Does anyone do origami?

[fastasleep]

Apart from me?

Am I unutterably sad?

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I used to have the bestest penpal from Japan who would fold all her letters into gorgeous animals and stuff... was fantastic, I used to attempt to do the same back and she'd get a wonky dog or something ...I miss it!

I used to know how to make a swan !
But haven't a clue where to begin now !

I used to a lot a few years ago, but got very frustrated tying to do an animals ark full...do make somersaulting frogs for dd quite often though...keeps her busy for ages (ok, ten mins, but still...)

no but would like to. Can make a mean paper aeroplane tho...

dh can do all sorts of fancy stuff.

keep thinking they would make lovely mobiles.

Any good links? pref for the fairly non technical?

I'm sure I have some links around somewhere...

There's the \link{http://www.monkey.org/~aidan/origami/crane/\crane}

Or a \link{http://dev.origami.com/diagram.cfm\gazzillion billion diagrams!}

used to donkey's years ago! think all my books have been binned/charity shopped. I actually got an origami calendar from Borders last year (you make one thing a day) but couldn't be bothered with it after March!!

MIL does the calendars

I have some books in my room at school for my children to fiddle with. Personally, I am not patient enough to follow the instructions but some children have been clever enough to make impressive figures. I sent one boy home grinning with photocopied instructions and some paper the other day

I HAVE MADE A CRANE!!!!!

I am so proud of myself, it is the first origami I have ever done. aeroplanes aside.

Am having to restrain myself from taking a picture and posting in member profiles. I have always wanted to make an origami crane!

And while bf too

I love mumsnet

thanx there fa.

I've been trying to find an origami cow for ages. I'm sure I have an origami farm set somewhere but I can't find it.

I can make a flapping bird/crane without the instructions though. Have a fewe books which I rescued from the loft a couple of months ago. One of my favourites is a goldfish that you blow ito to inflate.

I have attempted a few deigns but my good old favourite is a chinese water bomb .

Ohhh yeah loved the bomb as a teen great for babysitting bored kids!!

I'm so glad you made a crane thanks to mee filyjonk