The balloon is built around an 11" white round
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hi lowe, awesome donald duck, would it be too much to ask you for instructions for him or and any other cute cartoon  like this

Thanks

Best Regards

You inflate an 11" white with a raisin twist to attach the neck and head with.
The lower part of the body uses 6 white 260's similar to weaving a basket.
The upper body uses 6 blue 260's woven in usual way, and following the curve of the 11" white.
Make a normal duck's head.
The hat is a 9" round with 2 uninflated blue 260's (add a puff of air to each) and marriage twisted to a blue 350.
Keep the legs short or it looks out of proportion.

Er....whats a 'marriage twist'?  :?

A marriage twist is similar to a tulip or apple twist. You put a knot in the end of a balloon with an inch or so between the knot and the main part of the balloon. Put the knot on top of the knot in a second balloon, and make an apple twist. This joins or "marries" the two balloons together.
You can use this to connect a nose of an animal to its muzzle. In this way you add a second colour. For instance, make a small bubble in the end of a black balloon. Tie a knot. Deflate the rest of the balloon. Tie a second knot 2" after the first one, then discard the remainder. Marriage twist this bubble to, say, a pink balloon. Make two small bubbles in the yellow balloon. Make a knot and discard the rest, keeping a couple of inches of uninflated balloon after the knot.
Now, make a teddy bear head in an orange balloon, and wrap the end of the pink balloon around the neck of the teddy. Push the black nose and the pink marriage twist through the head (you'll have to undo one of the ear twists in the teddy's head. Then re twist the ear twist). Then complete the teddy bear's body.
You end up with the usual teddy bear but, instead of it all being one colour, you have a black nose, a pink muzzle and an orange body.

What is a raisin twist?

Henry

A raisin twist is when you put a scrap of uninflated balloon inside a balloon that you will inflate & you get hold of the scrap throuh the wall of the inflated balloon to use as an anchor point as in the fin on Thelma's yellow fish that she has posted;

http://www.balloonchat.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=651

Perhaps we should have a section with all the terminology of twisting written down, any volunteers to do this

This is very nice, I hope to be able to do the same sorts of things someday howver I think I had better start with dogs and giraffes.