Showing posts with label origami. Show all posts
Showing posts with label origami. Show all posts

Sunday, March 15, 2009

SoS #5: Squishy and a Polka-dot X-Wing

So... sorry I missed last week, and that I haven't posted any of those new projects yet, but school's been pretty busy lately.  So this week I decided to put up TWO projects!!


Squishy!
Squishy was my first crochet project EVER.  The only crocheting I'd done before him was the strap for a market-bag I made for a friend (the bag itself was knit and beaded).  Squishy generally lives sitting atop my computer monitor and actually has eight legs, though they were a bit hard to fit on.

Though I generally prefer knitting to crocheting - I still find crocheting quite awkward and slow - I have to say though, that stuff requiring shaping like small toys turn out really nice done in crochet.  I've done a few toys now and I like how they turned out :D

The only knitted toy I've done was a knitted ninja, and while I loved how it turned out, getting all the shaping done did get a little tricky, hehehe.


X-Wing
So this is an origami x-wing I folded.  It's another pattern from Joseph Wu's site, though the pattern itself is by Wayne Ko.

The pattern is actually a bit confusing in places - when I went to do it again(months later) I couldn't remember how I got it to work!  Nothing a bit of perseverance can't handle, however.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Something old Sunday #3: 'Teeny' Origami Dragon



4"x0.5" yellow origami paper
Design by Joseph Wu. Modified because I made it so small, some bits are simplified.

I made this guy in 2005 - such a long time ago now!  I figured it was around about time I posted something non-sculpey on this site... and this was the first thing that came to mind that I knew where to find a picture of.

It is Very Small.


I have this thing where I tend to make things small.  With origami, after I figure out a pattern I always end up reducing it - or for simpler patterns making it small to start with.

Not this pattern - I've littered several desks of friends, family, and coworkers with bigger versions of this guy.  People got tired of little tiny cranes everywhere... these take longer and are a bit different from what you'd normally see to boot.

Now... this is proof that apparently I *used to* know how to take a picture, if you look at the nice one above, I apparently set the dragon up with some sparkly seed beads to act as the dragon's hoard.