Preparing a Sock Making a Sock Puppet

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"Hi, this is Grace Fitzpatrick here on behalf of Expert Village and I am going to talk about how to transfer your sock puppet design to your sock. Before you start making your sock puppet it's good to take the design that you have drawn, which in my case is the front of the sock puppet and the back where the mouth is. This is sort of an upside down view. I am going to make little dotted lines and marks so that I know where I am going to put the eyes and the nose and just the rest of the features. It's good to always plan these things out so you're not kind of diving into it blindfolded. So you want to put your arm in the puppet like it's going to be when you are actually using the puppet so that you know where your features are going to belong. So, I am just going to make two little marks with my Sharpie, like that and that's where I am going to put my eyes. Then, I want the pom pom of this puppet, which is going to be it's nose, to be at the tip. So I am going to put my fingers down at the tip and just make it, spread it out so it's not folded up and you have a good clear idea of where you want to put it and I am just going to make a dot where I am going to put the nose. Now I know the puppet's hair is going to be somewhere on the back of its head, so I have four pieces of yarn where the hair is going to be. So you can actually sort of lay out the yarn if you like and place where it's going to be. We are going to put four little dots so that I know where to sew that yarn on. And then underneath, you turn over your sock puppet, you want to think about where your mouth is going to go. Remember that you want the puppet to be able to bend its mouth so you want the mouth to extend right over to your thumb. For this I am actually going to take my hand out so that I can get a flat surface to draw on. If you take another sock puppet, this finished sock puppet, and lay it out next to it. You see that the mouth goes really up to the tip, but since this is a smaller sock, the most important thing is that the thumb ends up being right at the base of the mouth. So I am going to draw my oval for this guy sort of like so, remembering that he is going to have a bit of a floppy nose. "