I had a lot of trouble with folding bits of paper into complicated patterns. My grand daughters origami book had lots of pictures but it was all written in Japanese. She could follow the pictures but I could not. I went to simpler designs and used the internet!!!
Page 1 Where do ideas come from?
I started out with a ;picture of Bird of Paradise and tried to draw it! I like the blue petals on the spikes!!!
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Pictures of a lily, Datura and a tobacco plant. Here there are turned up petals and some long stamens on the lily. I am not sure why the tobacco plant is included!!!
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Sunflowers and anemones with irregular petals.
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Twisty Wisteria pods from the garden with the seeds long gone!!!
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Some sort of bulbous plant in water!! Interesting folds of petals …. like a arum lily.
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A large beautifully decayed magnolia leaf with lots of small holes and ragged edges!!
Some curled up oak and maple leaves.
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I really like these dried up rose hips!!! They have lots of character.
These are dogwood seed heads. Very intricate designs.
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These very dry ochras was used in a project in Chapter 4 of this module.
Here is another ochra with an attached leaf!!! .
Page 9. Paper Folding!!! I noted at the beginning of the chapter that this became my nemesis. I even had trouble following some of the teabag folding from the internet. I decided to decorate the bits of paper with stamps. I have so many stamps and they very rarely get used. So I had fun. Some of the projects were stamped on one side only. I should have done both sides!!!
Take a square and draw diagonal lines from corner to corner. Fold the corners into the centre.
Take a rectangle and fold the bottom up to one third from the top. Fold down the flap. (an envelope)
Take a square and fold the paper along one diagonal from corner to corner. Fold each side piece into the center folded line. Fold down the top flap.
Page 10 Now the simple folded shapes???
An airplane. Take a rectangle and fold it in half. On the short end, fold down the two corners to meet the fold. then make two more folds on each side towards the folded half. And there you have an airplane that will fly!!!
This is the Pentagon fold. Start with square paper. Fold left to right on the diagonal and unfold. Fold left side and right side of the paper towards the centre crease to get a tapered shape. Fold the tip of the triangle up. Turn over. This is the Pentagon fold. I seemed to have created a lopsided Pentagon.
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A variation of the Pentagon fold. Instead of folding the tip of the triangle up, fold down the flap at the top of the triangle. Now fold up the tip of this triangle to from a trapezoid. This is the reverse side.
Then turn the trapezoid over. Fold the top (wider) edge down to match up with the bottom edge. The tip of the triangle will stick out below the trapezoid.
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Fold the paper in half diagonally both ways. Open up and fold each corner into the centre. Then turn the paper over and again fold each corner into the center. Take a pair of corners opposite each other and pull out and there you have the above bit of paper folding. (not very accurate foldings!!!)
This is looking down from the top!!!
Page 13 Curling Papers These were much easier to do!!!!
Paper Loop - I decided to cut the strips in curvy lines instead of straight lines.
Mobeus Loop. The paper is heavily stamped with one of Sherrill Kahn’s stamps.
Several Mobeus loops joined in a circle one after another.
Here the Mobeus loops are joined together in an irregular pattern.
Page 14 Cut and Curl
I cut the paper strips in different widths and then formed the circles in varying places along the strips.
For the next cut and curl, I should have stamped both sides.
Again the strips are at different widths, though not as much variety as I could have done. The curls are rolled to either side of the uncut strip. The first picture is taking from the side while the second picture is showing the uncut strip.
Page 15 This time there are 2 uncut strips, one at the top and one at the bottom. I stamped both sides of the paper and the results were very effective. I really like this lantern effect!!
A side view with all the strips poking outward!
A picture from the top!!
Half of the strips poking outward and the other half poking inward.
From the top.
All the strips poking inward! I should made a definite inward fold and the variation of the lantern would have been more effective!
From the top with all the strips poking inward.
Onto to Chapter 9!!!
