I have been trying out more of the star earrings.. Those are the easiest earrings to make I think and I love making these tiny little stars! :)
I have been trying out more of the star earrings.. Those are the easiest earrings to make I think and I love making these tiny little stars! :)
When we were kids, we used to make these bracelets and use them as Friendship bracelets. Unfortunately we didn't have access to colourful paper, so we used to make do with paper torn out of our notebooks (very naughty I know!), or paper from comic digests or magazines that we managed to get hold of.
So anyway, after many, many years, now my daughter wanted me to make something for her friends. There are 3 of them in her gang and these 3 are very close, even though they are all of 4 years old! So when she wanted me to make something for her friends, I thought of these bracelets :) I needed to really wrack my brains to get going, I had more or less forgotten how to make them! But I finally managed to do that. And made some really colourful bracelets for her friends, in their favourite colours too!! I am not their favourite mom-of-friend! :D
Since I needed to put in a lot of effort to recollect the instructions for making the bracelet, I figured it made sense to make a tutorial, so that later on if my daughter wanted to make them, she could give it a go. So, stick around.. A tutorial coming your way soon!! :) And my first too..
Model Details:
Model: Paper Bracelets
Origin: Traditional
Difficulty Level: Low Intermediate
A traditional origami tried out by many is the frog. It is made from, surprise, surprise, the frog base! And as with most traditional designs, there are numerous sites with instructions on the net on how to make it.
Frogs are best tried out with thin origami paper, since there is a lot of folding involved and a thicker paper will not hold these folds. Try them out with a green paper to make your frogs more realistic :)
Model Details:
Model: Frog
Origin: Traditional
Difficulty Level: Low Intermediate
Paper Ratio: Square
Paper Size: 6 inches
Tutorial: Youtube
An origami hyperbolic parabola, called be various other names such as saddle and hypar, is made by pleating a square of paper along the diagonals. Plenty of pleats will give a parabola looks really intricate and delicate.
It is also possible to form modular units from the parabola. This is done by gluing individual units to form various shapes. Such modular, closed models are called Hyparhedra. Another such model can be formed by gluing 60 hypars together. This forms a dodecahedron structure, with 12 pentagonal faces.
The creator of this model is not known but John Emmet is considered to be the rediscoverer of this model.
Model Details:
Model: Hyperbolic Parabola
Creator: John Emmet
Book: The Complete Origami Course
Author: Paul Jackson
Difficulty Level: Low Intermediate
Paper Ratio: Square
Paper Size: 8 inches
Tomoko Fuse's 'Home Decorating with Origami' was my choice of book for the day. I tried out the Hana. As described in the book, this is an abstract flower made from a square of paper.
The pleating is similar to the Balalaika and the thinner the pleats, the better it looks. She suggests that you start with a 6*6 inch square and that is what I did. She also suggests that it is possible to make the Hana with 5, 6 and 8 sides.
Model Details:
Model: Hana
Creator: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Home Decorating with Origami
Author: Tomoko Fuse
Paper Ratio: Square
Paper Size: 6 inches
A very simple modular origami is the fluted diamond by Molly Kahn. In addition to being simple to make, they can also be used in many places. They make beautiful decorations, make them small enough and you can turn them into earrings or pendants or even bracelets or maybe mobiles.
These are made from 2 squares of paper, from the square base. The units have pockets and flaps and are assembled using those. This can be a bit tricky at first.
Model Details:
Model: Fluted Diamond
Creator: Molly Kahn
Difficulty Level: Simple
Paper Ratio: Square
Paper Size: 4 inches
Modules: 2
Instructions: Origami Resource Center
The origami lily is a popular traditional origami. It is easy enough to be tried by a beginner. Placing one lily inside another gives an appearance of a whole lot of petals.
And there are so many different things that you can do with the lily. These look good as single flowers; if a stalk and leaves are added and a bunch of lilies are gathered together, they would look lovely in a flower vase; It is also possible to form a lily kusudama.
Model Details:
Model: Lily
Origin: Traditional
Difficulty Level: Simple
Paper Ratio: Square
Paper Size: 4 inches
Instructions: Origami Instructions
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