This document provides instructions for making homemade gift bags using various fabrics. It recommends choosing a fine fabric and cutting it into a rectangle, then hemming the edges to form the bag. Next, the bag is folded in half and seamed along the sides, leaving it open at the top. Slits are cut in the folded edge and ribbon is threaded through to gather and close the top of the bag. Gift tags are added by threading ribbon through holes in the tags and tying bows. The finished bags can be used to attractively package gifts.

1. How to make Holiday Gift Bags?
Use our own Gift Bags to make the packaging
In the moment, everything is as easy as possible. It will be better if we do not need to do,
such a habit that has caused the jerry-building on the market now, so they do not make
efforts to produce good products. In the supermarket, we often see a very good gift has no
attractive packaging, so we cannot send it to other people, which is really annoying. Today,
we will talk about how to use our own gift bags to make the packaging. Maybe the gifts you
want to send are bought at the mall, but they do not use wrapping paper or bags, then what
are you going to do? As a matter of fact, you can use the multiply-used exquisite bag. As a
result, when you give it to friend, she/he not only receives a surprise belonging to her, and
also receives a very practical shopping bag. Why not do it? In addition, you can also use a
silk bag as packaging, so that it can show a noble, can add a lovely. Isn't it very good? Well,
here we start to talk about how to make it in details.
Steps to make gift packaging
1. Firstly, you need to choose a fine fabric. There are many choices, and you can carefully
pick on from the mall. Then you can cut out a 5 × 12 rectangle on the surface of the cloth.
Stock up 1/4 inch of the short side in the four corners. Last, make the four corners together
into the hem with a sewing machine.
2. Fold half of longitudinal fabric. Needle and the needle is only 1/4 inch along both sides,
leave it open. Eliminate the pins as you sew. Out to the right side, promoting the corner.
3. Make five or six slits in the top of the bag with scissors. The top edge of the slit is
approximately 1 inch. Prepare a piece of tape about 10-12 inches long. Cut one end of the
thread through all the cracks in the bag. Pull it even until the last loose end through the slit.
Pull until it collects at the top of the bag together.
4. Gift card with a hole on the top. Write down the name of the recipient on the gift tags.
Loose ends of the ribbon-cutting through the back of the hole in the gift tag. Make a ribbon

2. bow. Repeat steps 1 to 4, the gift bag you need is finished!
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