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Hello. Today we are going to make two letters

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of russian alphabet.

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Letter Б and hard sign Ъ твёрдый знак

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Inflate a balloon leaving about four inch flat tail.

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Recently I kept my self quite busy

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helping translate previously published instructions

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from English to Russian.

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Russian is my native language.

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And here we are making letters of Russian ABC

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Twist the first soft about one inch bubble.

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Lock both ends of the first bubble in one lock twist.

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First I want to make a sculpture of russian letter Б.

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And then we will use the same sculpture to make hard sign Ъ

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Twist the second about four inch bubble.

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Twist the third soft about one inch bubble.

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Lock both ends of the third bubble in one lock twist.

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In this example I work from the top of the letter.

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Twist the fourth about three, four inch bubble.

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Twist the fifth soft about one inch bubble.

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Lock both ends of the fifth bubble in one lock twist.

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Alright, now lets twist the sixth about four inch bubble.

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Now we twist the seventh soft about one inch bubble.

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Lock both ends of the seventh bubble in one lock twist.

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Now we have to measure the size of the next

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eighth bubble.

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Shape the rest of the balloon to make a semicircle.

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Grab the balloon next to the fifth bubble.

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It is the point where we twist the eighth bubble.

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Lock both ends of the chain of the last three bubbles

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in one lock twist.

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We can bend the eighth bubble to give it slightly square shape

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And look! We have made the letter Б.

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Alright, lets cut off the rest of the balloon.

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Tie off the end or hide it between bubbles.

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Now lets twist all bubbles in proper positions.

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Congratulations again, we have made Russian letter Б.

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We can attach letters to each other to make words

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using sewing threads.

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I prefer to use sewing threads of the same colors

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as the background color.

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It make the sewing thread invisible for human eye.

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In this example I have dark, almost black background

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And so, I chose black sewing thread.

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So, here we loop sewing thread between the bubbles of the sculpture.

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To suspend the letter in air.

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So, again in this fashion we can attach letters

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to make words.

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One has to come really close to the sculpture

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to see how we attach letters to each other.

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We can use the letter Б to make Ъ hard sign, твёрдый знак.

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In this example I use blue balloon to make another letter B

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This time I turn the top part of the letter B

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in opposite direction to make hard sign, Ъ твёрдый знак.

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Congratulations again, we have made Russian letter Б

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and hard sign.

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We work both letters in exactly the same way.

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Have fun and happy twisting :)