honestly for me it’s just a lot of trial and error - my ability to conceptualize 2D to 3D and vice versa is pretty limited, which is why it’s so hard and takes so long for me to make my own sewing patterns, haha.

odd-shaped packages that are still symmetrical are my favorites to figure out and the only thing i can think to say about it is just try to make sure you’re doing the same thing on each side. that makes it easier for me, personally.

and also don’t be afraid to unfold and try something new if a certain fold just isn’t working out. i usually don’t tape anything til i’m sure it’s what i want. and when i do i use very small pieces of tape so if i have to remove it, there’s less risk of ripping the paper badly.

the hardest things to wrap are ones that don’t have straight edges or symmetry. example: my mom decided everyone this year is getting blankets, so i had to wrap like… twelve blankets?? idk, i kinda lost count. and they weren’t in boxes, so basically it was like… wrapping vaguely rectangular but mostly amorphous bundles of fabric as is. i had no system for this, i swear i did something a little different with each one and some of them looked like shit, but the last few i did were at least somewhat neat.

then i had to wrap some pillows??? bc she got some cute pillows for the kids???

For the most part you're doing great but some of the socks on the website don't have the detailed sizing that most of them do and I would love to see that fixed

Oof, yeah, sometimes when we’re in the middle of the holiday rush, there are socks that just need to go live even though we haven’t figured out all of the sizing we’d normally get in less hectic months. Unfortunately we don’t have a great system for tracking and amending these items at this time, but if there’s anything you’re not sure about, don’t hesitate to email us! Usually if you request normal sizing info that wasn’t provided, we then go and add it to that product so it’s there for the next customer. I realize that this is not an ideal system, but we have so many items at this point that going through all of them would take.... unknown but probably large amounts of time. 

With that said, responding to your request has given me an idea for how we can better keep track of these things going forward... it wouldn’t be applicable to the products we’ve already got live, but it should help with future items. 

Thank you for your feedback!