chiyogami...

It is a well established fact that I am a paper/ephemera junkie. I can't help myself. I come by it naturally. My mother is a paper junkie too. She does far more interesting things with her collection of paper.

My mom is also very adept at origami folding. Origami is something I have NEVER found the patience to conquer. I am mesmerized by the elegant creatures and objects that are created from a flat piece of paper. I love the patterns and colors that chiyogami paper offers. I buy origami and chiyogami paper all the time. When I attempt to start folding, the instructions usually just make me cross-eyed so I quit. I have relinquished myself to the fact that folding is probably just not for me. I say 'probably' because I still want to try my hand at quiltagami. The end product of the quiltagami process is really just beautiful. I bought Beautiful Quiltagami : New Ideas for Fabric Folding for my mom as a birthday gift. I must have flipped through that book a thousand times before I gave it to her. The images are gorgeous. The fabrics the author used to make the projects are fabulous. The instructions seemed simple enough. I just never got around to trying one of the projects before I gifted the book. I was wandering around Amazon tonight and found a couple more quiltagami/omiyage books that look really interesting. You can find them here, here and here. But really, the whole point of this post was to point you in the direction of a link I stumbled on that is just jammed with CUTE chiyogami paper prints that you can print with your desktop printer!

http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-papercraft/origami/getto_e.html


http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-papercraft/origami/moji_e.html


http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-papercraft/origami/santa_e.html

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09/09 Just found this site: fabricorigami.com. You'll find patterns for fabric stars, bookmarkers, twinkle light covers (very cool), napkin folds, etc.