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(I am a HUGE fan of Beth Johnson's origami. There's always such a beautiful structure and aesthetic to her work, and her corrugations are the bomb. Take a look at her Flickr .)This is my first attempt EVER at collapsing a crease pattern and man, it was such fun! I've always been a tad scared of crease patterns, because there's no indication as to what to fold first, how things layer and slot together...but I'm starting to understand that's the part of the game and I feel like I'm only just beginning a whole new journey of discovery...
Anyways, the largest thing I've folded for a while. I LOVE this hedgehog. SO CUTE AND ROUND ^_____________^
Thank you for looking!
+ 14.7 x 18.2cm rectangle of watercolour paper; no cuts or glue
+ Final model is 12cm from tip to tail
+ Model designed by Beth Johnson, crease pattern available HERE .
+ Commissions
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It looks like the face could be used for a Hedwig...
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Hmm that's very true! The concave shape and heart-shaped head would make for a good owl.
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THAT IS AMAZING AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW YOU DID IT ! AMAZING!
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I have so much respect for you. Your work is so neat! (Neat, as in, clean. But your work is also neat, as in, awesome.)
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Wow! I've never seen concave creases like that in origami before! It's such a cute design!
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It's a gorgeous design isn't it? I LOVE Beth Johnson's models
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It is! I might have to try it sometime! (I've never tried origami before)
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I have looked at the CP several times and classified this model into the 'impossible' folder for me.
This hedgehog is near perfect and so super cute; you did an amazingly good job.
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Aww, never say never- it's actually a great deal simpler than it looks.
Thank you very much, fellow paper folder
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Tadashi Mori has a really nice youtube on "solving" CPs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRJMvM…
I have yet to try CPs.
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Hey that's great- thank you for the link, I've bookmarked it!
This was a simple CP for a "beginner" like me, it's quite easy to "solve" if you have a clear idea of what the final thing should look like.
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Tadashi is AMAZING!!! I <3 his youtube channel.
Yeah, I looked at the CP and it seems pretty straight forward. I might give it a try at some point.
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I must admit I have VERY little patience for long origami vids. I end up skipping and pausing, preferring to work out the steps in between myself
DO DO DO.
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Ha me too. The only time I use videos is when I cannot find a diagram or I need to see how a certain fold is done.
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Snap! I much prefer diagrams 
Do you have any origami-in-progress at the moment?
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Made an origami Totoro just because. Also finished 2 "origami fireworks" a 12 piece one and a 24 piece one. I made a bud of Burczyk's Kusudama Versailles which was super pretty and I might finish the entire ball at some point... It just takes sooo many pieces of paper though >.<
But the biggest thing Im working on right now is Jason Ku's Nazgul 8.1... Step 26 is annoying and awkward to fold and giving me a tough time >.<
At some point I will get back to the Ancient Dragon. I got to Step 64 (I think) but I realized you need to make all the pre-folds precise or the model just does not work so I need to start it again... Probably with 40x40 paper.
What about you?
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This is awesome!
I really like how defined things are here, and how.. it graduates in shades, almost. I guess that's the lighting doing its work, but it produces a really nice effect.
I think it's great how it's concave in some parts and.. yeah, smooth in some areas and harsher in others.
Really nice stuff!
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Hmm, spot on E, I love the contrast of spiky and geometric with the smooth curves of the face. Thank you!
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This is such a really nice type of origami - and your symmetry is spot on! I love his eyes, too!
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Thank you! (The symmetry is actually a teensy bit off...but you can't see it too much here 
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Very awesome! I'm a rather large fan of her myself, and getting to meet and hang out with her at the Vancouver convention last year was one of the unexpected highlights of the whole thing. This is the only model by her I haven't figured out yet. I finish the creasing and the corrugation, but I can't get it to sit flat like that. It keeps baling up into a sphere. Maybe I need to use stiffer paper?
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I used watercolour paper and scored it, resulting in a lovely ball-shape. I think wetfolding could definitely help you out there.
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Oh ya! A lovely down-to-earth woman who absolutely adores her son. Very wholesome. Like, Sitcom mom wholesome. Also, her approach to design is really interesting when you watch. She never designs flat, but up in the air and the models are all hollow. Symmetry plays a strong role, and she just seems to caress the paper into shape sometimes. She was working on an ox or something at the dinner we were at, and it was just impressive. My doodling all starts with bases and then tries to fit the subject, whereas because she isn't using bases her approach starts with areas of the paper and how they fit the subject. Incidentally, very much similar to Joseph Wu, a fact they themselves remarked on at a later dinner.
Very interesting stuff.
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THAT'S YOUR FIRST ATTEMPT? OAO
it's truly beautiful and adorable >< You must be proud of what you did there, i mean her (Beth's) origami are stunning yet adorable, but.. so are yours 
still always be a total big fan of yours gab
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You are such a sweetie, all your messages make me smile!
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Aw this is such a sweet origami.
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