…compilation of tutorials
Hmpf, they are kitschy – but I find both Panda brothers cute, anyhow ;-))
And you can find a tutorial, too.
But this is not for me, I haven’t even finished the paper folded bracelet ;-)
Links:
Origami Panda (Brothers)
Tutorial for the Origami Pandas (Panda Tutorial WIP)
Here at unikatissima:
Paper folded bracelet
Entries with the tag ‘Origami’
Entries with the tag ‘paper folding’
A dear friend sent me the link to an Origami instruction for a photo frame.
I’ve seen several before which didn’t really impressed me, but of course I took a look at the tutorial:
I’m amazed!
My friend wrote that you can put a postcard or a 10 x 15 cm photo in a frame made of a A4 paper sheet and that a 7 x 10 cm photo fits in a frame made from a A5 paper sheet.
I find best of all that you adjust the size of your photo frame exactly to your photo in one of the last steps and this way you can even make it fit a not-so-exacltly-cut 10 x 15 cm photo.
What is more the frame is easy to fold.
What more could you ask for? ;-)
Here I show the back of the frame.
When folding you create an (amazingly stiff) triangle that serves as frame stand.
Here you can (hopefully) see that the photo frame can only stand if the picture is in landscape format, a portrait formatted picture has to be hung at the wall or put into a photoholder.
First I thought about making the frame from patterned paper but then I found it a little bit silly because you can only see the four corners on the front side.
Links:
Origami Photo Frame (Picture Frame)
Here at unikatissima:
Plaster Photo Holder
more entries with the tag ‘photoholder’
A cute tealight again: the Fortune boat lamp.
I don’t have the right paper yet, but I will make it for a beautiful summer evening on our balcony :)
Links:
Fortune Boat Lamp
based on the Fortune Boats
Well, origami is wonderful, but I find some of the most fascinating items those with curved creases.
I tried a first, beautiful example – and as you can see on the picture I have to practice a lot.
But why not? ;-)
Links:
At The Institute For Figuring: Curved Crease Origami – You can find two PDF files there at the end
Here at unikatissima:
Other entries with links to The Institute For Figuring:
TED Talk: Nature, Crochet and Geometry
Beaded Hyperbolic Planes
I like to fold Origami boxes but these are even better: you can stack them.
Once I folded them and used them for little beads but by now I have thrown them away.
Actually it’s a pity.
Links:
Mike’s Origami – Origami Diagram Links – Boxes and Containers => click ‘Tower Boxes’ (PDF, ca. 82 KB)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘box’
Entries with the tag ‘origami’
Folded boxes:
Paper Matchbox Slide Box
Curved Box not only for an Advent Calendar
Recently something took me and I thought that you can use those two-coloured charts which are usually associated with filet crochet or cross stitch for a loooot of other techniques, too.
I had this idea already before, in my entries about intarsia knitting, the cross stitch heart, the beaded square stitch heart and the polymer clay letter cane.
On the photo you see some letters worked in different techniques (I’m working on letter charts at the moment ;-)):
'u' - Knit-Purl Knitting, each X is a purl stitch
'n' - Fair Isle Knitting, each X is a white stitch
'i' - Sequins Embroidery, each X is a sequin
'k' - Tapestry Crochet, each X is a white stitch
'a' - Filet Crochet, each X is a filled filet crochet square
't' - Cross Stitch Embroidery on paper, each X is a black cross stitch
'i' - Loom Beading, each X is a black bead
's' - Stamping with square stamps, each X is a black square stamp
's' - Illusion Knitting, each X is a black stitch over two rows
'i' - Crochet Yoyo’s, each X is a white crochet circle from dc’s
'm' - Inverted Filet Crochet, each X is a empty filet crochet square
'a' - Macramée/Friendship Bracelet, each X is a white knot
But then I came up with more techniques and if you still have more ideas I’d be glad if you wrote a comment about.
I added for every technique what would be a square of the chart.
Please remember: Not all ‘units’ are square so that the result can look quite different from the chart!
Knitting
Crochet
Beading
Embroidery
Knotting
Weaving
Sewing
Other
By the way I found an blog entry of an embroiderer who thought about the same subject and has more ideas.
Links:
Double Knitting
Picture for sequin embroidery (scroll down to about the middle)
Description of French Knot
Heather’s Friendship Bracelets – Alphabet Patterns
Geometric stitching
Google image search result for ‘yoyo blanket’
Google image search result for ‘ministeck’
Here at unikatissima:
Celtic Cross Stitch Generator
Heart Template (at Beaded Square Stitch Heart)
Patchwork Knitting
Bead Knitting
Illusion knit
Tapestry Crochet
Beautiful Filet Crochet Patterns
Loom Woven Bead Bracelet
Beaded Square Stitch Heart
Bead Knitting
Freeform Bead Embroidery
Bead embroidered Paisleys
Friendship Bracelet
Crazy Daisies
Crazy Daisies II
Mosaic Table Light (Glass Paint)
Polymer Clay Letter Cane
Mosaic from Plaster
Eraser Stamps
Recently a friend had the idea to make some Origami with fabric but the fabric didn’t fold properly.
Some research showed that there are more people who do this and that they simply stiffen the fabric with starch or fabric stiffener.
And then (it seems!) that you can simply start folding… :)
By the way there seem even to be two groups: those who incorporate their Origami fabric in their quilts and those who fold other things like wallets.
Unfortunately I don’t have much fabric (because of the design) that I could use for Origami folding and I won’t surely begin to build up a fabric stash here, but somehow…
;-)
Links:
At instructables: Fabric Origami Quilt Block
At Origami Resource Center: Fabric folding – scroll down to about the center until ‘Fabric Origami Quilts’ and ‘Fabric Origami’
Fabric Origami – under ‘Technique’ you can find more ideas about what to do with ‘solid fabric’: stamping, maschine embroidery, lamination etc.
I always like to surf the net a little bit for ‘Origami’ and today I want to present two extremes: Instant Origami and the video Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection.
I had a lot of fun with the first (there is a frog, a dragon, a box and much more ;-)), the latter left me speechless, although it’s ‘only’ an advertising movie.
Let yourself inspire!
Links:
Instant Origami
Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection
Report on the making of ‘Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection’ (German): the link isn’t available no more.
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘Origami’
If you’re folding origami figures they often come undone, are collapsing or sagging.
That’s especially vexing if they were meant to be a holiday decoration.
But now I found a very good solution to avoid sagging origami figures: fold the origami figures from fusible interfacing.
I must say that I find the photos of the tutorial persuasive.
Something more to try one day ;-))
(P.S.: On the photo you can see my iron for a start, I still have to purchase fusible interfacing ;-))
Links:
Paperless Origami
Once I browsed flickr and found the Teabag Problem Box. He called it this way because some teas are packed in such boxes.
But what I liked best is the the fact that he ‘offers’ the creasing pattern directly (see links below).
On the photo you can see my first try. I burned some CD’s and used the paper where you write what’s on the CD and that I usually throw away for this box.
I think it’s not too bad for a first try ;-)
They can easily be used for an advent calendar.
I looked further for boxes usable for advent calendars and found the following:
Links:
At flickr: Teabag Problem Box
At The Fitful Flog: PDF file with the creasing pattern (ca. 10 KB)
Check also the Model Menu
More boxes that can be used in advent calendars:
And here at unikatissima:
Furthermore there are links on how to decorate in the entry Pattern Paper.
And what can you put into the boxes?
Here at unikatissima:
This week I will present more possible fillings.
