Petal Pusher Pockets

**UPDATE: Please visit my updated website to view this post and download a template for these petal-shaped gift boxes.

Holidays Fit for the King is coming up this weekend! I'm SO excited! This year our committee is wearing petal pushers made by Lindsey from The Pleated Poppy. When I was trying to decide how to give these yummy little goodies to our group I was stumped. How do you wrap this up?

I discovered this tutorial that I really wanted to try, but for the life of me could not figure it out... humph! But just as nap time was coming to an end and the situation was getting drastic... an idea hit!

Let me suggest that you make these with someone around because these are definitely squeal-worthy and you'll want to show them off! Here's the tutorial:

Draw a square the size of the odd shaped gift (mine was a 3 inch square). Locate the middle of the square and draw a big X. The distance from the farthest point of the X to the center of one of the sides of the square should be 1/2 inch larger than the side of the square. The picture below might help:

Grab something with a good arch (I used an embroidery hoop) and draw in the arches.

Here's what the design looks like before you cut it out: Oh I can't wait to wrap up these beauties! Trace the template on to double sided card stock then hole punch the tops of the four "petals".Line up the holes in three of the petals and thread a piece of ribbon through. Put the two ends of the ribbon together then thread them up through the fourth petal's hole. Tie a bow. Then squeal! I'll have tons of pictures from HFFK next week... get excited!

Update:

• Thanks to Aimee over at Homespun Threads for putting together a downloadable PDF for these boxes. You can find it here.
• The Petal Pockets have been entered in Michael's Handmade Holidays contest. If you'd like to vote for them, please click here. Thanks so much!