Hi everyone. Happy New Year. I hope you had a really great Christmas and I hope
you're having a fabulous New Year's Day just lately I've been getting a lot of
requests from children wanting umbrellas or the Mary Poppins movie has just come
out the new one and it's huge who sparked a bit of a craze for umbrellas
so I'm going to show you now what I'd be making for my customers you're going to
need three two sixties fully inflated and then just let out a little bit of
air and you want to make sure that your balloons are is the same length or as
close as possible if they're not just give a little stretch to try and get
them to be the same length and I've also tied a soft knot which means that I
haven't pulled that not really tightly and if I just pull on the knot I'll be
able to roll it and give myself a little extra length in the balloon now we want
to fold our balloons in half and find the center point and then just twist at
that point platting just to make sure they don't come undone okay so this is
what you've got then we want to twist off a bubble that is about a foot in
length about twelve inches and then make a pinch twist off a couple of fingers
and then move on to the next balloon and make a bubble that matches this one and
we're going to be repeating this all the way around the balloon and take your
next balloon and make sure that you're always measuring against your original
bubble that way if there's any slight discrepancy we're not going to be
compounding that by measuring against the wrong bubble
So just carry on working your way around putting a
pinch-twist into all of those so this is what you've
got then you want to twist off a bubble that's about 6 inches or so and wrap
this into one of those
and just work your way around if you've got some extra bit of balloon like I
have just cut off the end tie off and turn that into a pinch twist just to
tidy up design I tend to have my pinch twist just one on this inside
kind of underneath and I'm going to do the same so this is what you've
got at the moment next I'm using silver chrome 260 which is fully inflated and
again I've got a soft knot. At the tip end you want to twist off a bubble
that's about 5 fingers or so and then wrap that into the apex of the
umbrella
and then at a point that is level with the brim of the umbrella you just want to
pinch off a bubble and then make three two to three finger pinch twist
okay so this is what you've got at the moment
next take your silver 160 and take the
nozzle and just wrap that into the pinch twist.
... and with your Chrome balloon coming out of the
centre just measure across to the middle and then twist off a bubble and then you
want to make another bubble that matches ... then
wrap that first bubble into the centre
and take that second bubble out to the opposite side and then you can break
that off and you should have enough left
of the 160 to create another set of spokes. I'm going to do the same process
again. And that's what we've got at the moment so
next take a yellow 160 and make two bubbles of about three fingers and then
bring those two together wrap them together to pinch twist and then I'm going to
make another three-finger bubble that I'm going to pinch twist break off the rest
and tie and save this bit and then take your three pinch twists and just
position at the centre at the end of your umbrella and you could leave it at
that. But there are few other things that we
can do so take a white 260 with a good long tail give it a squeeze and I'm
going to make three three finger loop twists and just break that off and tie
save the rest for the next one and make five more of these and we're just going
to take a little flower I'm going to wrap it around each of these little
bubbles here so just pick one pick whichever is the nicest or the softest
or the roundest. And we can do little bit more so take your 160 and
just wrap the nozzle into here.
We're just wrapping around so then you have your completed umbrella the kids go
crazy for this they really do love it they kind of get into a competition as
to who can have the most bows and ribbons and goodness knows what on their
umbrella and they get a lot of fun with it and that's kind of how this design
came about and it started off with someone asking for a sort of Mary
Poppins style umbrella and the kids just wanted to have more and more stuff put
on their own umbrellas as they personalised them and it all got a bit
crazy and lots of fun. The great thing about it is it's perfect for those kids
that just want more and more and more stuff. You've got your actual balloon
animal here and as time goes on throughout the course of
the party you can just add the extra bits. So this is what I tend to make for
them to begin with and then to the next child the next child and then the child
can go to the back of the queue and wait for their embellishments or wait until
you know things have quietened down a little bit and they can have their flowers and
spiral candy canes put on. They're always coming up with new
things to put on this design and it's one that I'm having a lot of fun
with at the moment and I really hope you will too. So I hope you like this design.
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