Twist your brain with these paper roses!

 

For two nights in a row, we’ve been hooked (again) on origami.  We sat down in front of the computer and openned our huge collection of patterns.  The following, I got seriously hooked that I spent almost the whole day folding different patterns. 

My daughter busied her little hands making creases on the papers I gave her and would come up with either a ball (the crumpled one, that is) or just a twisted paper.  But she would call them with more decent names though.  We were having fun, laughing and making comments on the creases we made each time.

I started doing the Kawasaki Rose pattern using a paper I tore from a supermarket catalog.  I thought it would be challenging to do it as it requires lots of folding and unfolding and twisting.  It was my first time to do it so I thought it would save me a lot of origami paper if I practice on that paper.  It had lots of different colors that it was so difficult for me to see the numerous creases I made. 

Let’s make quilt origami!

 

Quilt origami is fun and exciting! Aside from cooking, this is one of the things that soothe me and exercises my brain especially if I’m following a pattern that involves a lot of imagination.  Some origami patterns, even if we’ll illustrated, still require one to have a good imagination to know how one step could lead to the next.  It’s challenging.  My husband and I enjoy doing it together and my daughter is trying too!

I made one just recently and it’s pretty challenging.  The pattern I got from the Internet was just a set of pictures so it was even more challenging.  When I started with this, I got stuck in the middle of the process because I couldn’t imagine how one step led to the next.  I folded many times in different ways I could but still no progress.  I stopped, disappointed.  But could stop for so long and so after few minutes of trying to forget about it, I started folding again.

You can fold same color of paper or different colors and weave it together.  You can put the final product on a nice frame. Try it and have fun! 

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