{"id":4478,"date":"2012-05-10T14:49:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2012-05-10T14:49:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:49:25","slug":"wrap-it-for-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/wrap-it-for-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrap It for Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/7172421506\/\" title=\"mom-title- by Lisa | goodknits, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8007\/7172421506_4b067b5f96_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" alt=\"mom-title-\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mother&#8217;s Day is this Sunday! I&#8217;m going to plant a rose bush (or 3) for my mom, but every year I also get the grandmas a photo book (standard 8&#8243;x11&#8243; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapfish.com\/snapfish\/fe\/photo-books\" target=\"_blank\">Snapfish<\/a>) filled with photos of their grandsons. Because who do moms love more than their own kids? Their GRANDKIDS. It&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve had the books for a few days and I&#8217;ve been trying to think of how to wrap them. I&#8217;ve done wrapping paper, decorated kraft paper, and even scrap fabric in the past. This year, I went with vintage silk scarves. I had two sizes. One was a big 36&#8243;x36&#8243; square and the other (this one!) was a bit smaller, at 21&#8243;x21&#8243;. Here&#8217;s how I wrapped it:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/7172422026\/\" title=\"mom-steps by Lisa | goodknits, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5461\/7172422026_63876382ae_z.jpg\" width=\"483\" height=\"640\" alt=\"mom-steps\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>1. Place the book face down on the scarf with the edges of the book facing the corners of the scarf. Tie a knot with the 2 corners on the short side of the book.<br \/>\n2. Flip the whole thing over and a tie a knot with the adjacent corners. This is the &#8220;front.&#8221; Optionally, you can tuck in the little flaps on the back knot. If your scarf is little, like mine, you&#8217;ll be able to see some of the book poking through, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/7172423640\" target=\"_blank2\">like this<\/a>. I rather like the texturing coming through from the linen book cover.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/7172424602\/\" title=\"wrapped for mom by Lisa | goodknits, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7079\/7172424602_e0a0d64750_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" alt=\"wrapped for mom\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Finish it off with a pretty tag. I wrote out the word mom on a piece of cardstock, poked holes with my embroidery needle, then used two strands of floss to trace my letters. It took 10 minutes tops!<\/p>\n<p>Are you doing anything special for your mom or mom-like figure in your life this weekend?<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgoodknits.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F05%2F10%2Fwrap-it-for-mom%2F&media=https%3A%2F%2Fgoodknits.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F05%2F01.jpg&description=Wrapping+a+photo+book+for+Mother%27s+Day+with+a+silk+scarf.\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"horizontal\">Pin It<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8007\/7172421506_4b067b5f96_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" alt=\"mom-title-\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mother&#8217;s Day is this Sunday! I&#8217;m going to plant a rose bush (or 3) for my mom, but every year I also get the grandmas a photo book (standard 8&#8243;x11&#8243; from Snapfish) filled with photos of their grandsons. Because who do moms love more than their own kids? Their GRANDKIDS. It&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve had the books for a few days and I&#8217;ve been trying to think of [Read More&#8230;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgoodknits.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F05%2F10%2Fwrap-it-for-mom%2F&media=https%3A%2F%2Fgoodknits.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F05%2F01.jpg&description=Wrapping+a+photo+book+for+Mother%27s+Day+with+a+silk+scarf.\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"horizontal\">Pin It<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,5,42],"tags":[232,183,11,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}