google. Will be looking for a mixture of sizes. There will inevitably be some things which don’t fit and will need to use paper for but am keen to use fabric for as many presents as possible next year.

Am ashamed at how much waste we produce as a household, especially over Christmas. And I flipping hate wrapping.

We have quite a few that we received when people sent gifts from Amazon.

For the past two years I have got Christmas tote bags from Asda which were reduced from £4 to £2, I might go and look in the sale and see if they have them even cheaper.

You can also bulk buy canvas tote bags from Ebay and get some fabric pens to decorate them.

I sew up my own, buy fabric on sale after Christmas for in house gifts. Paper for out of house, they are work and don’t plan on giving them away.

@fallfallfall

I sew up my own, buy fabric on sale after Christmas for in house gifts. Paper for out of house, they are work and don’t plan on giving them away.

Upcycled PJ and legoings work well too.

Tea towels are good, gathered around present and tied with a ribbon. Sellotape works fine on them too.

I made mine.

Various scraps collected, also used old Christmas t-shirts/dresses etc from charity shop. Cheap way to get material!

Found some suitable thread at charity shop as well.
Quite easy to make.

What about using cushion covers in festive colours and designs? No sewing needed and you can just zip them up.

Have a look at pegasusgiftsco on insta/Etsy, she has lots of lovely fabric gift/bottle bags in gorgeous fabrics!

Thanks everyone - I can’t sew but I can definitely upcycle Christmas stuff we have in the cupboard given to us and not used. And cushions - genius - ready-made zips! Will also check out Etsy.

For "out of house" presents. I save all the brown paper that comes in the Amazon boxes. Flatten it out and fold it up. Then use that for wrapping up.

If I'm feeling festive, I'll decorate it. But usually it's just tape or string.

I got lots from homesense this year

I have some of the Amazon gift bags in large & small sizes, they're sparkly and look quite festive. I also have a Christmas pillowcase which we usually put one big present in & tie it closed with a ribbon. Not sure if it was part of a bedding set or specifically for presents (found it in a charity shop), but there are so many Christmas bedding sets in charity shops every year that I'm sure you could get hold of a few pillowcases

Pinking shears are your friend here for cutting up material. I have used old shirts, curtains, pj's etc. I have also bought some material, some festive and some plain for use for birthdays during the year. Very quick to hand sew a rectangle even tbough I'm not an expert. Best thing ever - so quick and easy to wrap and I no longer have to stuff bin bags full of paper on Christmas morning. I noticed some for sale this year in TK maxx also.

Pillowcases eg. Deep emerald green (tie with pretty ribbon)

I purchased some fabric gift bags from John Lewis ( not festive at the time) they were in a sale £5 for 3.

Some great ideas here for up cycling. It’s important to realise that fabric wrapping potentially has a much higher carbon footprint than paper. The manufacturing processes of fabric are very unfriendly to the environment.

Saving wrapping like our grannies did might not be as Instagram worthy but it’s far more efficient.

I use pillowcases. I keep an eye out for suitably coloured/patterned ones in charity shops.

You can also make gift bags out of paper - like this: designertrapped.com/how-to-make-a-gift-bag-from-wrapping-paper/

They can be reused as well if your family would be onboard with that

Great idea with old pjs, especially festive ones that have been outgrown!

Pinking shears are going on the post Christmas list.

Turning into my mum and I love it.

I just save the ones I'm given!

Buy Xmas fat quarters and some ribbon

I got mine from Etsy. Cost a couple of pounds each in lots of different sizes.
Made 'wrapping' much quicker than usual and now all neatly stowed away for next year. Perfect!

@BerthaBlythe

Some great ideas here for up cycling. It’s important to realise that fabric wrapping potentially has a much higher carbon footprint than paper. The manufacturing processes of fabric are very unfriendly to the environment.

Saving wrapping like our grannies did might not be as Instagram worthy but it’s far more efficient.

I do both tbh.

Use old clothes/charity shop finds and turn into bags for home and family.
Keep wrapping paper from others, and Amazon brown paper to reuse for out of house gifts.

It's more of an "issue" buying bags ready made