A friend's casual comment got me to thinking about the 365 Make Something Every Day challenge. So, origami?! A knitter/weaver/fiber person? Well, yes. Because it's so totally NOT what I usually do.
Today a wallet. It's the same principle as the Jacob's Ladder children's toys which have fascinated me forever. I used to have one on my desk -- I'm guessing it's still in that box of stuff I packed when I left my job in CT.
This pattern comes from "Origami Card Craft" by Karen Elaine Thomas (a great book -- highly recommended and not just for origami).
Included is one KIP Bags tag (check out Rudawg's Etsy shop) to show that it really does work.
Paper this time was just plain ole construction paper, two sheets of purple and one of orange. I do have plans to decorate this and perhaps add some glue to make it neater.
Sorry the video's sideways, but you can get the idea -- don't have any video editing software and not really interested in adding that to my skill bank right now.
Today I decided to fold a flock of cranes. The larger 6 are folded from 3" squares of paper. The teeny-tiny guy is folded from a 1" square of paper (that was tricky).
This is a fairly basic origami project. I followed the animated instructions from the British Origami Society.
It's a simple project that starts with a bird base and adds a couple extra slight creases to make the bird flap his wings when you pull his tail.
Just for fun today.
The bonus: a crane. This one made without a pattern, just some basic origami I've learned over the past couple of weeks, and the crane that hangs over my desk as a model.
From the book "Origami Jewelry" by Ayako Brodek, this is a little butterfly (it's sitting on my self-healing cutting mat, and each of those squares is 1", so you can see how small -- I started with a 3" square piece of paper) which I hope we can turn into a brooch (after some gluing and sealing). Perhaps if I get really confident I can make two even smaller butterflies (starting with 1.5" squares) for the matching earrings.
Just one alteration from the pattern: I knocked in the top corners of the front wings a bit. It doesn't look so harsh to me now.
I spent a bit of time this morning with my cutting mat and rotary cutter cutting 12x12 calendar pages down to 6x6 and smaller pieces.
A small collection of origami hearts (which will probably be used as bookmarks around here -- you can see how they interlock). Pattern is from Origami for the First time by Soonboke Smith.
Largest heart is made from an 8.5" square and measures approximately 4.25". Then they go down to 6" paper for a 3" heart; 4" paper for a 2" heart; and 2" paper for a 1" heart. The small one is the smallest thing I've made and good practice for some origami crane earrings I'm considering.
