Dec Model of the Month 2012 (Heart)

Started by Graham Lee, December 12, 2012, 04:57:30 PM

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funat60

#15
I really like that "variation", it adds a little class to the creation.  Very nice!  (Of course, now I have to go try that too!! LOLOL)
Millie
Twisting Grandma

Graham Lee

#16
The heart is 9 days old now and I thought it would be good for wings,
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funat60

#17
Cute!
Millie
Twisting Grandma

Graham Lee

#18
Thanks to Cindy, funat60 and cindyt for having a go at the heart, I will try to put the instructions up over the weekend.
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#19
The instructions for the heart, I have made in different colours so hopefully a little easier to follow along with.

Inflate a 260, leave 6/7 fingers un-inflated. It may be easier for the first few times you make this to pre-stretch the balloons so they are a little longer.
Leave a reasonable amount of balloon at the knot end to tie into the first pinch twist that you make.
You will need a 3 finger bubble and then a 1 finger pinch twist and another 3 finger bubble.
Tie the knot around the second 3 finger bubble and push through both 3 finger bubbles to secure, wrap the excess from the knot around the first pinch twist.
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#20
This is then like a flower petal and you need to make three more exactly the same and the same size.
You should have four petals with 3 finger bubbles and a 1 finger pinch twist.
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#21
The last petal you are making will be a 4 finger bubble, 1 finger oinch twist and then another 4 finger bubble.
Make two more five petal flowers exactly the same, you will probably find that one of the flowers looks a little different and two similar, if so use the odd one at the bottom of the heart and the two similar at the top, it will help to hide things up by doing this way. That is if they are different, you may have made three exactly the same. With the petals laid out on the floor you need to twist them together as per the pictures. From the longer petal miss one out and twist the next petals together from either flower.
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#22
Do the same with the other side, from the longer petal miss one out and then twist the next ones from either flower together.
The last two balloons to make the Heart should be 7 fingers un-inflated and pre-strecth the balloon before inflating and possibly stretch again when inflated
to make a little longer and a little softer. Tie these together and cut off the knot ends, twist into the bottom longer petal of the flower.
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#23
Then twist a 3 finger bubble up to the next pinch twist on the same flower, do this on both sides of the Heart.
You now need a 4 finger bubble going across to the petal from the top flower on the Heart.
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#24
You then need a 3 finger bubble that connects to where you joined the two flowers together with the two pinch twists.
Twist another 3 finger bubble back to the pinch twist on the first flower, hopefully you can follow the picture here OK.
Then twist another 4 finger bubble from the lower flower petal to the top flower petal, ther eare two 4 finger bubbles here which help to hold the single 3 finger bubbles in place.
It makes for a very sturdy and solid structure and maybe would make a good frisbee.
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#25
Carry on and do the same with the other side of the heart, you are just mirroring each side. I have done the other side differently in that I made two 4 finger bubbles and then the two
3 finger twists just to show there is a plan A and Plan B but they do come out the same. Once this is done you then need a 3 finger bubble up to the next petal on the top flower.
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#26
With the same side twist a 4 finger bubble up to the longest petal on the top flower and repeat on the other side of the heart. You then need another 4 finger bubble down from the long petal onto the next pinch twist of the next petal and do the same on the other side of the Heart as well. Hopefully we are all up to speed and looking a little like this in picture 24.
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#27
From this point there are a few variations on a theme and if you look at all the Hearts I have posted on Balloon Chat there probably are 4/5 different ways to finish the heart.
I will explain the last way I made it after Millie was having a problem, twist a 2 finger bubble and then a 1 finger pinch twist in both balloons and twist the pinch twists together.
You then need to twist another 2 finger bubble and twist this around where you connected both floweres together with the two pinch twists.
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#28
Then with the Goldenrod balloon twist another 2 finger bubble back to the two pinch twists at the top of the heart which are Pink and Goldenrod in the instructions.
Do the same with the other side of the Heart and the Pink balloon. Adjust all the bubbles and if you have made this then please post a picture, please!
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#29
This is the Heart when made out of all the same colours, the top of the heart I have put a double row in the top
section and a triple row in from the centre pinch twist to where the flowers join together at the two pinch twists.
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