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Salvaged Blouse to Gift Bag

April 22, 2014 By Amy 6 Comments

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Is it necessary to DIY your own gift bag? We DIY everything else, can’t we put a halt to things at some point after we’ve gone and hand made a gift and just before we are getting ready to wrap that gift up? Oh… I couldn’t agree more, but I’ve made my own gift bag just the same. Remember the springy vase from the salvaged foofy blouse? Yeah…that one, well I’ve gone and re-purposed the other blouse arm, this time as a gift bag.

re-purposed-blouse-jacket-gift-bagYeppers and it actually looked rather complimentary to the purple tulips when I brought the whole gift ensemble to my sister’s house for Easter brunch.

In some circles this blouse/ jacket may be considered…out of style…not yet in style…never WILL BE in style…EVER…, but I couldn’t help it, I thought the texture of this fabric was interesting, intricate and doggonit, people I like me it!

Other clothing gift bags options might be:

Weathered flannel shirt gift bags, ugly Christmas sweater gift bags, pretty-cozy-fuzzy sweater gift bags, blue jean jacket gift bags…

Mentioning right about now that proper laundering and care of garment prior to gift bag making is highly recommended.

 

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Cut off blouse arm to make gift bag

So, I cut off the arm of the blouse/jacket.

Turned the blouse arm inside out and sewed a stitch along the bottom. Actually I ran the stitch along the bottom 3 times to ensure that it was secure enough to hold things inside the soon to be gift bag. Turn right side back out.

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Fill gift bag, add some twine

That’s it! I filled up my gift bag with a “traditional” hostess type of gift (aka: bottle of wine) and gave it a wrap with some twine.

 

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In celebration of blouse sleeve gift bags and gift giving altogether,  I’m holding a small giveaway, later this week of a  Lemon Parfait Pedicure gift set from Mary Kay.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are having a great week! ~ Amy

   

 

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Comments

  1. Mel says

    April 22, 2014 at 6:03 am

    thats actually a really cute idea and handy too. Why not diy it if you can do it cheap and fun go for it!

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  2. heather f says

    April 22, 2014 at 10:31 am

    Ugggh!!! you are too much! Making a cute gift bag out of the other sleeve!! I do love your advice of properly cleaning said salvage-find. lol too funny….but too true. I think this turned out great. Wondering what you’re going to do with the rest of this shirt.

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  3. Anne says

    April 22, 2014 at 9:17 pm

    Super pretty blouse! and what a sweet gift bag it makes – lovely idea!!

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  4. Danni@SiloHillFarm says

    April 23, 2014 at 5:23 am

    THat is really cute Amy! As I’m packing and sorting my clothes for the move, I’m going to save a few shirts for gift bags. And yeah…we kind of have to make our own gift bags too sometimes! LOL!

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  5. Feral Turtle says

    April 23, 2014 at 10:07 am

    Pure genius!! That is such a pretty gift bag! I still love that shirt but I guess that’s why I don’t have a fashion blog.

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  6. Kelly @ Eclectically Vintage says

    April 26, 2014 at 8:05 am

    Great idea – do you think the thrift store would mind if I donated old clothes … minus the sleeves!
    Kelly

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