An Origami A Day: Origami Quilt

 

source: http://www.origami-resource-center.com

Quilting can refer either to the process of creating a quilt or to the sewing of two or more layers of material together to make a thicker padded material. "Quilting" as the process of creating a quilt uses "quilting" as the joining of layers as one of its steps, often along with designing, piecing, appliqué, binding and other steps.

Origami quilts is a relatively new branch of origami. Here, paper is folded into units and many units join to form beautiful, planar mosaics. These can then be displayed on a tabletop or hung up against a wall.

Origami quilts may be considered a subset of modular origami.

An Origami A Day: Lantern made from red packet

Did you able to make the fish from my previous post? Hope you did it and isn't it beautiful?

Today we can do a little lantern and it is in flowers form. It need a lot of time to put them together but hey you can do it with your siblings, kids and even grand parent because it is not too difficult. You just need 30 red packet, stapler, strings and may be some decoration.

The instructions:

Fun isn't it? Hope you can fold and put them together.

Happy folding.

izw

An Origami A Day: Fish from Red Packet

How to make a fish out of ang pow, a red packet in Chinese used to fill money. However there are art that being produce by this angpow to make fish, lantern, pineapple by folding the red packet.

Here is a simple fish by using one red packet.:

Happy folding and good luck. :-)

izw

An Origami A Day: My Origami Elephant

Encounter my little origami blue elephant:

Like an elephant charging to you.

Close up.

Side view, not a vey good view.

Rear view. Look at my little tail. Cannot wiggle it :-(

Truely an elegance elephant.

Try to fold it here.

Happy folding.

izw

An Origami A Day: Origami Little Elephant

A cute and elegance origami elephant to fold.

A bit difficult, but if I can fold it. you can fold it too.

Wanna see my origami elegance elephant.

Wait for my next post.

Happy folding.

izw.

An Origami A Day: Food Origami

Paper being folded into many kind of things including food. Try to fold some of these food origami. Kawaii...

Origami Chocolate Bar:


Origami Waffle:

Origami milk carton:

Very cute. Hehehe. Happy folding.

izw

An Origami A Day: How to fold a plastic bag into a triangle

Paper is not the only material that we can fold. Today we are going to learn how to fold a plastic bag. It is a great and fun way to organize plastic bags when they are folded as we can sort it by size.

Easy right? Happy folding and organizing your plastic bags. Please reuse the plastic bag and reduce the usage of it to conserve our planet.

izw

An Origami A Day: Newspaper Origami Garbage Bin

You have piles of newspapers? Don't have any idea on how to use it? Do not throw them as a garbage as you can fold it into a garbage bin.

picture source: origami-club.com

Pop Up: Gift problem, try this.

Having a hard time looking for a present or a card. Try to do this simple but a very eyecatching card. It is simple to make and you can give it to anyone you like.



Happy folding
izw

An Origami A Day: Origami Tomato Box.

Wow a cute box. Also being called persimmon box. Thank you Leyla Torres for this lovely picture on her website: OrigamiSpirit.com

Video instructions:

Happy folding.

izw

An Origami A Day: Flower Tower

picture source: www.shadowfolds.com

Want to try a difficult origami, try to fold this Flower Tower design by Chris K Palmer.

youtube video:

Wish you luck in folding it.

izw

An Origami A Day: Simple Masu Box

picture source: http://craftyjournal.com

"Masu" in Japanese mean measurement and if it translate directly masu box mean measurement box. It was originally a square wooden box used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.

An Origami A Day: Origami Ball / Wordless Wednesday

An Origami A Day: Origami Shirt

 

An origami shirt is a popular origami fold during father's day and easy to make. It can be paste in front of a card or can be a gift tag. U can fold it by using money such as RM 1 (paper note) and it will turn out very pretty but do not try to fold it with a polymer note as it may not fold properly.

An Origami A Day: Origami Lucky Heart

picture source: origami-resource-center.com

This paper heart is called a Lucky Heart because it is made in the same way the Origami Lucky Stars are made. Perhaps a name of Puff Heart or Puffy Heart might be appropriate since this heart is puffy and not flat. Model uses one strip of paper and requires cutting. 

An Origami A Day: Origami Lucky Stars

 

Origami Stars: pictures credit: www.KatherinaKrafts.etsy.com

I am sure you have seen this stars as decorations in many places such as shops or showrooms. It is a fun  and easy papercraft to make and can be decorated in many ways. You can put it in a jar, hang it as mobile or tie them together to make a colourful bracelet or an elegance necklace. update 6.11.2013: it also called origami lucky star as you give it as a gift to wish luck to someone.

An Origami A Day: Origami Cat

 

picture source: origamimaniacs.blogspot.jp

Learn how to make this adorable origami cat designed by Richard Wang, it is not a simple model so i label it as intermediate. The dimension of paper is 12 x 8, which mean you must measure & cut a 12 cm x 8 cm paper.

An Origami A Day: Easy Origami Heart

 Picture source: origami-instructions.com

This easy origami heart is perfect for everything, a gift to your love one, paste in on a card or even a gift tag. It's very simple to make and perfect for everyone. Make one or make 10 and give them to your lover!

An Origami A Day: Origami Butterfly

An elegance origami butterfly 3D Butterfly. It's like a real butterfly.

Do enjoy folding it with this diagram:

An Origami A Day: Origami Tulip

Paper can be folded into various type of objects and mostly folded into a small animals figurine, flowers and insects 

For a beginner, it is advisable that we start with simple model, yesterday we start with a simple animal origami which is crane or bird as some people refer it. It is a fun model where we can hang it as mobile, paste it on the wall and make a card out of it.

Today we will teach you on how to fold a simple but an elegance flower, Tulip. Tulips is a spring-blooming perennials flowers that grow from bulbs. Tulips are often associated with the Netherlands, they thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Although perennials, tulip bulbs are often imported to warm-winter areas of the world from cold-winter areas, and are planted in the fall to be treated as annuals.

(Info source: wikipedia)

image source: http://shellartistree.blogspot.com

It is a colourful flower and you can fold it in bright colour such as red, purple, pink and using pattern paper or just a plain white paper. You can fold as many as you can fold and put it on an origami stem or skewer, make a bouquet of flower as a gift to someone and as a decoration on a gift. Here is a video on how to fold a tulip and the stem.

And diagrams:

image source: http://origami.island-three.net

Hope you like it. Happy folding.

<3 izw :-)