Last Thursday, Brian and I drove up to Honoka’a Public Library on the beautiful Hamakua coast for a free class on origami, the art of Japanese paper folding. We read about the class on an awesome local website: Big Island on the Cheap. Coincidentally, we also met one of the website’s founders at the class. The Big Island is a small place!
Our class of eight was taught by Deb Pun Discoe of Aloha Origami. Deb and her husband also have an egg and tea farm nearby.
Our project was pretty involved for this first-time origamist, but Deb was always there to lend a helping hand. We each made two tulips with leaves, a frame to back the tulips (more complicated than it sounds) and a small, scrap-paper box. Here are my efforts:
Pretty good for a beginner, I think. Anyone else do origami? What is your favorite thing to make?
Kate - As if passing notes in school wasn’t enough fun, yours were pretty! How cool is that! Thanks, Sherry
Kate - As if passing notes in school wasn’t enough fun, yours were pretty! How cool is that! Thanks, Sherry
shercahn - I just make the little frogs but used to do the “orgami” letters to pass notes in school. I used to be able to do the box that you blew into to make big, the “jewelry box” type, the trinket box . . . . My cranes never worked out right.