This Christmas has been a very busy time for me. I had participated in a couple of Christmas sales and have been busy making paper jewelry! And paper jewelry is time-consuming work! So I didn’t get a lot of time to make anything special for Christmas 2014. One thing that I did try was this modular star. The star is actually made from Bascetta Star modules. The star requires a total of 24 modules. The [Continued..]
With Christmas just round the corner, there is no better time to fold Santas, is there? I tried this Santa because of how natural he looks. I think all that this Santa is missing, is his big sack of toys! The model has been adapted by Steve and Megumi Biddle, from the original one created by Steve Casey, and can be found in the book ’Essential Origami‘. This book is a good place to start for beginners [Continued..]
After completing the Braided Ring a few days back, I was experimenting with folding another ring and ended up with this modular ring. It is made from 15 modules and is pretty easy to fold. I am working on a tutorial for folding this ring. And with Christmas coming up, I have been quite busy making quite a few ornaments. We had the first Christmas gathering yesterday, and I had made 100 ornaments to be giving [Continued..]
Yet another design by Martin Sejer Andersen that I recently folded This was initially named ‘The Unnamed Ring’! and has recently been christened the Braided Ring. The ring is made from 14 modules. The modules start off with folding into fifths. So a template comes in handy. I quite like the little bits of colour (white in my case) that can be seen at the edges and at the centre of the ring. Btw, the [Continued..]
I recently ordered a lot of origami paper from Kim’s Crane and am now thrilled with my supply of beautiful origami paper And since I had so much of variety, I decided to start off making Christmas decorations from them. And, I think the most common origami decoration for Christmas must be the Sonobe! So here are a whole lot of origami sonobes made in a variety of colours and patterns, all set for Christmas. [Continued..]