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First we'll cut our fabric for covering our cup. Now you want to cut enough fabric so
that there, lay your cup on the fabric so that you have about an inch on the bottom
hanging off. Then on the other side
you're going to be wrapping the cup with the fabric and you want to leave about six or
so inches on the top or depending upon the size of your cup, about double the size of
your cup. I'm just going to cut it off like that, making sure we have enough to wrap around
the cup and have a little overlap. Okay, and just test it out here. That looks good. I'm
going to just trim it a little bit to make it straight here on the top. Next I want to
turn down the edge, the top edge and I'm going to just sew carefully. First I'm going to
press this; this fabric is not holding flat. I'll press it, and I'm going to sew just a
simple in and out stitch along the top so that we can gather it later. So I've threaded
my needle, and I'm just going to put my needles, just sew in and out, in fairly large stitches
all along the top and this will become our gather line. You want to come down about a
half inch from the top and in the end, we'll gather that around the neck of the puppet.
So pull it through and I'm going to cut off my thread here from the needle and then just
put a knot on the end of this side. So I have a knot on one side and a knot on the other
side, and then later we'll want to gather it up like this.