01 Oct
So, I was after thinking, early one morning, that I had really ought to get back to that chrysanthemum model, being as there’s a big chysanthemum festival going on somewheres, but then I thought, it’s such a pain to make hexakaidecagons. What if I made them from squares and just folded the excess in? Hmm, […]
Posted in circle, content, crease pattern, heptagon, open source origami, sequenced crease pattern by: oschene
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03 Sep
It’s raining in New England today – the remnants of a hurricane that blew in yesterday. So, we’ll make our own sun. This one has a high wow factor – something that comes home to me on the bus, when strangers interrupt me to ask, what is that? It’s the five pointed thing – people’s […]
Posted in content, crease pattern, decagon, open source origami, sequenced crease pattern, star, twist by: oschene
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30 Jul
This is ambi-epistolary – hey-ho, there’s a nonce-word for the ages! Yes, ambi-epistolary, it can be made with equal facility out of letter paper of either persuasion, A4 or American 8½ ×11″. How’s that for thinking globally? You make two pieces and one fits into the other. Or the other way around. The male becomes […]
Posted in A4, content, crease pattern, letter paper, modular, open source origami, rectangle, sequenced crease pattern, twist, utilitarian by: oschene
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05 Mar
I’ve been doing some more complicated things – but I thought I probably ought to put out the simple version before getting all publicly jiggy with it. This one has an iris closure going to every second corner, a nice basket weave look. This is probably the easiest version of this model to learn, but […]
Posted in compass rose jar, content, creative commons, rectangle, sequenced crease pattern, square, utilitarian by: oschene
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27 Dec
A Mister Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey writes in to say, “Hey, what’s the deal with the Puff Stars? How do I fold a Puff Star? Does CP stand for something? How will I know if I have folded a Puff Star or something else? What’s a perf strip? Will folding Puff Stars […]
Posted in content, creative commons, decagon, open source origami, sequenced crease pattern by: oschene
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