Months’ Themes: (Blue texts are links)
- Months at a Glance.
- Origamigos & Origami Spirit Tutorials (Click for tutorials: Sugar Skull, Two-Unit Pine Tree, Jolly Belly Santa, Patagonia Star, Colorful Lights, Secret Santa Envelopes)
- Inspiring Children’s Creativity
- Origami Visual Storytelling
- Exquisite Folding
- Origami Spirit Challenges • Prompt Topics: Air and Winter.
- Advent Challenges: 1. Tessellations • 2. Petit Comité (Argentina)
- Creative Interpretation of a Minimalistic Model: Two-Fold Santa
- Inspiring Christmas Trees: Three-dimensional and Flat
- Crane Corner: Flight of Folds (Kevin Fox and Robert Lang)
- New Origami Book: “Any Time is Perfect for Origami” by Yossi Nir
The ORIGAMIGOS CHOICE RIBBON is awarded to members whose work shows unique creativity and playfulness using origami, sharing origami, or creating new models.
Origamigos Choice Ribbon Award recipients this month:
Yossi Nir (Prolific Origami Designer) • Check the video minute mark 21:30
Linda MacFarlane (Creative Origami Teacher) • Check the video minute mark 22:07
In addition to our Highlights of the Month session, which is recorded, we turn off the camera, relax and share anything related to paper folding, such as origami figures that you have folded or we have received, current projects, questions, book titles, and any other resource or creative idea that we might have tried recently.
Links of Interest mentioned in this meeting
- Community for Creators Origami Challenge: The Eight-Grid Multi-Form Shared by Cliff Landesman. This crease pattern is a great starting point for many models that are easy to fold, and hence easy to teach.
Froebel Star (Tutorial by Jo Nakashima) Shared by Linda MacFarlane: “I’ve been folding these traditional stars for most of my life. I’ve known the star my these names: Scandinavian Star and Moravian Star. The paper was purchased through a Scandinavian store (Link HERE).
Books Mentioned in this Meeting
The Breath Between the Folds* (By Monica Gao) Shared by David Pacheco. Beautiful and life-like interpretations of origami creatures designed by different authors.
Anytime is Perfect for Origami* (By Yossi Nir) Yossi shared his recent publication, featuring over 35 origami models designed by himself.
*Links to Amazon or Origami Shop are affiliates.
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