The Multi Points Star, by Ilan Garibi, is a great addition to my origami collection this Christmas. The stars are modular, easy to make and can be used to make stars with as many points as required, starting with 6 points. I...
After a whole lot of Christmas crafts and tutorials, here is another beautiful modular star, created by Christine Blasek. There are about 3 variations to this star and all of them look great! The model has 8 units in all and...
While origami kusudamas and other modular oriami pieces are great decorations for Christmas, one must admit that they are not the simplest of decorations to work on. They are usually time consuming and, in my case, unless I start...
The Ari Jigoku or Ant Lion’s Nest is a modular origami, designed by Silvana Betti Mamino. The units are made from rectangles in the ratio 1:2. A total of 30 units are required. The curls should be completed before the assembly....
Roman Diaz's book "Origami Essence" is a very cool book with a number of origami animals and birds. The first of them is this panda, an easy, geometrical version. The diagram is easy to follow. The suggested paper size is 15-20...
Recently I tried the origami barracuda from John Montroll and Robert Lang's book 'Origami Under the Sea'. The model is designed by John Montroll and is a complex one to fold. I started with a large square of paper, 14 inches...
The Origami 4-star box is one of the very few models that I was able to fold from the Origami Tanteidan Vol 17. I was actually quite delighted to find that I could actually fold one of the models, given the complexity of the origami! The...
I found Roman Diaz's house a unique design to fold and enjoyed folding it! The design is such that the height and width of the house can be changed, so I guess it is possible to make houses in an ascending order of size! Instructions...
After trying Yuri Shumakov's vase yesterday, I decided to try out the next vase - or rather, box - by Katrin Shumakov. The Bonsai Box is a popular origami box, designed by Katrin Shumakov. As boxes go, this is a complex...
Yuri Shumakov's origami vase is folded from a single sheet of paper and has a very realistic look to it. A good amount of pre-creasing is required before the vase is folded into shape. Though it is challenging, it a good origami...
This modular wreath is a great project for beginner origamist who are just starting off with modular origami. It is a traditional design and quite simple. I love how eye-catching the end result is! I had placed this at my desk...
The TUVWXYZ star is a complex modular planar model, designed by the amazing Meenakshi Mukerji. The model consists of 7 intersecting stars, each star made of 6 arms. All the stars meet at the centre of the model. A total of 42...
Robin Glynn's 6-sided star box turned out to be quite interesting! I rather liked the way the 2D module is turned into a 3D piece. The modules link well together. The lock for the base is slightly difficult to do, but it ensures...
I have previously made triangular boxes from 3 modules and wanted to try out one from a single sheet of paper. And found out Thoki Yenn's triangular box, where both the box and the lid are made from a single sheet of A4 size...
I like making boxes from single sheets of paper. For one thing, they are quite economical and for another, you can just grab a piece of paper and start working on the box! This pentagonal box is designed by Rikki Donachie and...
Butterfly earrings are not very easy to make, but the earrings that result from them are quite beautiful. Well, what else would you expect from a butterfly? :) I liked the green earrings that I made. I had included green butterfly...
I hadn't come across any 5-sided modular boxes until recently. Modular pentagonal boxes are not very common and one of the first pentagonal box I came across was Dennis Walker's Cherry Blossom Box. A very pretty box to...
This spider from Eric Keneeway's book 'Complete Origami' is a fairly easy origami to do. But a little bit of kirigami also comes into play, so origami purists would not be keen on folding this little guy, I suppose. The origami...
The Knob Box lid, designed by Jorge E Jaramillo, is one that I had tried some time back and hadn’t quite succeeded. I gave it another go and this time I did complete it :) The most difficult part of the lid was twisting it into...
Tomoko Fuse's boxes are really simple to make and I love making them! So here goes another of her boxes from her book 'Quick and Easy Origami Boxes'. I rather like the little knob on the lid. Adds a little something and gives...
A heptagon or septagon is a 7-sided polygon and this box contains 7 sides. The design is again, by Tomoko Fuse, from her book ‘Joyful Origami Boxes‘. The folding is somewhat similar to the hexagon box I had folded earlier. The...
The hexagon pinwheel box is a design by Tomoko Fuse, from her book 'Joyful Origami Boxes'. It is made from 6 squares of paper and joined without glue. The lid looks best when folded with duo coloured paper. But I think it looks...
The Pandora's box, so named because it causes some misery attempting to open the box, is designed by Yami Yamauchi. Though it looks like there is an opening in the middle of the box (see the straight line going around the middle),...
Trialling out a bunch of paper earrings, made from Japanese washi paper. I still have ways to go, but I think I have made a good start. I used predominantly green paper for this set. The biggest problem with making...
Paper hearts are really great to make! They are simple and however badly you end up making them, they still turn out great :) So ended up making these heart earrings. I love how the colours pop in the gold and orange earrings....
I like most of the origami designed by Carmen Sprung and here is another of her designs. This one is called √3 Schachtel (Google gives the translation as box or case). √3 because of the paper ratio which is x:√3x. I think this...
Valentine rings are quite popular during this season and here is one that is pretty easy to make. The ring is designed by Hiroshi Kumasaka. It is made from a square. In order to make a ring that fits you well, add 2 cms to the...
With Valentine's Day just round the corner, I found this interesting table card, complete with a little heart at the top. The table card is made from 2 pieces - a base and the heart. It was a little challenging to fold, but I...
Most origami boxes are modular pieces and to get a box this size, you would need really small modular units, which could turn out to be tedious to make. But this box is just perfect in size! One thing that I would suggest...
The Four Leaves Tato is designed by Christiane Bettens, better known in the origami world as Mélisande. The paper should be at least a 7 inch square to give a usable tato. The first I had done was using regular copy paper. The...
A Tato is a Japanese flat container and Tatogami is one of the oldest form of paper folding. Tatos can hold small flat objects like needles and buttons and postage stamps. Traditional tatos are easy to make, so instead of making...
The Decoration Box is from the book 'Modular Origami Polyhedra' and is designed by Lewis Simon. The cube is made from 12 modules. Variations made from half a square and from dollar bills are also found in the book. Of all the...
The Origami Pinwheel Cube is designed by Tomoko Fuse and is found in her book 'Multidimentional Transformations Unit Origami'. The cube is formed from just 6 units, so as compared to the other cubes that I have done in recent...
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