Gifting Query: Care labels?
Tis the season, and all of that, and I'm likely to be giving my Very First handknit gift this Xmas, and I have come up against a minor dilemma. It's a scarf out of 100% alpaca, so it needs a bit of care (tossing in the wash == bad) and while since the recipient is my dad so I can just TELL him what to do with it when it gets dirty, I was wondering how other folks handle this problem, particularly if you're giving the item to someone who isn't likely to ask for instructions (or donating to a charity or something)?
So what kind of information do you include when you give a knitted gift? Do you include a bit of the yarn(s) in case repair is needed, or do you only do that if you think the recipient is handy enough to do such repairs? Do you try to actually attach a care tag to it (like you'd get in commercial items) or do you just put a little note in of some sort?
I'm really quite curious about this now. :)
(For myself, if my belongings weren't mostly halfway across the Atlantic on a cargo ship and thus I had my paper supplies and so on, I would probably whip up some kind of semi-professional looking care card, and possibly a care tag to be sewn in using some ink jet transfer paper and a piece of ribbon, depending on if there was a good place to sew in a tag. Scarves are a bit difficult that way. :) )
So what kind of information do you include when you give a knitted gift? Do you include a bit of the yarn(s) in case repair is needed, or do you only do that if you think the recipient is handy enough to do such repairs? Do you try to actually attach a care tag to it (like you'd get in commercial items) or do you just put a little note in of some sort?
I'm really quite curious about this now. :)
(For myself, if my belongings weren't mostly halfway across the Atlantic on a cargo ship and thus I had my paper supplies and so on, I would probably whip up some kind of semi-professional looking care card, and possibly a care tag to be sewn in using some ink jet transfer paper and a piece of ribbon, depending on if there was a good place to sew in a tag. Scarves are a bit difficult that way. :) )