These crane earrings are quite easy to make and maddeningly difficult to photograph!! I assure you, I usually photograph better than this, but I didn’t have much luck with these earrings! But the good news is that the earrings can be done in, say, 10 minutes. Care should be taken to fold the cranes carefully, since they tend to tear easily because of the small size. For the first time, I used washi paper and [Continued..]
The Braided Paper, designed by J C Nolan, is a very beautiful origami to fold. It does require some practise to fold it and one that I had tried when I was just a beginner in origami and failed.. It was quite some time after that that I tried another of J C Nolan’s design, Andrea’s Rose. Now I finally had enough confidence to give Braided Paper another try. And I did it! It is [Continued..]
There are quite a number of origami butterflies that have been designed. But there are relatively few origami butterfly bookmarks. And of those few, I think the most beautiful is Grzegorz Bubniak’s bookmark. I have stagnated in my folding these days, haven’t really tried new things. So this bookmark made an interesting change. I found the steps to be more complex than what I have attempted so far. But despite that, the instructions were clear [Continued..]
These baby booties, designed by Katsushi Nosho, are easy to make and look very pretty. They would look lovely as decorations or favours for a baby shower. The booties are held together by a bow, just like real booties! I made these from 8 inch squares and they turned out to the size of a new born baby’s foot! But, don’t try it out on a baby though The booties can also be strung together [Continued..]
The XYZ Diamonds is another planar origami model, made from 3 intersecting diamonds. The design is by Francis Ow, the well known folder/creator of origami hearts. Though it looks like there are only 3 planes, joined in the middle as though by magic(!), the planar model is actually made of 6 modules. Accuracy is required in folding the modules, else fitting each unit into the next is almost impossible. The first 4 modules can be [Continued..]