Saturday, November 26, 2011

Helen's furoshiki.

I love when things are well presented. Helen's birthday was coming up and I had run out of wrapping paper to wrap her gift. I recently learned about Japanese furoshiki where people use beautifully printed fabric as an eco friendly way to wrap gifts. There's a similar Korean tradition called pojagi. I found some pretty pink fabric from my stash, cut, hemmed, and trimmed with cotton lace. The end result was a small handkerchief sized square of finished fabric which I used to wrap Helen's birthday present: