Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Snowflake Curtain

All my paper snowflakes were made from folding circles of white paper (cut using an assortment of plates, saucers and cups as templates) and snipping away – you can find lots of tutorials on the internet if you’ve not made them before. They were sewn together in strands like these oak leaf garlands - just use an ordinary sewing needle and thread and sew several stitches per snowflake. Try and vary the sizes of snowflakes you use to get a “random” look – and I’d recommend hanging up each strand before starting the next one so you can see how they look and build up your display gradually:

I tied them onto the curtain rail hooks so I can move them carefully along the rail for different effects – they look very cool all bunched together – but you could secure them to a rail or piece of string, or use pins or blutack to keep them in place in your window. A few strands hung together would also make a fantastic mobile!

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Origami Snowflake - Tutorial

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Recommended paper size: Hexagon with a side length of 10cm (approx. 4in)
Resulting model: Hexagon with a side length of 5cm (approx. 2in)
This video describes how to fold the origami snowflake designed by Dennis Walker.

 Dennis' website: http://www.origamidennis.co.uk/

More origami: http://www.happyfolding.com

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 Recommended paper: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016P2ERA?ie=UTF8&tag=happyfoldienj-20&...
http://www.pacon.com/arts_crafts/arts_crafts/arttape_oragami_sticks.php

Paper used in this video: 24cm square of kami (9.5in)
Finished model: height of 2cm (0.75in), diameter of 7.5cm (3in)

This video describes how to fold a snowflake designed by Jared Needle. Jared kindly gave me permission to make this video accessible to you.

Jared's flickr album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oriholic/
Origami Weekly: http://origamiweekly.blogspot.com/
Diagrams: http://origamiweekly.blogspot.com/2009/01/snowflake-and-rabbit.html

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Make your own cardboard corrugate

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