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Summary: Pull cheesecloth tightly around the gift for the final touch. Learn how to tighten and secure cheesecloth in this free gift wrapping video.
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"OK, now this, you can see, kind of looks ratty and unfinished. But don't worry, because we're going to make it, all gather up into, sort of a billow. First thing you want to do, is find a thread, that runs from the edge, up to the neck of the bottle. Just one. We'll pull that one thread, it's a little delicate. I'm going to pull two. That's fine too. Just pull, pull, pull, pull, pull. And it's gathering the cheesecloth, up to the neck. And then, we'll tie that in a little knot, to hold it in place. Kind of like the knot that you would tie at the end, of a piece of thread, when you've threaded a needle. Oops. There we go. And we're going to do that, all the way around. Just finding that thread, that leads up to the bottle. Pull, pull, pull. Here's another one. We're going to pull two on this one, because it's a big piece. Pull and gather. Tie that one off. There we go. And now we have a very pretty, wrapped gift, that we can take to a dinner party, or open up and enjoy ourselves."
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