How to Wrap a Gift in Fabric

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Gifting season is upon us! 🎁 The Hazel Village animals know all about giving presents, and they have taught us a thing or two. During the busy holiday season, our small team of workshop elves expertly wrap hundreds of woodland friends every week before mailing them out to your homes. Sometimes we hear from people who want to take a peek at their purchase before they gift it, but are worried they might mess up the nice wrapping. For that reason, and also just to teach you a nifty skill, we wanted to share our tried-and-true method for wrapping gifts in fabric.

Emma Rabbit is wearing a dark red dress and a white knitted bonnet. She is lying on top of a white bandana with a dark red print.

We are demonstrating this method using Emma Rabbit and our Holiday 2023 collectible printed bandana. Every doll and animal purchase includes a complimentary bandana, which you can also reuse to wrap your own gifts. This year's original bandana artwork features many nice presents that the animals have made, accompanied by little notes they wrote to one another. Quite thoughtful, those animals ♥️

The bandana is placed in diamond orientation, with its printed side facing down. Emma Rabbit is placed lying horizontally in the middle.

First, place your fabric in a diamond orientation with one corner facing towards you. Place your gift sideways in the center of the fabric. 

The gift wrapper's hands are folding Emma Rabbit's legs up to make her more compact.

If you are wrapping a doll, tuck all its appendages (arms, legs, tag, tail, ears if it has tall ears) in towards the center. If you are wrapping something else, you would make sure it was folded as compactly as possible here.

The gift wrapper is pulling the bottom corner of the bandana tightly over Emma Rabbit, keeping Emma's limbs tucked in tight

Wrap the bottom corner of your fabric around the doll, pulling tightly. Keeping your bundle nice and snug is ESSENTIAL for this method! If you are confident in your tight swaddling, your odds of burrito success are much much higher. 

The gift wrapper has folded the right hand corner of the bandana over Emma Rabbit, still pulling tightly.

Fold one side corner over the doll, still pulling tightly.

The left hand corner of the bandana has been folded over Emma Rabbit.

Fold the other side corner. See how the bottom corners of this burrito are nice and snug? That is what you want. 

 

The gift wrapper is rolling the bundle away from herself to wrap the remaining corner around the bundle

Roll your bundle to the top corner of the fabric, and you should have a tidy burrito. 

The gift wrapper's hand holds a snugly wrapped burrito-shaped bundle

Now it is time to anchor everything in place with a nice ribbon. 

Hands tying a ribbon around the bandana bundle

We use the Tiffany bow method, which you can learn in this helpful video.  

The wrapped and tied present

And with that, your doll is all ready for gifting! 

Gif showing each step of the gift wrapping process as depicted in this blog

We highly recommend exploring our website for your gifting needs this holiday season. If you are local to NYC or plan on visiting the area, you can also visit us in person and say hi. A Hazel Village animal makes a perfectly charming and cozy gift for friends of all ages! ♥️🎁

Hazel Village doll Lewis Toad wears a corduroy tailcoat and sits next to a woven basket which is full of wrapped gifts