1 00:00:08,211 --> 00:00:10,613 Hello. Today we are going to make two letters 2 00:00:10,613 --> 00:00:12,482 of russian alphabet. 3 00:00:12,482 --> 00:00:16,350 Letter Б and hard sign Ъ твёрдый знак 4 00:00:16,350 --> 00:00:20,423 Inflate a balloon leaving about four inch flat tail. 5 00:00:20,423 --> 00:00:22,933 Recently I kept my self quite busy 6 00:00:22,933 --> 00:00:25,760 helping translate previously published instructions 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,644 from English to Russian. 8 00:00:27,644 --> 00:00:29,734 Russian is my native language. 9 00:00:29,734 --> 00:00:33,169 And here we are making letters of Russian ABC 10 00:00:33,169 --> 00:00:36,003 Twist the first soft about one inch bubble. 11 00:00:36,003 --> 00:00:40,107 Lock both ends of the first bubble in one lock twist. 12 00:00:40,107 --> 00:00:43,397 First I want to make a sculpture of russian letter Б. 13 00:00:43,397 --> 00:00:47,684 And then we will use the same sculpture to make hard sign Ъ 14 00:00:47,684 --> 00:00:51,923 Twist the second about four inch bubble. 15 00:00:51,923 --> 00:00:56,093 Twist the third soft about one inch bubble. 16 00:00:56,093 --> 00:01:00,470 Lock both ends of the third bubble in one lock twist. 17 00:01:00,470 --> 00:01:04,144 In this example I work from the top of the letter. 18 00:01:04,144 --> 00:01:08,905 Twist the fourth about three, four inch bubble. 19 00:01:08,905 --> 00:01:13,877 Twist the fifth soft about one inch bubble. 20 00:01:13,877 --> 00:01:18,412 Lock both ends of the fifth bubble in one lock twist. 21 00:01:18,412 --> 00:01:25,319 Alright, now lets twist the sixth about four inch bubble. 22 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:30,231 Now we twist the seventh soft about one inch bubble. 23 00:01:30,231 --> 00:01:34,670 Lock both ends of the seventh bubble in one lock twist. 24 00:01:34,670 --> 00:01:37,101 Now we have to measure the size of the next 25 00:01:37,101 --> 00:01:39,643 eighth bubble. 26 00:01:39,643 --> 00:01:42,810 Shape the rest of the balloon to make a semicircle. 27 00:01:42,810 --> 00:01:45,672 Grab the balloon next to the fifth bubble. 28 00:01:45,672 --> 00:01:49,681 It is the point where we twist the eighth bubble. 29 00:01:49,681 --> 00:01:53,392 Lock both ends of the chain of the last three bubbles 30 00:01:53,392 --> 00:01:55,586 in one lock twist. 31 00:01:55,586 --> 00:02:02,197 We can bend the eighth bubble to give it slightly square shape 32 00:02:02,197 --> 00:02:05,127 And look! We have made the letter Б. 33 00:02:05,127 --> 00:02:08,438 Alright, lets cut off the rest of the balloon. 34 00:02:08,438 --> 00:02:12,699 Tie off the end or hide it between bubbles. 35 00:02:12,699 --> 00:02:20,314 Now lets twist all bubbles in proper positions. 36 00:02:20,314 --> 00:02:24,747 Congratulations again, we have made Russian letter Б. 37 00:02:24,747 --> 00:02:27,781 We can attach letters to each other to make words 38 00:02:27,781 --> 00:02:31,289 using sewing threads. 39 00:02:31,289 --> 00:02:34,717 I prefer to use sewing threads of the same colors 40 00:02:34,717 --> 00:02:37,794 as the background color. 41 00:02:37,794 --> 00:02:41,465 It make the sewing thread invisible for human eye. 42 00:02:41,465 --> 00:02:44,935 In this example I have dark, almost black background 43 00:02:44,935 --> 00:02:48,839 And so, I chose black sewing thread. 44 00:02:48,839 --> 00:02:56,150 So, here we loop sewing thread between the bubbles of the sculpture. 45 00:02:56,150 --> 00:03:00,990 To suspend the letter in air. 46 00:03:00,990 --> 00:03:03,289 So, again in this fashion we can attach letters 47 00:03:03,289 --> 00:03:04,791 to make words. 48 00:03:04,791 --> 00:03:06,923 One has to come really close to the sculpture 49 00:03:06,923 --> 00:03:10,258 to see how we attach letters to each other. 50 00:03:10,258 --> 00:03:15,497 We can use the letter Б to make Ъ hard sign, твёрдый знак. 51 00:03:15,497 --> 00:03:19,544 In this example I use blue balloon to make another letter B 52 00:03:19,544 --> 00:03:23,279 This time I turn the top part of the letter B 53 00:03:23,279 --> 00:03:28,009 in opposite direction to make hard sign, Ъ твёрдый знак. 54 00:03:28,009 --> 00:03:32,315 Congratulations again, we have made Russian letter Б 55 00:03:32,315 --> 00:03:34,457 and hard sign. 56 00:03:34,457 --> 00:03:37,349 We work both letters in exactly the same way. 57 00:03:37,349 --> 00:03:39,826 Have fun and happy twisting :)