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I am ready to start cutting out some pieces for this little guy. I have decided that I
want the body, this body part to be out of the stripy fabric because it is really pretty,
it is brilliant. I think it is nice. It is round and it is eighteen inches across and
the bowl I have is not eighteen inches. It is probably more like twelve inches. The first
thing I am going to do is I am going to just set it down like right in the middle and I
am going to go ahead and just trace it all the way around with my chalk. This is the
chalk that comes out with heat so I am not worried that it is going to show through on
the other side or make a mark. Now that I have my circle template laid out like that
I am going to go ahead and measure it. Yes, it is twelve inches. And so I want it to be
eighteen so I need to add four inches to each side. And this one, yes, this one is not quite
four, but it is close. It looks like three and three eighths or three quarters, but that
is okay. I will just do three and three quarters. You can make this any size you want. You can
make it real small or you can make it really big. Like if you want to do something that
was maybe twenty-four inches all the way across would be a bigger purse. And what you do is
if you get a template you can just make it as big as you want. You just kind of mark
right here out and then you add however many inches you want to do it. So that way if you
just don't have a template that is exactly the size that you want you can make it. There
are a couple of more spots over here. And once you get a lot of the marks in it is almost
like connecting the dots. You just kind of connect it. And this fabric is real slinky
and most likely the fabric that you chose is going to be real slinky too so you just
hold it down and mark it. I think I may have got that one a little off. No, I guess I didn't.
I am just going to make sure. There we go. Okay, so now that I have this marked the next
step is going to be for us to layer the lining with this and we are going to cut it out both
at the same time so we can cut them exactly the same size.