Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Furoshiki

Another post today? Can you tell i'm at home today with my feet in the air (I still have a sore foot from the marathon so am giving it a little TLC today) and doodling on the internet....:0)

Furoshiki - japanese way of wrapping up objects in cloth squares either to carry them or to gift them. I just discovered this and can't believe I haven't seen it before! What a wonderful reuseable gift wrapping, and you know how much I love cloth giftwrapping!

Here are some instructions from Mommy Cooks on how to make your own Furoshiki cloths

Here are instructions on how to wrap your Furoshiki to fit over many objects

1 comment:

LSULiv said...

They also do this in Korea and I first saw it when they did it with cakes and other boxed bakery items. Makes so much sense and can be so pretty!